Waldorf kindergarten curriculum
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I suggest you get started with watercolor painting, drawing, and bean bag games. The preschool years are recognized to be a special time in the development of the child. For your 5 year old child, we recommend a Kindergarten curriculum (see below). They also have a free kindergarten curriculum plan with a simple schedule of story, activity, art and poetry for each week.
Promethean Press Promethean Press aims to produce valuable aids to Waldorf Teachers in Music, Singing, Speech and Drama, Geometry, Child Development, Anthroposophy and other areas.
The newsletter topics listed below are used to supplement our main six-week units. These are complete weekly guides, with stories, song recordings and verses.
Earthschooling Kristie Burns offers curriculum packages and lessons for grades preschool through 8th grade and high school as well. You’ll find kindergarten and first grade resources available.
Millenial Child Eugene Schwartz’s site has lots of CDs on various topics including each grade, and he offers online conferences by grade.
Simply Waldorfoffers videos from Waldorf educators to and courses to help you on your homeschooling journey. Their natural inclination is to actively explore their physical and social environment. Steiner/Waldorf early childhood programs are typically not-for-profit, as an expression of the free cultural life, and are not based on self-interest or personal gain. Waldorf educators strive to create such conscious, collaborative communities around the children in their care and see their activity as part of a worldwide cultural impulse.
The IASWECE Council members (early childhood educators and trainers from 36 countries) prepared this statement describing what we consider to be the essential characteristics of a Waldorf kindergarten.
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Curriculum
Christopherus Homeschool Resources Donna Simmons is a trained Waldorf teacher and homeschooling Mom.
She offers curriculum for grades 1-5 along with a variety of unit studies, a Kindergarten guide, a very informative Waldorf Curriculum Overview, and audio downloads on various topics. She will re-open her shop in January 2018 with a new pricing structure.
Live Education! publishes curriculum for Waldorf homeschoolers and teachers for grades K-8.
Lovely curriculum book sets for each grade that come with consultation.
All curriculum topics are listed both in chronological order and by season.
I have also created a new Kindergarten Curriculum Booklist, a list of a dozen books which builds upon the "New Preschool Program" above and will give you an excellent Early Childhood library!
WELCOME! I’m Jean, a longtime homeschooler and mother of three. Not purely Waldorf (lessons are not set up in main lesson blocks), but influenced by Waldorf.
Curriculum Support
Art of Homeschooling This is my (Jean Miller’s) website where I offer inspiration through my podcast, blog posts, and a newsletter.
It includes an understanding of the unfolding development of the child from pre-birth to seven, including the unique significance of the development of walking, speaking and thinking in the first three years of life.
Activities in Waldorf early childhood education take into consideration the age-specific developmental needs of young children, from a focus on will-oriented physical activity in the first three years, then on imaginative play in the middle years of early childhood, and later a more cognitive approach to learning after the child enters school.
Educational Principles
Waldorf based programs may differ according to geography, culture, group size, age-range, and individual teaching approach.
The website has a handy search feature.
Rudolf Steiner Audio Offers MP3s and zip files of many books and lectures by Rudolf Steiner all for free to download or listen to on your computer.
Rudolf Steiner Archive Steiner’s lectures, books, and articles can be read here online as well as summaries of his books.
Associations & Publications
Why Waldorf Works “Everything You Need to Know About Waldorf Education” This is the new AWSNA site, the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America.
Anthroposophical Society in America The Rudolf Steiner Library, founded in 1928, is the lending and mail-order library of the Anthroposophical Society (click on Rudolf Steiner Library in menu).
Society members automatically receive library membership at no additional charge. Plus a super supportive community. All proceeds from the sale of A Path of Discovery volumes are allocated to legitimate social charitable needs, especially those of poor families and children in 3rd world countries such as Nepal or to send children of successful asylum seekers or other children of destitute families, to Steiner-Waldorf (inspired) schools.
Waldorf Essentials Melisa Nielsen is a Waldorf homeschooling parent who offers curriculum and support for grades 1-7 and an Early Years program.
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Newsletter Topics by Season They offer a few books of stories and songs and puppet-making kits.
Juniper Tree Puppets is a resource for puppetry and storytelling arts, exploring the art and archetype, the magic and meaning, the wisdom and healing of story and ensouled puppetry.