Book Box #3

Curriculum Overview (Grades 1 through 8+)

Towards Creative Teaching
ed. Martyn Rawson

The Educational Tasks and Content of the
Steiner Waldorf Curriculum
ed. Martyn Rawson

Teaching as a Lively Art
Marjorie Spock

School as a Journey
Torin Finser

Waldorf Education: A Family Guide
ed. Pamela Fenner

AWSNA Curriculum Chart (large)
ed. David Mitchell




Curriculum (Grades 1 and 2)

A Path of Discovery Volume 1: Grade 1
Eric Fairman

A Path of Discovery Volume 2: Grade 2
Eric Fairman

Putting the Heart Back Into Teaching
Stanford Maher


Eugene Schwartz’s notes
• First Grade Curriculum
http://knol.google.com/k/eugene-schwartz/the-waldorf-curriculum-grade-one/110mw7eus832b/17#

• Second Grade Curriculum
http://knol.google.com/k/eugene-schwartz/the-waldorf-curriculum-grade-two/110mw7eus832b/18#


Live Education Sample Lessons
(organized by grade level)
http://www.waldorfcurriculum.com/Curric/lower_resources.html




Form Drawing

Form Drawing: Grades One through Four
Laura Embrey-Stine
Ernst Schuberth

Form Drawing for Beginners
Donna Simmons

Form Drawing
Hans Niederhäuser
Margaret Frohlich

The “Write” Approach Book 1: Form Drawing for Better Handwriting
Joen Gladich and Paula Sassi

Creative Form Drawing: Workbook 1
Rudolf Kutzli

Creative Form Drawing: Workbook 2
Rudolf Kutzli

Looking Forward: Games, rhymes and exercises to help children develop their learning abilities
Molly von Heider

Beginning with Form Drawing
Live Education!
http://www.live-education.com/Curriculum/FirstGrade




Mathematics

A Steiner-Waldorf Mathematic Resource
Eric Fairman
(best for lesson prep)

Teaching Mathematics in Rudolf Steiner Schools
Ron Jarmon
(best for assessment)

Teaching Mathematics
Roy Wilkinson

Active Arithmetic! Movement and Mathematics Teaching in the Lower Grades of a Waldorf School
Henning Andersen

Math Lessons for Elementary Grades
Dorothy Harrer

Teaching Mathematics for First and Second Grades in Waldorf Schools
Ernst Schuberth

Mathematics for Waldorf Homeschoolers Grades 1-3
Barbara Dewey
http://www.waldorfwithoutwalls.com/books/

Henri Matisse, Pianist and Checker Players, 1924
National Gallery of Art
(patterns)




Science

From Nature Stories to Natural Science
Donna Simmons

Science As Phenomena
Barbara Dewey
http://www.waldorfwithoutwalls.com/books/




Handwriting & Alphabet

Teaching Children Handwriting
Audrey McAllen

The “Write” Approach Book 2: Form Drawing for Better Handwriting
Joen Gladich and Paula Sassi

Soul Development Through Handwriting: The Waldorf Approach to the Vimala Alphabet
Jennifer Crebbin

The Wise Enchanter: A Journey through the Alphabet
Shelley Davidow
(best for presenting the alphabet the Waldorf way to a child who learned it traditionally)

Miscellany
Roy Wilkinson
(“The Alphabet” p.10)

Waldorf Reading for Homeschoolers
Barbara Dewey
http://www.waldorfwithoutwalls.com/books/
(gives a specific order to teaching the letters with Grimm’s fairy tale suggestions)

LMNOP and All the Letters A to Z
Howard Schrager

LMNOP alphabet wall cards
http://www.threesisterstoys.com/p-1011-lmnop-wall-cards.aspx
(a CD is also available)

Pigs from A to Z
Arthur Geisert




Grammar

An English Manual for the Elementary School
Dorothy Harrer

Teaching English
Roy Wilkinson




Eurythmy

Eurythmy for the Elementary Grades
Francine Adams

Leaving Room for the Angels: Eurythmy and the Art of Teaching
Reg Down

Come Unto These Yellow Sands
Molly von Heider




Teacher Resources

A Handbook for Waldorf Class Teachers
Kevin Avison

Resource Guide for Waldorf Teachers
David Mitchell
(booklists to prepare for each block – helpful but you may find you buy too much)

The Foundations of Human Experience
Rudolf Steiner
Lectures: 1919

Practical Advice to Teachers
Rudolf Steiner
Lectures: 1919

Discussions with Teachers
Rudolf Steiner
Lectures: 1919

The Renewal of Education
Rudolf Steiner
Lectures: 1920

The Kingdom of Childhood
Rudolf Steiner
Lectures: 1924


Bookstore at Rudolf Steiner College catalogue:
Download here: http://www.steinercollege.edu/?q=node/151




Teaching Challenges

Phonic Rhyme Time: A unique collection of phonic rhymes for precise practice in speaking and reading
Mary Nash-Wortham

Take Time: Movement exercises for parents, teachers and therapists of children with difficulties in speaking, reading, writing and spelling
Mary Nash-Wortham
Jean Hunt

Resource Teacher’s Developmental Exercise Manual
Association for a Healing Education

Sleep: An unobserved element in education
Audrey McAllen

The Extra Lesson: Movement, Drawing, and Painting Exercises to Help Children with Difficulties in Writing, Reading and Arithmetic
Audrey McAllen

Difficult Children: There is no such thing
Henning Köhler

Working with Anxious, Nervous, and Depressed Children: A spiritual perspective to guide parents
Henning Köhler

Why Children Don’t Listen: A guide for parents and teachers
Monika Kiel-Hinrichsen

Book Box #2

Drawing

Coloring with Block Crayons
Sieglinde de Francesca

Drawing with Your Four to Eleven Year Old
Donna Simmons

Drawing Simple Animal Forms
Live Education!
http://www.live-education.com/Curriculum/SecondGrade




Painting

Painting in Waldorf Education
Dick Bruin and Attie Lichthart

The Waldorf School Calendar 2008
published annually by the Chicago Waldorf School
http://www.chicagowaldorf.org/store/index.php

How to Do Wet-on-Wet Watercolor Painting And Teach It to Children
Rauld Russell

A good evaluation of the Waldorf painting books that are out there, plus a link to purchase Rauld Russell’s book through Marsha Johnson: http://theparentingpassageway.com/2009/02/02/resources-for-wet-on-wet-watercolor-painting/




Modeling

Learning About the World through Modeling
Arthur Auer

Educating the Will
Michael Howard



Four Seasons/Four Elements

Earth Water Fire and Air: Playful explorations in the four elements
Walter Kraul

Autumn: Nature Activities for Children
Irmgard Kutsch

Winter: Nature Activities for Children
Irmgard Kutsch

Spring: Nature Activities for Children
Irmgard Kutsch

Summer: Nature Activities for Children
Irmgard Kutsch

Sunflower Houses
Sharon Lovejoy

Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots
Sharon Lovejoy




Poetry Collections

Journey through Time in Verse and Rhyme
Heather Thomas

Poems and Speech Exercises for Grades I & II
ed. John Miles
Promethean Press
http://www.prometheanpress.com/

Around the Year
Elsa Beskow

Treasury of Children’s Poetry
ed. Alison Sage

Talking Like the Rain
ed. X. J. Kennedy

Poetry of Earth
ed. Adrienne Adams

A note about BookFinder.com:
Lists all books by an author including co-authors and alternates
http://www.bookfinder.com/author/adrienne-adams/




Fairy Tales and Folktales

The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales
ISBN 0-394-70930-6
(Pantheon edition, most often referred to in the Waldorf teaching of the alphabet)

The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
Roy Wilkinson

Favorite Folktales from Around the World
ed. Jane Yolen

Magic Wool
Dagmar Schmidt
(flat wool pictures)

Making Magical Fairy-Tale Puppets
Christel Dhom
(needle felted puppets and mobiles)

Rose Windows and How to Make Them
Helga Meyerbröker
(Star-Thalen p.54)

Find authentic fairy tales in the nonfiction section of your library -- check 398 in the Dewey Decimal System




Fables

Aesop’s Fables
Ann McGovern

The Fables of Aesop
ed. Joseph Jacobs

The Fox that Wanted Nine Golden Tails
Mary Knight

Borrowed Feathers: and other fables
ed. Bryna Stevens

Lights Along the Path
Rebecca Schacht




Native American Legends

Tales from the Igloo
ed. Maurice Metayer




Story Collections

Nature Stories
Margaret Peckham

One, Two, Three!
David Adams

Verses and Poems and Stories to Tell
Dorothy Harrer

The Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book
Isabel Wyatt

The Book of Fairy Princes
Isabel Wyatt

King Beetle-Tamer
Isabel Wyatt

Puck the Gnome
Jakob Streit

The Festival of Stones
Reg Down

Big-Stamp Two-Toes the Barefoot Giant
Reg Down

The Magic Knot & Other Tangles
Reg Down




Books of Plays

Plays for Grades One through Four
Michael Hedley Burton

25 Plays Inspired by Waldorf Teachers
David Mitchell

Let’s Do a Play!
Colin Price

Book Box #1

Knitting/Handwork

Kids Knitting
Melanie Falick

Will-Developed Intelligence
David Mitchell

The Children’s Year
Stephanie Cooper, et al.

Zen and the Art of Knitting
Bernadette Murphy

Red Berry Wool
Robyn Eversole

Just Hats
ed. Nancy Thomas

A First Book of Knitting for Children
Bonnie Gosse and Jill Allerton

Knitting for Children: A Second Book
Bonnie Gosse and Jill Allerton

Knitted Animals
Anne-Dorthe Grigaff

Knitted Toys
Zoë Mellor
(gingerbread man p.69)

Simply Felt
Margaret Docherty

Feltmaking and Wool Magic
Jorie Johnson

Making Waldorf Dolls
Maricristin Sealey

Kids Crochet
Kelli Ronci

Living Crafts magazine (Summer 2008)
http://www.livingcrafts.com/




Festivals

Festivals Together
Sue Fitzjohn, et al.

The ECOlogical Calendar 2009
ISBN 978-0-7649-4438-3
www.ecocalendar.info

The Nature Corner
M v Leeuwen & J Moeskops

Let’s Sing and Celebrate!
Colin Price

Crafts through the Year
Thomas and Petra Berger

Festivals Family and Food
Diana Carey

The Easter Craft Book
Thomas and Petra Berger

Our Eight Nights of Hanukkah
Michael Rosen

Seven Spools of Thread
Angela Shelf Medearis

Who Is Coming to Our House?
Joseph Slate

Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
illus. Adrienne Adams

Cat in the Manger
Michael Foreman

The Last Straw
Frederick Thury

The Little Troll
Thomas Berger
(legend for Advent)

The Donkey’s Dream
Barbara Helen Berger

Five Plays for Waldorf Festivals
Richard Moore

Festivals with Children
Brigitte Barz

Stories for the Festivals of the Year
Irene Johanson




Saints and Virtuous People

Saints and Heroes
Donna Simmons

The Legend of Saint Nicholas
Demi

Saint Nicholas
Jakob Streit

Saint George and the Dragon
Margaret Hodges

Saints: A Year in Faith and Art
Rosa Giorgi

Saints in Art
Rosa Giorgi

A Calendar of Saints
James Bentley

One Hundred Saints
ISBN 0-8212-2816-1

Stories of the Saints
Siegwart Knijpenga

One Dark and Stormy Night
John Ryan

I Once Was a Monkey: Stories Buddha Told
Jeanne Lee

Kindness: A Treasury of Buddhist Wisdom for Children and Parents
Sarah Conover

If You Have Two Loaves of Bread, Sell One and Buy a Lily: And Other Proverbs of China
Guy Zona

All Year Round
Ann Druitt, et al.

The Key of the Kingdom
ed. Elisabeth Gmeyner

Bringing Waldorf Home conference

The four posts that follow will be the contents of ONE of the TWO handouts that I passed out today at the workshop. It lists every book I brought with me to the conference for people to peruse. The first italicized first book in a category refers to the book I recommend if people are on a limited budget and can only buy one book for a subject and wish to know which book is the best overall resource. However, different books work for different people which is why I brought so many for folks to drool over. :-) It cost $65 for me to photocopy all the resources I handed out today. But we had an awesome time and I hope people really left with something in their hands that was concrete and doable, as well as some inspiration in their hearts!!! We wrote up a 9 month curriculum plan for the 1st and 2nd grade years, did some practice drawing exercises with beeswax crayons as well as a main lesson book illustration for R (Rumpelstiltskin), did the first form drawing lesson (straight line and curve) for 1st grade and some mirrored forms (traced in cornmeal on a paper plate) for 2nd grade, modeled little mice with beeswax, practiced mixing two yellows, two reds, or two blues to find the true colors, then did a color story (When Red Comes to Play) for 1st grade and a painting of a mouse in a meadow for 2nd grade, practiced a rhythmical times table exercise with beanbags, and then we ran out of time! I passed out the dowels to make knitting needles but we didn't have time to make them in the session.

Grand Junction CO

There is a Waldorf initiative in Grand Junction, CO!!!

I just found this out 30 seconds ago when I was on Christopherus for something and saw a quote from someone that said, Thank you for coming to Grand Junction, CO. I googled it and found River Canyon School. This struck me so deeply because I am flying into Grand Junction on September 4th since I'm spending Labor Day weekend in Moab. How funny! I wonder if any Waldorf families from that area read this blog?

Notes on Grammar: Class 2

So I thought I would explain a little bit about what I meant by my generic heading "Grammar" for December in Second Grade. Here is what is presented. The greater bulk of an intro to Grammar happens in Third Grade. Live Education has a wonderful book on it, combining the subject with the Old Testament Stories.

Second Grade Grammar Notes

• lowercase letters


• simple capitalization - beginning of a sentence, I


• simple punctuation - full stop


• simple parts of speech - name words in blue, doing words in red, how words in orange, picturing words in green


• Teaching English by Roy Wilkinson


• An English Manual for the Elementary School by Dorothy Harrer

Mentha x piperita

In other Mouse Repellent News, I have recently discovered that mice hate mint. Simply use Peppermint Essential Oilto repel them. In places Mouse Radio cannot reach -- such as the drawer under my stove in which I keep my muffin pans -- I am placing cotton balls scented with peppermint.

A note: I looked this up online before posting the suggestion and reviews are mixed on whether Peppermint essential oil is safe for use in the first few months of pregnancy. If you are pregnant, please do your own research on this and make your own determination before you try it as a mouse repellent!