Waldorf Skills and Goals for Classes

Overview of Skills and Goals:

http://www.waldorfschoolofcapecod.org/documents/SkillGoals.pdf

Maths games

We've got a whiteboard (not exactly Waldorf but great for quick games etc). Today we did some magic number square games such as you have 1, 2, 3 and 4 and have to arrange them in a 4 by 4 grid but only one can be on each row, column or diagonal and they must add up to 10, no repititions etc.

We also did some maths whereby each number is substituted by fruit or an animal. For example,
1 = banana
2 = cherry
3 = apple
4 = pineapple

So then you put some sums up e.g. banana + cherry = (answer is apple)

We did this for all the numbers up to twenty so I had to be careful the answer was within 1 to 20. Springy thought this was marvellous and keeps asking for more sums.

Christmas 2009

We had a lovely Christmas so far. We didn't put the decorations up until Christmas Eve which worked really well. We had springy's Birthday and C's birthday as well.

Springy had a number of birthday playdates. We made gingerbread, decorations and so on.

N came round for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and yesterday too. We had some old films to watch like The King and I and Singing in the Rain which was nice.

I just finished sewing up a third gnome sleeping bag from the Wee Folk Art pattern I've been using. The first was a present for Springy for Christmas. I think she wants me to go into fullscale production for each and everyone of her little toys but I think three is enough for now.

Springy had a Brer Rabbit story last night. I'm going to read it to her again later and then tomorrow I'm hoping she will do a picture and a summary.

Planetarium - Star of Bethlehem

We went to see the Star of Bethlehem show at the local planetarium. It was well done and there were lots of "oohs" from Springy. The bit I think she liked best was when they projected an image of Orion over his constellation.

Pony Morning at the Stables

Happy Birthday C.

Springy had a stable morning today for her Christmas present. She got to learn about hay bags and managed to canter for the first time (she said it hurts and made her feel a bit sick). She also had a go with a hoof pick and groomed Yogie (the pony she borrowed).

December 2009

St Nicholas is going to be our theme this month because we're doing Class 2 Steiner Waldorf in our approach anyway.

http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=437

St Nicholas stories in the Waldorf tradition

Today's story - The Fir Tree

Tonight Springy had the story of The Fir Tree (my voice is a little better but the trees all had nasal congestion). ;) We've been making a few Christmas decorations (with tissue paper - sort of stained glass window effect) ready for Sunday.