This can now be found at www.Earthschooling.com
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Organization and the Temperaments
NEW! Organization for Homeschoolers AND Organization and the Temperaments
DVD Download-7.50
A free E-Book with charts & organizational ideas comes with this set of TWO lectures. "Organization and the Temperaments" is a 45-minute lecture given at the Eastern Iowa Homeschool Conference in April 2008. The second part of the video shows scenes and details from around the home.
DVD Download-7.50
A free E-Book with charts & organizational ideas comes with this set of TWO lectures. "Organization and the Temperaments" is a 45-minute lecture given at the Eastern Iowa Homeschool Conference in April 2008. The second part of the video shows scenes and details from around the home.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
The Un-Planned Waldorf Enrichment Day
I had so many plans for today but the best parts of the day turned out to be the things I had not planned at all! 
We took a nature walk on the drippy muddy trail and discovered patches of clover, a tulip getting ready to bloom and some daffodils by the creek. We discovered that the water sounded gentle in one area of the creek but it sounded much louder in the area where it was running faster. We all had a pair of binoculars and we saw a Goldfinch, a Robin and a Bluejay! G said, "I can always tell what a bird is before I see it because they always say their names. Like a hawk says "haaaawk! haaaaawk! and a blue jay says "Jaaaay! Jaaaaay!" I thought that was wonderful!
When we came home from the walk we got out the block crayons and colored pencils to draw and color. However, we ended up spending just as much time reading the German names of the colors on the Lyra pencil set and enjoying the different sounds of the language...
After lunch we were going to do some theater and storytelling but then the kids saw my "magic trunk" in the corner (a trunk where I keep a bunch of wooden magic set props that I have collected over the years) and we ended up learning how to use all the tricks in the box and giving shows to each other for 2 hours! Towards the end Sweetie Pie (the bunny) got a little too curious and almost ended up in a magic trick but she was too quick for the magician's hat - LOL! So she ate some leftover apple peels from snack time instead...
So I end the day feeling like I've just been 7-years-old again :) What fun!
Hope you all your schedule changes were joyful surprises today too!
Blessings & Health,
Kristie
May Lesson Plan E-Book Ready for Download
The May E-book has been organized and is ready for download. This 200-page E-book contains Waldorf lesson plans for ages 3-11 Preschool through 4th grade and includes membership in the Waldorf School Online and free consulting. The book is indexed and has sections for each age group for verses, crafts, stories & lessons. Although I have been using these plans for years (and adding to them every year), creating E-books from these plans, stories and verses has been a wonderful opportunity for me to re-explore the material.
And May is one of my favorite months! So many of my favorite activities are in May - so many activities with flowers including a guide to edible flowers and what to make with them, ideas for Mayday and Mother's Day, Soapmaking for all the ages, some adorable beginning and advanced crochet patterns, extra Spanish verses and stories for Cinco de Mayo, some original form drawing stories, skills for beeswax crayons and so much more.
And my favorite part - Lessons, verses, crafts AND a planning guide for MAYFAIR! (The guide can help you plan for 1 person or 100 people!)
And of course, the May Lesson Plans have always (and will always) include:
MP3s of all verses
3 Video Tutorials
3 Original Watercolor Stories by Kristie Karima Burns
Sixth Sense Math Lessons & Sixth Sense Writing & Reading Lessons
Vintage Book Selections Online from my own personal library
Come join us for May!
Blessings & Health,
Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Earth Day - Green Watercoloring & Picnics
What a wonderful Earth Day! It is our second "real" day of spring this year - so we brought our classroom outside and snacktime too! We decided to see what we could do with just the color green and just enjoyed the sun!
Monday, April 21, 2008
How to Tune Your Kinder Harp (Pentatonic Lyre)
This can now be found at:
http://earthschooling.info/thebearthinstitute/?page_id=1373
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