Episode 47 Hi, I’m Jean, and I’m an overthinker! You too? Welcome to Overthinkers Anonymous. Ha. I totally made that up you know! But here’s my observation ~ many of us homeschoolers tend to get stuck in…
Episode 43 Welcome to Episode 43 of the Art of Homeschooling podcast! Today, we’re talking about the top 10 lessons from Steiner’s 1919 Seminar Course for the first Waldorf teachers and applying them to homeschooling, Rudolf Steiner,…
Episode 41 Fourteen years ago, a small but spirited group of parents gathered in central Ohio at Barbara Dewey’s Taproot farm for the first ever Taproot Teacher Training for Homeschoolers. At the end of that long weekend…
How do you start Waldorf homeschooling? Where do you even begin? Perhaps you’ve been at this awhile but you’re about to start a new Waldorf homeschooling year. Here are 5 tips you should know when you start…
Read about the connections between the first Waldorf school and homeschooling. A school that opened its doors 100 years ago! This post is an excerpt from the handbook inside Homeschool Simplicity 101. This collection of a guidebook…
This is just a small collection of the snapshots of Taproot Teacher Trainings gone by. 2024 will mark the 18th year we will gather a group of amazingly wonderful Waldorf homeschoolers for a 4-day weekend of living…
What is the Waldorf curriculum exactly? Have you ever wondered what homeschooling curriculum to buy? Then spent hours, days, or even months researching and comparing? Only to believe that you’re done thinking about curriculum once you make…
Over the past few years, I’ve received lots of questions about Waldorf homeschooling from parents just like you. Perhaps your questions are similar. Here are the top 5 FAQs about Waldorf homeschooling that are sent my way….
Main lesson books are where children record their learning. In the Waldorf approach, children create their own book of what they learn during each 3 to 6 week main lesson block. Here is how to make a…
Last August, at the annual Taproot Teacher Training, my friend Alison and I led off our workshop for grades 3 & 4 by saying: “you can plan a main lesson block around a single book.” Our homeschooling…
