Since I began my homeschooling journey a couple of years ago when I first entertained the idea, I keep coming back to Waldorf ideas. I think that as we finish up our first 'official' year homeschooling I'm ready to make a move towards more consciously adding in some more Waldorf elements.
For those of you that do Waldorf homeschooling, where's a good place to begin (in terms of resources...we already do celebrations, Nature Tables, etc)? I have a 5.5yo who is finishing up Kindy and a 4yo who is in pre-K (K in the Autumn). We also have a 3 mo baby.
*What books do you recommend to get us started?
*Web sites that you frequent? (I've found some GREAT blogs especially regarding Nature Tables!)
*Do you have a community that you can share all things Waldorf with (I mean a IRL one that can do plays, celebrations, etc)? How did you establish that?
*Ideas for enriching our celebrations? Actually, I'd maybe like to see an thread here about sharing celebration ideas! Is there one that I missed?
*Any thoughts about Waldorf distance learning?
*Music resources? I'm a musician myself and taught music at a very outdoorsy, child-led school for years so you'd think I'd KNOW, but I'm a bit at a loss with my kids. I need books of simple songs to sing with my kids (I do use our Episcopal Hymnal sometimes)
Also, any thoughts about integrating Waldorf beyond the Mamma-kids daytime activities? We've established a nice calm routine during the day, but things seem to get hectic when Dadda gets home and on the weekends. We're trying to ritualize bedtime and we already do some mealtime rituals (we begin our mealtime conversation by each thanking God for something), but I'd love thoughts about making the whole family/home more Waldorf, to the extent that we bring our own Waldorf-ness with us when we're out and about. Does that make sense? Hope so.
Thanks, wonderful MDC mammas.
For those of you that do Waldorf homeschooling, where's a good place to begin (in terms of resources...we already do celebrations, Nature Tables, etc)? I have a 5.5yo who is finishing up Kindy and a 4yo who is in pre-K (K in the Autumn). We also have a 3 mo baby.
*What books do you recommend to get us started?
*Web sites that you frequent? (I've found some GREAT blogs especially regarding Nature Tables!)
*Do you have a community that you can share all things Waldorf with (I mean a IRL one that can do plays, celebrations, etc)? How did you establish that?
*Ideas for enriching our celebrations? Actually, I'd maybe like to see an thread here about sharing celebration ideas! Is there one that I missed?
*Any thoughts about Waldorf distance learning?
*Music resources? I'm a musician myself and taught music at a very outdoorsy, child-led school for years so you'd think I'd KNOW, but I'm a bit at a loss with my kids. I need books of simple songs to sing with my kids (I do use our Episcopal Hymnal sometimes)
Also, any thoughts about integrating Waldorf beyond the Mamma-kids daytime activities? We've established a nice calm routine during the day, but things seem to get hectic when Dadda gets home and on the weekends. We're trying to ritualize bedtime and we already do some mealtime rituals (we begin our mealtime conversation by each thanking God for something), but I'd love thoughts about making the whole family/home more Waldorf, to the extent that we bring our own Waldorf-ness with us when we're out and about. Does that make sense? Hope so.
Thanks, wonderful MDC mammas.
