Tomato tulips

Springy and I have been creating some tomato tulips, radish lotuses and we made some milk jelly with pears.

Music in September

We've been doing quite a bit of music.

I've also found this resource which I have ordered:
http://homemusicmaking.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-product-is-here-waldorf-autumn.html


We've been playing and singing the sample song together with Springy doing the singing, learning the words off by heart and me playing the guitar to accompany her.  We left a message on her grandparents' answering machine the other afternoon as a surprise for them to come back to.

Here are the words (which are found in quite a few Waldorf resources - don't know who to credit with authorship):

"Yellow the bracken, golden the sheaves, rosy the apples, crimson the leaves, mist on the hillside, clouds grey and white, Autumn good morning, Summer good night."

September and what we've been doing

We've been utilising the Christopherus Second grade curriculum as our scaffolding.  Although Springy would be in Third Grade I feel that because we deviated from the traditional Waldorf curriculum last year that I want to back track a bit and go over things until January. 

We've started with a mini maths block and have been using Four in a Row maths games.  Springy has done some lovely pictures in her Main Lesson book so far including squirrels for maths (as outlined in Christopherus). 

The Christopherus package is quite pricey but the plus side is I enjoy the way Donna Simmons writes.  She's like a warm cup of cocoa with her words - comforting and friendly.  The downside is there is still quite a lot of working out to do at times and I wish the material were all together, rather in separate books at times as there is quite a bit of fiddling back and forth.  That said, I'm beginning to understand more on Waldorf again to the Class/Grades approach.

Flying the kite - Autumn 2010

Springy has done some maths in her Magic Book (main lesson type thing), and flown her Indonesian owl kite whilst we were walking L this morning. She is now outside having fun flying her kite on the dog lead as we have some gusty south-westerly wind today.