My fav song these days

I just love this song...it makes me smile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYhrYHmUPn0

last strech of the year

our school garden
basic waldorf style desks and chairs....European.....that's all I know about them
one of our 4 goats
Ester our sheep....not good wool for carding....boo hoo!
My younger daughter looking through the fence at our school pond where baby ducks are swimming

my daughter at school
our school bio dynamic garden

For anyone who teaches yoga or does yoga

You might enjoy this

3rd grade mainlesson pics and Lunch time

Homework drawing of our house
Some native american story about killing a deer....I need to ask her what the story was again


I make the same lunch for both my girls....But here is a sample of the kind of lunch I send them with.
We use only containers that can be reused....metal water bottle, cloth sandwich wraps, plastic, glass or metal food containers and a cloth lunch bag.......ALL these things help with saving the environment.

easter felting workshop

I put on a felting workshop to help pay for my teacher training at sunbridge this summer. I had 11 ladies join me.....

here are some pics from last Saturday

Hawaii......ahhhhhh......so much to plan.....

....it's a lot to organize in a very short amount of time.....Plus I have finals....plus I have ten curriculums I have to keep all organized in my brain..... Plus I have to keep up being a good attentive mommy and wife!

Here is a song that we will play at their graduation.....it sums up the wonderful years they have had at school here and their final trip

Been so busy!

we only have 6 more weeks of school!
Busy bees over here

Rituals

Rhyme, Rituals, Routine...what ever you want to call it
I like this site ...good ideas
http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/ritual.html

While doing my homework I came across this site

If you are teaching math to waldorf 8th graders....you might like this video of solids.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/928529/crazy_paper_cylinder_how_to_make/

the 8th grade and I are going to Hawaii!

So at our school we have tried to form a specialty teacher "guardian" friendship with a chosen grade. I chose to work with 8th grade, the movement teacher works with the 7th grade the upper school Spanish teacher works with the 6th grade etc.

So when the 8th grade is needing extra support or in cases where they are going on a field trip and need extra faculty members....the guardian steps in.

So it's time for the graduating class to go on their class trip.....

we will be camping and swimming with the dolphins and scuba diving, hiking into a volcano etc.....


should be fun.......
we leave in May...................WOW!

medeival games and 8th grade art

8th grade chalk pastel drawings....starry night and starry night over the Rhone Van Gogh


we are hosting the Medieval games this year.....3 schools have come together to take part in this truly amazing event. I have some pics.....again unfortunately I can't show detailed pics without permission from parents.....but I have seen some more pics online if you search under waldorf school Medieval games.
This is a 6th grade event that takes place over 2 days.....truly amazing...the children have been working on doing Knightly things all year and have now been knighted.
The squires listening to their Queen talk in old English
gathering for the games
An event
Sign as you enter our campus
This is a trust game
faculty dressed up in medieval customs and we were either on the royal court or we were serving wenches and lads. it was lots of fun

waldorf 7th grade

Their mainlesson teacher did this chalk board drawing and after 4 days of looking at it they had me for fine arts and in another room they had to paint Africa from memory. I think they turned out very nice.

Ships
our first veil painting

Brunch in the garden and boiling wool

boiled wool for a bag......I will post pics when it is done

the school store set up in the handwork room....its nice hah?

this is my older daughter's main lesson book on display....I am so proud....only 4 books were chosen for display
5th grade display
woodwork display





we had our brunch in the garden today....it was beautiful! we had an auction and music....wow it was great!

my younger daughter's birthday celebration at school

The kinder class birthday celebration is beautiful . All the children wear silks for they are the souls that were with the birthday child in the heavenly garden where the star children live. They were once all together and when she (my daughter) came down to earth with her angel they all said "see you soon down on earth"
I had to use really strong mommy powers not to cry during the story that her teacher told.

I have lots of pics, but I can't show them to you because I don't have permission to show pics of the other kids.
Then we had a wonderful snack all together at their snack table.