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The Steiner Cafe at artofhomeschooling.com

Remembering & Forgetting + the Twelve Senses

Here we are with Lecture Eight from The Foundations of Human Experience, the morning lecture which Steiner gave to the first Waldorf teachers on the morning of August 29, 1919. Two topics emerge: how to work with remembering and forgetting (hint: sleep), and the twelve senses. First, Steiner’s ideas about remembering and forgetting. I think back…

Plan to Eat

Family Dinners

Here at our house, we honor dinnertime as a special family gathering. While I hold this value in my heart, I’ve not always felt inspired or organized with what to make for the meal! This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience. Click here if you want to read my full disclosure policy. Enter…

The Lantern Festival Overview

 Festivals The festival is a celebration of life. Each festival is a mood and an experience, a social expression reflecting the season. Celebrating festivals together is a great way to build a sense of community within our families or with a larger group of friends. “Celebrating festivals illuminates our life on earth with heavenly meaning…

Sample Page: Specials

Specials In Waldorf education, the “Specials” refer to the activities outside of the main lesson blocks. This includes both the before lesson activities – such as songs, verses, movement, and form drawing– as well as late morning or afternoon activities – such as recorder and handwork. Begin slowly with these specials, and you will gradually find ways of…

Reflections on Steiner's lectures to teachers at the Steiner Cafe

Speech, Temperaments, Misbehavior

Steiner discusses all three of these topics on Day Five in his Discussions with Teachers: speech, temperaments, and misbehavior. We want to “cultivate clear articulation” through constant practice to make our speech organs flexible. Rudolf Steiner asks Mrs. Steiner to say certain sentences artistically first (they are tongue twisters and sentences without any real meaning)…

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The Temperaments

“Now it is really very important, particularly for those who want to work as teachers, to get rid of the habit of unnecessary criticism…it is not a question of always trying to improve on what has already been done. A thing can be good in a variety of ways.” Rudolf Steiner spoke these words to…