Early elementary math roundup! I'm cleaning out our cupboards and thought I'd share the math resources I used in our earlier years, grades one through three. They are pretty basic and except for a few books that I purchased used, we had all the supplies in the house already. Math in the first three years … Continue reading Early Elementary Math Resources
"You can see that a great deal must be incorporated into teaching geography, so that it can become a kind of summary of everything else we do with children." Rudolf Steiner Lecture 11, Practical Advice to Teachers. Planning our geography block has been such a rewarding experience. I thought that Norse Mythology was my favourite … Continue reading Geography – From here to there…
I recently had a fellow homeschooling mom message me on Instagram to ask why I never share our daily main lesson pages. I told her we actually only do a main lesson page once a week (depending on the topic). She was shocked! Was that even allowed?? Everyone she knew did daily pages. At first, … Continue reading There Are No Rules
We are on our fourth day of the first day of back to home school. Did you catch that? LOL Someone out there, please tell me we aren't the only family off to a rough start! Things just haven't gone as planned and while we followed as close a rhythm as we could, Dr's appointments, … Continue reading False Starts
For years bringing watercolour painting to the children felt stressful. I didn't feel equipped or in possession of enough talent to actually teach my children to paint. I didn't have a deep enough relationship to colour to help them build their own relationship to colour. I felt I was muddling through. Until finally, at the … Continue reading Experiencing Colour
This morning's lessons were full of laughter, action and giggles. They practiced songs and rhythms for tomorrow's co-op day and we read through some stories, which they proceeded to act out when we were "supposed" to be picking one to present to the group. While my first instinct is to rein it in and get … Continue reading Not the Plan. Better.
I've been waking with the sun these last few weeks. Not by choice, as I tried my hardest to go back to sleep again, ha ha. 5am is early! But this last week I've pledged to go with it and see why the day is calling me so early. I have been spending this extra … Continue reading Warmth by Edmond Schoorel
"A complete change seems to have come over his feelings as though he has lost their protection of the imaginative world projected outside himself, as though he suddenly, seeing it's worst side, experiences the world as a hostile place. ... The child has become critical. The people he respected most and who had been placed … Continue reading Phases of Childhood
Still working on weights, and this week's lesson wer so much fun! The children expanded on last week's experience with weighing things by hand by creating a hanging scale so they could see if each side was of equal weight based on the balance of each side of the scale. They collected materials from around … Continue reading Weight Block Continued
We started our second measurement block, weight, this week after a month away for some play with words. To start this block we reviewed linear measurement (you can find a glimpse of it HERE) and continued our story of the King who just wanted everyone to bring him things as he expected 😂. Poor king, … Continue reading Measurement Block Two
