Teaching Handwork

so my older daughter is in charge of the nature table in her class this week...its her class chore.....well, along comes Handwork mommy all ...

I have 4 children in the 1st grade who are about to start their 6th project...fast knitters!!!!! we will be making a rainbow ball 14 stitch...

"puppet show is starting".....bell sounds....."take your seats everyone"

So during our 9 week fine arts block I have been really enjoying working with the 7th grade. This has to be one of my favorite classes. The...

take part in this...its important! I feel good that our school and my home is able to really live into this week we are having our bi annual...

This was the painting we did this week. I brought in organic apples and had them paint an apple hanging from a tree. we started with paintin...

So this is what we did...in truth this was our first time. So the girls and I cleaned up the house on Saturday morning and we collected all ...

this is the time to visit phoenix. everything is growing, the farmers market is full of fresh goodies and our own garden is getting ready to...

I am playing catch up at the moment. I posted about 4 times yesterday with thoughts I want to share. I don't have the chance during the...

So for next year we will be making paper for our Handwork lesson books 3rd will make them because they are making all sorts of stuff in the ...

Its time for the next party So we are making invites because my older princess is turning 8!!!!! we were also practicing making the party cr...

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Here in Phoenix it is not uncommon to see parakeets and parrots flying around and landing in your tree or hanging out on phone lines. So for...

So after having Eugene Schwartz in town and hearing how he thought that not only the lower grades should use Block crayons but also the uppe...

at the moment this is my display case. It changes every week because as children finish projects they put them in display case and take them...

What a great speaker...really interesting stuff. What I took from the lecture was that we need to bring more art into our schools. more app...

We also have Eugene Schwartz here this week and he is speaking to our community and giving advice (guidance) to our faculty. Here is a small...

I just ran across this U tubes video of Eurythmy at the Green Meadow waldorf school. The first teacher was our Eurythmy teacher during our ...

So today we got our penpal letters from the waldorf school in Cape town south Africa. It is wonderful to see how 8th graders are all the sam...

Would this be too much for 8th grade? its kind of personal.... http://www.goods4girls.org/ I can hear the conversation parent -"so what...