What to Plan

Using the schedule I just laid out, that means that my daily planning each day would consist of learning/preparing for the following:

Song to introduce circle time
Movement Verses for circle time
Song for clean up time
Story/Puppetry
Creative Activity
Song for handwashing before snack
Blessing for snack
Verse for closure
Goodbye song

Lots of these you only have to prep once. You don't start from scratch every morning. The songs, once you pick them, stay the same for months at a time. And the story is usually done over and over throughout the week. The Creative Activity is really the only thing that gets prepped each day (and what you'll have for snack).

As a really super-Waldorfy parent you also have a ton of verses up your sleeve for transitions all throughout other parts of the day: for waking up, for going to sleep, for when someone falls down and skins a knee, for when you are walking in the forest and see a little bird, etc. If you're new to Waldorf and despairing of ever memorizing all this stuff, don't be too hard on yourself. The task of memorizing everything can seem really intimidating but if you take it a little bit at a time you learn to memorize fairly quickly. Reading it right before you go to sleep really helps a lot.