Sunday, November 14, 2010

Waldorf Education

I am SO jazzed about adding a Waldorf component to our home school. I've been pulling together resources, and this is what we have so far:



We have the following books by Charles Kovacs, a former Waldorf teacher:

1) Ancient Greece
2) Ancient Rome
3) Parsifal and the Search for the Grail
4) The Age of Revolution
5) The Age of Discovery

Then we have the following from Christopherus , a company that provides Waldorf home schooling materials:

1) Splinters of the Sun, Teaching Russian Literature to High School Students
2) Comedy and Tragedy (which includes Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripdes, Japanese theater, Twelfth Night, Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Raisin in the Sun, etc.)
3) Fairview's Guide to Composition and Essay Writing
4) Painting in Waldorf Education
5) The Ambitious Horse: Ancient Chinese Mathematics Problems

Then we have a couple of library books about the Waldorf method:

1) The Common Vision by David Marshak
2) Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path by Rudolf Steiner

Finally I've ordered about a year's worth of "main lessons" from Live Education , another provider of Waldorf homeschooling materials. Those supplies should be here by the end of the week and include:

1) Beowulf
2) The Kalevala
3) Ancient India
4) The Ancient Culture in Persia
5) Astronomy
6) Nature, Number, and Geometry
7) Wish, Wonder, Surprise -- English Literature and Creative Writing
8) The Sentence Sounds a Melody (English Grammar)

All of these materials lend themselves to holistic, integrated activities that will hopefully appeal and inspire.

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