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Welcome Steiner-Waldorf Education 5 Welcome to our Spring 2017 issue General & Curriculum 6 Child Development 8 Early Years 12 t Floris Books, we pride ourselves on offering a wide range of useful, informative and stimulating books for Steiner-Waldorf teachers and Music & Movement 14 pupils. With our new look catalogue, we aim to bring you even more Festivals, Language 15 helpful resources. A Lower School 18 We have inspiring features on taking education back to basics (p.2) and making maths meaningful (p.37) plus exclusive insights from drama teacher and author Language & Literature 18 Nell Smyth (p.34). We’ve even included some spring picnic recipes (p.10) and activities for all weathers (p.27) for you to try. Stories & Class Readers 22 We hope this catalogue will be a useful resource for every Steiner-Waldorf educator. Mythology & History 27 If you have any questions about our books, email [email protected] or call Religion & Festivals 28 0131 337 2372. If you would like to place an order, use the included order form (p.51), visit our website www.florisbooks.co.uk or order through your local bookshop. Creative Arts 30 Best wishes, Crafts & Activities 32 Music, Handwork 35 Drama 36 Painting & Drawing 38 Katy Lockwood-Holmes, Christian Maclean & the Floris Team Maths 39 Science 41 Upper School 44 Get in touch with Floris School Organisation 46 Indexes 48 We’d love to know what you think about our new look catalogue. If you have any comments, suggestions for future articles, or would like to share your ideas with other Steiner-Waldorf educators, please get in touch with us. We can be found on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and YouTube. Key @FlorisBooks FlorisBooks All books in this catalogue are paperbacks, unless otherwise indicated. Floris Books Floris Books Books also available as eBooks You can also read our blog on the Floris Books website, where we share are marked with this symbol. articles, interviews and extracts from our Steiner-Waldorf books. www.florisbooks.co.uk/blog Please look out for our new and featured books Placeholder text WELCOME | 1 Taking education back to basics Place-based education has a simple proposition: bring education back into the community. In this extract from Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities, David Sobel explores how schools are working with their local areas for the benefit of all.
s you stroll down the halls of to plan the schoolyard garden. Inside, all around the school, and out in the your neighborhood school at in one of the full classrooms, eighth schoolyard and the community, learning nine o’clock on a Wednesday graders are working with second graders in a whole new way. morning, you notice that to teach them about the history of the You don’t have to pinch yourself. Asomething seems odd. Many of the It’s not a dream. Place-based education classrooms are empty, you realize; the “Place-based education is taking root in urban and rural, students are not in their places with is taking root in urban northern and southern, well-to-do and bright, shiny faces. Where are they? If rough-around-the-edges schools and you could cast your gaze out beyond and rural, northern and communities across the country. Take a the school walls, across the community, southern, well-to-do whirlwind tour with me as we drop in you’d find them. In the town wood lot, and rough-around- on some of these happenings. a forester teaches tenth graders which Two recent headlines in the Littleton, trees should be marked for an upcoming the-edges schools and New Hampshire, Courier, paint the thinning project. Downtown, a group communities across the picture: “Using the River as a Textbook” of middle school students are collecting country.” and “The Town Becomes the Classroom.” water samples in an urban stream to Like many small New England cities, determine if there’s enough dissolved local Cambodian community. In this Littleton had turned its back on its oxygen to support reintroduced trout. cafeteria, the city solid-waste manager is downtown river, the Ammonusuc, at Out on the school grounds, a few consulting with a group of fifth graders the end of the nineteenth century. Now, children are sitting on benches writing and the school lunch staff to help them with funding from the Department of poems while another group works with design the recycling and composting Transportation, the town is creating a a landscape architect and the math program. No, those bright shiny faces Riverwalk, which will connect Main teacher to create a map that will be used aren’t sitting behind desks – they are Street with the river and open up a new
2 | STEINER-WALDORF EDUCATION 2017 economic development zone. Working In Louisiana, getting out of the presentations at neighboring schools. in conjunction with the town planner classroom often means getting into In Berkeley, California, a similar and the town engineer, teachers and mosquitoes, so the 4H Club at Caldwell grassroots school-and-community effort community members are engaging Middle School in Terrebonne Parish took has transformed into a bioregional students in the design of a river museum on the practical challenge of mosquito initiative. One vegetable garden at Martin at one end of the Riverwalk. Different control. One parent, whose daughter Luther King Middle School gave rise to grades will be responsible for the has asthma, suggested that they try to the idea of having a garden on every changing exhibitions in the museum. find a way to control mosquitoes in schoolyard in Berkeley, which evolved High school history students might residential areas without aerial spraying into the dream of a garden on every create an exhibit on logging history in of pesticides. Students and teachers schoolyard in California. And since all the Great Northern forest. Sixth grade accepted this challenge and began their the children in any one school can’t be science students will design hands-on study by raising guppies to see if they fed with produce from a single garden, water testing activities. Perhaps third would eat mosquito larvae. But these connections between local farmers and graders will take on the task of creating students got a lesson in ecology when a the school district were forged. Instead the entrance mural as part of their study of freeze-dried burritos trucked from of local plants and animals. “State curriculum the Midwest, how about burritos with The town is already functioning as standards are met, organics beans and cheese grown and a classroom in a novel collaboration and students are given produced by area farmers who are between Chutter’s General Store and threatened by suburban sprawl. These the marketing program at Littleton invaluable opportunities ideas led to the creation of the Food High School’s vocational center. When to learn in real-world Systems Project, whose goal is to have the well-established downtown candy settings.” all the food in the Berkeley school store realized that its internet sales site lunch program be organic and locally was costing more than the revenues it professor from Nichols State University grown within the next decade while also generated, the owners looked to the school recommended native mosquito fish making food preparation and agriculture for a solution. At the same time, the instead, because of the problems caused education an integral part of each high school needed more space and the when nonnative species are introduced school’s curriculum. marketing class was seeking real-world into local waters. projects. So the school district and the So the students turned their attention town agreed to rehabilitate a space below to the mosquito fish, breeding and then Has your class or school taken part in a the candy store to create a marketing releasing them into stagnant ponds, community-based project? classroom in exchange for students ditches, and even swimming pools. participating in reviving Chutter’s internet According to Melynda Rodrigue, 4H Share your experience with other business. By having the marketing class sponsor and Caldwell teacher, the project teachers on the Floris Books Facebook take over the website, the students get branched in multiple directions. Math page or tweet @florisbooks. economic experiences while the candy students charted the numbers of mosquito store owners generate a bit of revenue as fish offspring and the time period a result of the reduced labor costs. needed to repopulate the tanks; science Through a balanced focus on economic classes studied the fish’s life cycle; and development and environmental social studies classes examined the preservation, the community and its impact on the community’s environment. businesses get revitalized, state curriculum Some students used their writing skills standards are met, and students are given to create a brochure for distribution invaluable opportunities to learn in real- to the community, while others got world settings. public speaking experience through
Place-Based Education gives a com- David Sobel is a senior faculty member in the prehensive overview of the theory and Education Department at Antioch University. current best practice of learning in He consults and speaks widely on child real-world settings, including practical development and place-based education for examples and step-by-step strategies. schools and other organisations. Paperback | 156pp | £9.99
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Education Towards Freedom: Leave No Child Inside: A Selection Steiner Education in Theory Rudolf Steiner Education: A of Essays from Orion Magazine and Practice survey of the work of Waldorf H. EMERSON BLAKE (ED) GILBERT J. CHILDS Schools throughout the world Argues that children and nature must A detailed account of Rudolf Steiner’s FRANS CARLGREN be radically reconnected through view of children, and the role The seminal work on Steiner-Waldorf education, to enable them to become education must play in their successful education which has helped establish it stewards of our world. development. throughout the world. Covers all aspects 152pp | £9.99 288pp | £16.99 of this alternative approach to children’s learning and development. The Multifaceted Life of Emil Molt colour illustrations | 272pp | £14.99 SOPHIA CHRISTINE MURPHY The Tasks and Content of the Steiner-Waldorf Curriculum An Exploration into the Destiny of A new biography of the founder of the first Waldorf school, written by his KEVIN AVISON AND the Waldorf School Movement grand-daughter. MARTYN RAWSON (EDS) FRANS LUTTERS 344pp | £20.00 A comprehensive overview of what is Draws connections between Emil Molt taught in Steiner-Waldorf schools, and Emperor Charlemagne, both of whom and why. implemented a new schools movement. Place-Based Education: Connecting 384pp | £20.00 25 b/w illustrations | 180pp | £14.99 Classrooms and Communities DAVID SOBEL The Grail Mystery and the Seven A comprehensive overview of the theory Towards Creative Teaching Liberal Arts and current best practice of experiential, KEVIN AVISON AND FRANS LUTTERS place-based education which advocates MARTYN RAWSON (EDS) Explores the history and future of a learning in real-world settings. A key resource for planning, shaping unique educational structure, which 156pp | £9.99 and developing lessons for Steiner- Waldorf schools are working to Read an extract on p.2 Waldorf Classes 1 to 8. transform for the modern age. 256pp | £12.99 b/w illustrations | 136pp | £14.99 The Recovery of Man in Childhood: Understanding Waldorf Education: A Study of the Educational Work Teaching from the Inside Out A Handbook for Steiner-Waldorf of Rudolf Steiner JACK PETRASH Class Teachers A. C. HARWOOD A jargon-free picture of the key KEVIN AVISON A classic and definitive presentation of components of a Steiner-Waldorf A useful and practical resource book for Steiner-Waldorf education, still as fresh education, ideal for parents and teachers. Steiner-Waldorf teachers with detailed and insightful today as when it was 144pp | £9.99 suggestions and checklists. first written. 144pp | Classes 1–8 | £14.99 206pp | £12.99 Waldorf Education CHRISTOPHER CLOUDER AND Rudolf Steiner’s Curriculum MARTYN RAWSON for Steiner-Waldorf Schools: A concise introduction to the Steiner- An Attempt to Summarise His Waldorf school and its philosophy. Indications Includes examples from the classroom E. A. KARL STOCKMEYER and the curriculum. colour illustrations | 160pp | £7.99 An in-depth exploration of the curriculum of the first Waldorf school, expanding on the original ‘Lehrplan’. 256pp | £16.99
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RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS | 5 It takes a whole village... In this extract from Helping Children Form Healthy Attachments, Loïs Eijgenraam reflects on the collaborative role of caregivers in raising a child, and the significant support role played by trusted figures.
hen children are raised with attachment problems during their to raise a healthy child – a whole by two parents, they are own childhood. If that’s the case, it’s village – and the choice of this word is likely to build close bonds important to recognise these issues and important. Unlike a city, in a traditional with them both. Children work through them. In this instance it African village a group of people live Wmay also develop a close bond with can be challenging to support each other and work together closely; they know just one parent or with another adult as partners, but the primary goal must be each other well. Life in the village is with whom they have a long-standing to raise children in as healthy a manner well balanced, with people dividing relationship. as possible. tasks and responsibilities effectively However, children don’t always But it’s not only the primary between them. All aspects of the village form healthy bonds with both parents. caregivers who are involved in the – the houses, streets and facilities – are Sometimes attachment develops with process of raising healthy, happy in proportion and regularly adapted one parent but not the other, especially children. The title of this chapter comes to suit the requirements of the people if the weaker relationship hasn’t been from an African saying that has proved living there. built on strong foundations using the key in answering many of the questions Similarly, parents and caregivers building blocks we will go on to discuss put to me by parents and caregivers. It look for and rely upon a group of people in Part 2 of safety, trust, self-confidence, asserts that several people are needed who interact closely to function as a independence and creativity. It could ‘village’ for their children. This may be that one parent has a more sensitive “Parents and caregivers include carers at playgroup, nursery approach to the child than the other. In or kindergarten; it may include other times of stress or fear children will reach look for and rely upon parents who take turns caring for out to the carer with whom they are most a group of people who children while other parents are at work; securely attached. interact closely to it will almost certainly include close I have found that parents who friends and family. struggle to bond with their children function as a ‘village’ The younger the child, the smaller the are often struggling to come to terms for their children.” village. For young babies ‘the village’ is
6 | STEINER-WALDORF EDUCATION 2017 the home, garden and neighbourhood a preschooler attends childcare and the old), going to the doctor or the dentist in which walks are taken; for toddlers, changes in personnel, a key care worker (4 years and older), our first romantic it may be extended to playschool or may fulfil this role. relationship (16 years old). nursery; then to kindergarten or primary Support staff at school may become Without making a judgement, nor school, which marks the first significant key trusted figures. For example, a making parents or educators feel guilty, step into the ‘big, wide world’ – a world ten-year-old girl was referred for I believe children ask those in their in which children will begin to live their extra support at school because of ‘village’ for a loving and intensive own lives, no longer so tightly tied to low academic achievement and social collaboration. In reality, toddlers and home. Children sometimes spend more withdrawal following problems at home. preschool children are raised by more waking hours at school than they do A psychologist spent one day with the than just one or two people, and the at home. child – an expert who understood her attachment process concerns them all, The village is not passive. It grows situation, knew which questions to ask, not only the parents. alongside children and their parents. and was able to pinpoint the problem. It seems that today’s children ask The most important aspect of a child’s The girl opened up to the psychologist us (completely unconsciously): Could village is that the inhabitants all know about life at home and bullying in the you please work together as much as one another, that they share a similar classroom. She felt so comfortable with possible? Could you show me through approach to raising children and that the psychologist that this trusted figure your words and actions how to create they can communicate effectively. healthy bonds, so that I can imitate you? But of course children perceive all “It seems that If I can imitate you, I can grow into a members of their village differently, loving, independent person who can and some may play a significant role today’s children take and give responsibility; a person in children’s lives without developing a ask us (completely who can care and be cared for, who can close attachment. unconsciously): Could support and sympathise, who is strong The principal attachment figures in and clear, who can trust completely and children’s lives are usually their primary you please work together be completely trusted in this world. caregivers, whether they be a mother, as much as possible? father, step-parent or other carer. Both Could you show me children and adults become securely attached to people with whom we through your words and develop long-standing emotional bonds. actions how to create A trusted figure may play an important healthy bonds, so that I role in a child’s life, and may influence the rest of that child’s life. It may be can imitate you?” someone who enters their life only once, but has a big impact; or, it could be with whom she had only spent one day someone who visits regularly, such as was able to make a difference for her a grandmother who comes to visit her entire school life. grandson once a month: the child enjoys Most people have trusted figures sharing experiences with her, trusts her we can call on at any time; times of and feels supported by her. Children stress tend to reveal who these people often share a trusting relationship with are. Trusted figures make a significant their teacher, particularly if they have impact and lasting memories throughout the same class teacher for a number of life. For example, we may remember a years. Depending on the number of days friend who took one of our toys (3 years
With practical tips and real-life examples Loïs Eijgenraam has been a kindergarten from an experienced educator, Helping teacher for over 30 years and also works as Children Form Healthy Attachments an educational consultant and lecturer. explores how the process of healthy Paperback | 136pp | £7.99 attachment develops in young children and how carers and educators can help in this process.
CHILD DEVELOPMENT | 7 CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Adventures in Parenting: Children’s Creative Play: How Difficult Children: There Is No A Support Guide for Parents Simple Dolls and Toys Help Your Such Thing: An Appeal for the RACHEL C. ROSS Child Develop Transformation of Educational A supportive book guiding parents KARIN NEUSCHÜTZ Thinking through particular challenges of raising Explores children’s developmental stages HENNING KÖHLER children, to help them carry Waldorf up to age seven, and suggests Challenges the labelling of children school principles through into the home. suitable toys, dolls, games and with so-called behavioural disorders as 112pp | £12.99 activities to nurture them. ‘educationally difficult’. b/w illustrations | 120pp | £7.99 216pp | £14.99 The Care and Development of the Human Senses: Rudolf Steiner’s Completing the Circle Educating Traumatized Children: work on the significance of the THOMAS POPLAWSKI Waldorf Education in Crisis senses in education Explores how teachers and parents Intervention WILLI AEPPLI together can form a supporting, BERND RUF A presentation of Steiner’s ideas about cooperative circle for children. Reveals the work of international the nature of the twelve human senses as Addresses issues of consumerism, play, relief organisation Friends of Waldorf he saw them, and their role in education. media and sports. Education with children in war zones 144pp | £8.99 112pp | £12.99 and disaster areas around the world. 28 b/w illustrations | 220pp | £20.00 Children and Their Temperaments The Developing Child: The First MARIEKE ANSCHÜTZ Seven Years The First Three Years of the Child: A guide to children’s different SUSAN HOWARD (ED) Walking, Speaking, Thinking temperaments and their role in child A collection of articles covering the KARL KÖNIG character, health and personality fundamental stages of development A detailed analysis of the major development. from birth to seven. achievements that dominate the first 128pp | £12.99 136pp | £16.99 three years of life: learning to walk, to speak and to think. Developmental Signatures: Core 128pp | £9.99 The Children of Cyclops: The Values and Practices in Waldorf Influences of Television Viewing Education for Children Ages 3-9 From Images to Thinking on the Developing Human Brain DAVID MITCHELL DAVID MITCHELL (ED) KEITH A. BUZZELL The results of an in-depth study into the An insightful collection of essays Explore the physiological effects of developmental stages of children aged wexploring the development of children’s television-watching on the development between three and nine, in relation to imagination and capacities, from pictures of a child’s brain. Steiner-Waldorf educational practice. and stories through to scientific thinking. 2017 | 112pp | £11.99 b/w photographs | 160pp | £16.99 colour illustrations | 132pp | £22.00
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8 | The Temperaments and the Arts: Helping Children Form Healthy A Practical Guide to Curative Their Relation and Function in Attachments: Building the Education: The Ladder of the Waldorf Pedagogy Foundation for Strong Lifelong Seven Life Processes MAGDA LISSAU Relationships ROBYN BROWN Considers the connection and influence LOÏS EIJGENRAAM Drawing on the ideas of Rudolf Steiner’s of the temperaments in areas such as With practical tips and real-life pioneering Curative Education course, sculpture, painting, eurythmy, music examples from an experienced educator, this book goes back to basics and and language. this insightful book explores how the examines the potential benefits of this 182pp | £12.99 process of healthy attachment develops unique educational approach in today’s in young children (until 6 years old) and classrooms. how carers and educators can help in 180pp | £14.99 Warmth: Nurturing Children’s this process. Health and Wellbeing 136pp | £7.99 Read an extract on p.6 Rubicon: Selections from the EDMOND SCHOOREL Works of Rudolf Steiner A unique and practical book on one MONICA RUEF of the key building blocks of Addresses both the nine-year-old life, essential for healthy child Helping Children on their Way: Rubicon and other transition moments development. Educational Support for the between the ages of seven and twelve. 96pp | £7.99 | September 2017 Classroom 188pp | £16.99 ELIZABETH AUER (ED) Why Children Don’t Listen: Collection of articles for classroom Rudolf Steiner’s Observations on Adolescence: The Third Phase of A Guide for Parents and Teachers teachers who need to give support to MONIKA KIEL-HINRICHSEN children with additional needs. Human Development A handbook for parents and teachers on colour illustrations | 314pp | £20.00 DAVID MITCHELL AND CHRISTOPHER CLOUDER (EDS) how to communicate better with children. A collection of Rudolf Steiner’s comments and writings on adolescence, 192pp | £9.99 Managing Screen Time: Raising from age fourteen to twenty-one. Balanced Children in the Digital Age 176pp | £12.99 Working with Anxious, Nervous EDMOND SCHOOREL and Depressed Children: A Spiritual Perspective to Guide A thought-provoking book which offers a comprehensive overview of The Seven Life Processes: Parents the pros and cons of the use of screens Understanding and Supporting Them HENNING KÖHLER (computers, tablets, consoles and in Home, Kindergarten and School A lively, readable book which proposes smart phones) by children. PHILIPP GELITZ a therapeutic approach for parents 15 b/w illustrations | 128pp | £7.99 AND ALMUTH STREHLOW which draws on spritiual dimensions, Identifies and explores the seven such as angels. physiological life processes and how 144pp | £16.99 Morality and Ethics in Education they relate to the healthy development DAVID MITCHELL of children. The Young Child in the World Today Helps parents and teachers understand b/w illustrations | 180pp | £20.00 SUSAN HOWARD their role in guiding young people A collection of articles on helping the towards right thought and right action. young child meet the challenges of 148pp | £22.50 Sexual Abuse Of Children: today’s world. Understanding, Prevention, and 86pp | £16.99 Phases of Childhood: Growing in Treatment Body, Soul and Spirit MICHAELA GLÖCKLER BERNARD C. J. LIEVEGOED A short but insightful booklet tackling a Argues that education must take into difficult but important issue. account body, soul and spirit in order 16pp | Pamphlet | £5.99 for a child to develop into a happy, wise, skilled adult. 208pp | £12.99
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NEW | 9 NEW Feeding the senses The children at Børneøen Bonsai kindergarten in Charlottenlund, Denmark are nourished with homecooked meals, often foraged or grown in their own garden. In this extract from Pumpkin Soup and Cherry Bread: A Steiner-Waldorf Kindergarten Cookbook, Rikke Rosengren (Bonsai’s co-founder and director) and Nana Lyzet (gourmet chef) explain the important role that food plays in their teaching.
ur children all eat the same festival, the lantern festival, Pentecost are optimised when days are built food, and they gain a strong and the summer festival. around a familiar rhythm. People are sense of community from Rhythm is important to children because creatures of rhythm. We breathe in and doing so. They talk about regular routines give them peace of mind out. We wake and we sleep. The seasons andO share food instead of each sitting and a sense of familiarity. Rhythms play follow a rhythm that is reflected in us. with their own lunchboxes. Mealtimes an important part in Rudolf Steiner’s We see this in our mood, energy levels are incredibly exciting. We want to educational approach. He argued that and diet. When we eat seasonally we are show that mindfulness, food and the strengthened physically and mentally rhythm of the seasons can come together “The journey from and it’s clear that our bodies are getting in a holistic unity that delights both seed to plate offers exactly what they need, just when they children and adults – at home as well need it. as at kindergarten. We want to convey countless opportunities the pleasure that comes from adjusting for learning with your our lives and diets to nature’s own senses.” If you have tried any of the recipes rhythm. We want to show the benefits of from Pumpkin Soup and Cherry Bread, making the children active participants. children up to the age of seven thrive or if you have your own recipes to The journey from seed to plate offers off a calm life guided by routine. They share from your kindergarten, please countless opportunities for learning gain a sense of security from knowing send your photos or recipes to us via with your senses. Seasonal celebrations that things will stay the same, which email or our social media channels. are an important part of the rhythm of allows them the space and time needed the year at a Steiner kindergarten. Each to process sensory impressions. Many @FlorisBooks is associated with specific traditions – areas of children’s development, for [email protected] some food-related – such as the autumn example, will power and imagination, *
10 | STEINER-WALDORF EDUCATION 2017 Cherry focaccia (Serves 40 children)
• 4kg stoned cherries • 4 tbsp olive oil • 4 tbsp dry yeast • 400g demerara sugar • 4l lukewarm water • salt flakes to sprinkle • c. 4.5kg plain flour on the bread
1. Mix the flour, water and yeast to a dough, knead and allow to prove for around 1 hour. 2. Push the dough into a suitable tin, distribute the stoned cherries evenly across the top. 3. Leave the dough to prove for another 30 minutes. 4. Sprinkle the sugar, salt and olive oil onto the bread. 5. Bake it at 180°C (350°F) for around 30 minutes, depending on size.
Elderflower cordial (Serves 40 children) This is a summer classic. Take your children to pick elderflowers. They will love picking the flowers and drinking the squash that they helped to make.
• 1½ organic lemons • 1l water • 1kg sugar • 25 large elderflower heads 1. Slice the lemons and put them in a large pan with the sugar. 2. Add water and bring to the boil. 3. Put the flowers in large bowl and pour over the hot liquid. Cover and leave in a cool place for 3 days. 4. Strain the cordial through a coffee filter and bottle it. 5. Serve 1 part cordial to 3 parts water.
As well as offering new ways to serve a range enjoy healthy food. Recipes are fully adapted of delicious vegetables, grains and fruit, to serve either a family of four, or classes of Pumpkin Soup and Cherry Bread contains up to forty children. a wealth of advice on developing your own food culture and encouraging children to Paperback | 168pp | £14.99
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The Child from Birth to Three in From Kindergarten into the Grades: On the Play of the Child: Waldorf Education and Child Care Insights from Rudolf Steiner Indications by Rudolf Steiner for RAINER PATZLAFF AND RUTH KER (ED) Working with Young Children SUSAN HOWARD (EDS) Helps parents and teachers understand FREYA JAFFKE A clear and succinct summary of Steiner’s words on the transition from A compilation of Rudolf Steiner’s words the anthroposophical view of child kindergarten to school, giving context on the subject of children’s play. An development from birth to three. to this challenging time. essential resource for early childhood colour illustrations | 84pp | £14.99 96pp | £12.99 educators, now in a second edition. 60pp | £11.99 Childhood’s Garden: Shaping The Journey of the ‘I’ into Life: Everyday Life Around the Needs A Final Destination or a Path Towards Freedom? Play with Us!: Social Games for of Young Children Young Children HELLE HECKMANN NANCY BLANNING (ED) FREYA JAFFKE A unique book-and-DVD set that gives A collection of keynote presentations A concise but rich collection of games a glimpse into Helle Heckmann’s Danish from the 2012 International Waldorf for indoors and outdoors which will be program for children aged one to seven. Early Childhood conference. invaluable to any early-years educator. colour illus. | 48pp | Pamphlet | £22.50 inc VAT 60pp | £9.99 30 b/w illustrations | 80pp | £14.99 Cradle of a Healthy Life: Early Nokken: A Garden for Children: Childhood and the Whole of Life A Danish Approach to JOHANNA STEEGMANS Waldorf-based Child Care Pumpkin Soup and Cherry Bread: AND GERALD KARNOW HELLE HECKMANN A Steiner-Waldorf Kindergarten Perspectives from two anthroposophic Helle Heckmann describes a delightful Cookbook doctors on helping young children develop Danish Waldorf childcare facility for RIKKE ROSENGREN AND NANA LYZET a healthy relationship with their bodies. children aged 1-7. Contains over eighty seasonal recipes 162pp | £11.99 b/w illustrations | 116pp | £12.99 – nutritious, delicious, vegetarian and 100% natural – along with a wealth of Creating Connections: Perspectives Nurturing Potential in the advice on encouraging children to enjoy on Parent-and-Child Work in Kindergarten Years: A Guide for healthy food. Waldorf Early Childhood Education Teachers, Carers and Parents colour illustrations | 168pp | £14.99 KIMBERLEY LEWIS CORNELIS BOOGERD Read an extract on p.10 AND SUSAN WEBER (EDS) Helps parents and teachers understand Explores all aspects of parent-and- children’s learning processes, and School Readiness Today: A Report child work, including perspectives from provides practical ways to nurture them from the Pedagogical Section of educators and parents. in the first seven years, using teachers’ the Goetheanum 122pp | £11.99 own etheric bodies. NANCY BLANNING 2 b/w diagrams | 256pp | £14.99 First Grade Readiness: Resources, Offers valuable insights into discerning Insights and Tools for Waldorf school readiness, with concrete examples. Educators colour illustrations | 80pp | £11.99 NANCY BLANNING (ED) A collection of essential research and resources to help educators prepare children for starting school. 188pp | Spiral bound | £16.99
12 | Supporting Self-directed Play in Waldorf Kindergartens Today Working with the Angels: Steiner-Waldorf Early Childhood MARIE-LUISE COMPANI The Young Child and the Education AND PETER LANG (EDS) Spiritual World RENATE LONG-BREIPOHL Considers the principles, characteristics and SUSAN HOWARD (ED) A important overview on the importance future of Steiner-Waldorf kindergartens. A collection of articles about finding a of children’s play, and types of colour illustrations | 224pp | £16.99 connection to the spiritual world as a self-directed play. help to our work with young children. colour illustrations | 50pp | Pamphlet | £14.99 A Warm and Gentle Welcome: 128pp | £16.99 Nurturing Children from Birth to Age Three Tell Me A Story: Stories from A Year in the Woods: Reflections the Waldorf Early Childhood TRICE ATCHISON AND MARGARET on Leading an Outdoor Parent- Association of North America RIS (EDS) and-Child Group LOUISE DEFOREST (ED) An essential compilation of articles on MARGARET MADELINE LOESCHER ILLUSTRATED BY DEBORAH GRIEDER the vital years between birth and three in relation to professional Waldorf caregiving. Reflective, inspirational chronicle on a A collection of favourite stories, old 86pp | £16.99 year spent leading an outdoor parent- and new, especially selected for and-child group in England. Steiner-Waldorf kindergartens. b/w line drawings | 100pp | £12.99 b&w illustrations | 276pp | £18.99 What is a Waldorf Kindergarten? SHARIFA OPPENHEIMER (ED) Trust and Wonder: A Waldorf An in-depth look at Waldorf You’re Not The Boss of Me!: Approach to Caring for Infants kindergartens, from the essentials that Understanding the Six/Seven- and Toddlers underpin them to the practicalities of Year-Old Transformation ELDBJORG GJESSING PAULSEN the daily routine. RUTH KER (ED) A kindergarten teacher shares her 120pp | £9.99 A multitude of resources and insights extensive experience of integrating to help parents and teachers of six- and children under three into a Waldorf seven-year-old children. kindergarten. Work and Play in Early Childhood 316pp | Spiral bound | Classes 1–2 | £20.00 11 b/w photographs | 124pp | £11.99 FREYA JAFFKE Shows how rhythm and repetition, together with example and imitation, Upstart: The case for raising the are the pillars on which early learning is school starting age and providing based in kindergarten. what the under-sevens really need colour illustrations | 80pp | £7.99 SUE PALMER Sue Palmer puts forward a passionate case for Britain adopting a proper ‘kindergarten’ stage that recognises what younger children really need. 224pp | £9.99
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Gesture Games for Autumn and Merrily We Sing: Original Songs Winter: Hand Gesture, Song and in the Mood of the Fifth MUSIC & Movement Games for Children in ILIAN WILLWERTH Kindergarten and the Lower Grades A useful book of songs and music, using MOVEMENT WILMA ELLERSIEK the pentatonic scale, for kindergarten A second volume of wonderful seasonal teachers. gesture games, fingerplays, and songs in 40pp | £12.99 Dancing Hand, Trotting Pony: the mood of the fifth. b/w illus. | 146pp | Spiral bound | £18.99 The Mood of the Fifth: A Musical Hand Gesture Games, Songs and Approach to Early Childhood Movement Games for Children in Gesture Games for Spring and NANCY FOSTER (ED) Kindergarten and the Lower Grades Summer, Autumn and Winter: WILMA ELLERSIEK A resource book for Steiner-Waldorf A Learning CD teachers exploring the role of music in A lovely collection of games based on Audio CD | £14.99 inc VAT the development of young children. movement, for use with young children. 200pp | £16.99 164pp | Spiral bound | £22.50 Giving Love, Bringing Joy: Hand Gesture Games and Lullabies Movement for the Young Child: A Day Full of Song: Work Songs in the Mood of the Fifth, for A Handbook for Eurythmists and from a Waldorf Kindergarten Children Between Birth and Nine Kindergarten Teachers KAREN LONSKY WILMA ELLERSIEK ESTELLE BRYER ILLUSTRATED BY VICTORIA SANDER Gentle, loving games and songs that A treasury of songs, stories, verses and 42 original songs in the mood of the incorporate the healing, enlivening games for use with young children, fifth, created for a range of activities in qualities of gesture, touch, and movement. especially as part of a eurythmy lesson. the kindergarten day. b/w illus. | 110pp | Spiral bound | £18.99 120pp | £18.99 b/w illustrations | 64pp | £12.99 Giving Love, Bringing Joy: A Day Full of Song: Companion CD A Learning CD The Singing, Playing Kindergarten Audio CD | £7.50 inc VAT Audio CD | £9.99 inc VAT DANIEL UDO DE HAES Explores seemingly simple singing and Gesture Games for Spring and A Lifetime of Joy: A Collection gesture games in depth, considering Summer: Hand Gesture Games, of Circle Games, Finger Games, their significance for a healthy Songs and Movement Games for Songs, Verses and Plays for childhood awakening. Children in Kindergarten and the Puppets and Marionettes 174pp | £18.99 Lower Grades BRONJA ZAHLINGEN (ED) WILMA ELLERSIEK A treasury of verses, finger games, stories, Wonderful seasonal gesture games, and plays for puppets and marionettes. fingerplays, and songs in the mood of 114pp | £14.99 the fifth. b/w illus. | 110pp | Spiral bound | £22.50
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The Seasonal Festivals in The Creative Word: Language and Celebrating Festivals with Children Early Childhood: Seeking the Storytelling in Early Childhood FREYA JAFFKE Universally Human DANIEL UDO DE HAES Describes festival celebrations in NANCY FOSTER (ED) Guidance and wisdom on how relation to child development in the first A collection of articles, stories, to aid toddlers as they transition seven years. songs, circle games and puppet plays from wordless communication to 144pp | £9.99 which offer thoughtful reflections on encountering the world through Jonathan’s Journey the cycle of the year. language. Ideal for parents and 162pp | £16.99 educators. ELIZABETH L. LOMBARDI 96pp | £12.99 On Christmas Eve a dwarf invites Jonathan to the Inside Land where he For the Children of the World: meets Father Christmas and makes a Stories and Recipes from the promise. International Association for colour illustrations | 32pp | Hardback | £14.99 If you’re an Early Years Steiner/Waldorf Early Childhood educator, you may be also be Education Nativity Plays for Children: interested in these books on LOUISE DEFOREST (ED) Celebrating Christmas through page 8... 24 delightful stories from the corners Movement and Music of the globe, along with 10 delicious WILMA ELLERSIEK • Children’s Creative Play child-friendly recipes. Everything you need to perform a • The Developing Child b/w illustrations | 148pp | £12.99 nativity play with children – music, • Developmental Signatures lyrics and movements plus advice on The Knottles props and costumes. NANCY MELLON colour illus. | 176pp | £16.99 and these books on page 9 ILLUSTRATED BY RUTH LIEBERHERR • Helping Children Form Saint Martin: Between Healthy Attachments When two children go to sleep in their Michaelmas and the Holy Nights new home at the edge of a pine forest • The Seven Life Processes they meet the Knottles, guardians of MICHAEL MARTIN the pine trees, who inspire them to take A study of Saint Martin, his life, legend, • Warmth: Nurturing care of their trees. historical and esoteric significance, Children’s Health and colour illustrations | 32pp | £9.99 with suggestions for new directions for Wellbeing festival celebrations. 38pp | Pamphlet | £9.99
| 15 Something beginning with R...
Children learn letters best by engaging with creative and stimulating illustrations. We hope you enjoy these two illustrations from The Waldorf Alphabet Book for letters ‘R’ and ‘S’.
16 | STEINER-WALDORF EDUCATION 2017 In this delightful, bestselling alphabet and game Famke Zonneveld was an art teacher and an book for young children, each consonant and artist. She taught crafts and the history of vowel comes to life in vivid pictures that show architecture at the Rudolf Steiner School in New each letter’s unique qualities in the world. The York City and studied Goethe’s colour theories. vibrant and playful illustrations help children Paperback | 64pp | £11.99 learn the alphabet in the most natural and living way.
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LANGUAGE & LITERATURE The Alpha Beta Book: Fairy Tales and Art Mirrored in Language Teaching in An Introduction to Ancient Greek Human Consciousness Steiner-Waldorf Schools: KEITH MCCRARY MONICA GOLD Insights from Rudolf Steiner A fun, accessible book for learning some Explores the connection between JOHANNES KIERSCH basic Ancient Greek. Suitable for adult creative art and fairy tales, and their Discusses Steiner’s view of the nature beginners and children; ideal for Class potential influence and inspiration on of language in relation to child 5 in the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum. our modern minds. development. For Steiner-Waldorf Includes an audio CD. colour illus. | 196pp | Classes 1-8 | £25.00 language teachers. b/w illus. | 64pp | Classes 5-6 | £14.99 inc VAT 144pp | Classes 1-8 | £9.99 Andando Caminos: Teaching Fire the Imagination – Write On! Spanish in Waldorf Schools DORIT WINTER The Power of Grammar: ELENA FORRER A useful guide for teaches of Classes A Phenomenological Approach A treasure trove of resources from 6-8 (age 11-14) to help children learn to ANNE GREER Hispanic culture for Steiner-Waldorf write creatively, clearly and precisely. Draws on teachers’ classroom experience teachers of Spanish. 208pp | Classes 6-8 | £14.99 to present creative approaches to 326pp | Classes 1-8 | £37.50 grammar teaching. colour illus. | 172pp | Classes 1-8 | £20.00 An English Manual for the A Journey Through Time in Verse Elementary School and Rhyme DOROTHY HARRER HEATHER THOMAS (ED) The Power of Stories: Nurturing A useful teacher’s resource for teaching An invaluable collection of poetry for Children’s Imagination and English language and composition in use by teachers of children aged six to Consciousness Years 2 to 8 (age 7 to 14) in the Steiner- fourteen. HORST KORNBERGER Waldorf school curriculum. 368pp | Hardback | Classes 1–8 | £20.00 Explores the power of Bible stories, fairy 144pp | Classes 2–8 | £12.99 tales, and the Odysseus, Parsifal and Oedipus stories, considering how that power can be used to help children’s healthy development. 256pp | £9.99
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Spelling by Hand: Teaching Teaching Foreign Languages: The The Waldorf Book of Poetry Spelling in a Waldorf School: Steiner-Waldorf School Approach DAVID KENNEDY (ED) A Guide for Class Teachers ERHARD DAHL 425 poems from classic and modern JEREMY HERRMANN A useful handbook for anyone interested poets for poetry lovers, parents, teachers Offers simple but effective techniques in how Waldorf schools teach foreign and children. to help children make sense of difficult languages. 352pp | Classes 1-8 | £16.99 English spelling words. 96pp | Classes 1-8 | £9.99 36pp | Pamphlet | £7.99 Who Is Harry Potter? Verses and Poems and Stories to Tell FRANS LUTTERS Storytelling for Life: Why Stories DOROTHY HARRER An esoteric study of the archetypes and Matter and Ways of Telling Them A rich collection of delightful tales and characters behind the Harry Potter series. JOSIE FELCE rhymes to accompany everyday life. 72pp | Classes 6-8 | £9.99 Introduces the value of storytelling 92pp | Classes 1-4 | £8.99 throughout life and how it can The Wisdom of Fairy Tales transform challenging situations in RUDOLF MEYER both childhood and adulthood. Offers Waldorf Alphabet Book The author rediscovers the lost meaning practical advice on how to tell stories in of fairy tales and demonstrates how different situations. FAMKE ZONNEVELD they can have a profound influence on 136pp | £14.99 ILLUSTRATED BY FAMKE ZONNEVELD the developing mind of a child. The best-selling alphabet book for 268pp | £12.99 The Sun with Loving Light teachers who want to encourage the STEPHEN BLOOMQUIST (ED) most natural development in children. ILLUSTRATED BY PAMELA DALTON olour illus. | 64pp | Classes 1-2 | £11.99 Word Mastery Primer: For First and Second Graders A beautiful collection of verses, poems, Find an extract on p.16 songs and stories for children in Classes HUGH RENWICK (ED) 1 to 3 in Waldorf schools. The Waldorf Book of Animal Poetry A wonderful teacher resource for helping colour illus. | 110pp | Hb | Classes 1–3 | £16.99 DAVID KENNEDY (ED) children learn to read, bringing the sounds of words and phonemes to life. A rich collection of over 400 poems by 128pp | Classes 1-2 | £12.99 classic and modern authors. 384pp | Classes 1-8 | £16.99
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| 19 Kingdom of Beautiful Colours Classic stories can enchant, captivate and inspire. The master storytelling of Isabel Wyatt conjures up rich worlds and adventures in the minds of adults and children alike. We hope you enjoy this extract from Wyatt’s rainbow-themed The Kingdom of Beautiful Colours.
nce upon a time there was a return, I shall go to the top of the cloud The eldest prince suggested, “Perhaps kingdom of beautiful colours. mountain. If I see that you have kept the wisest thing would be to ask our fairy In the middle of it stood a your rainbows clean and bright, you godmother.” cloud mountain, and from the shall each keep the lands you have cared But the youngest prince reminded topO of the cloud mountain you could for and become their king. But if you him, “You know she only leaves the look down on a wonderful rainbow, have not kept your rainbow beautiful, I moon for one day each year.” shining yellow, green and blue. The King shall have to take them away from you, The second prince suggested, had spent his whole life keeping the and you will have no lands at all.” “Couldn’t we pay her a visit, like we rainbow clean and bright. He often went The King said farewell to his sons used to do when we were small?” to the top of the cloud mountain to make and set out on his long journey. The But the youngest prince reminded sure that the rainbow was still beautiful, four princes at once began to ask each him, “Her silver ladders are so delicate, because then he knew that all was well other how to keep their rainbows clean they probably wouldn’t take our weight, with the pastures and the forests and the and bright. now that we are bigger.” cornfields of his kingdom. The third prince suggested, “Couldn’t The time came for the King to go on we try the ladders at full moon? They a long journey, so he called his four sons are much stronger then.” to him and he divided the kingdom of “He called his four sons So at full moon the four princes beautiful colours into four parts. He gave to him and he divided went to the top of the cloud mountain, a part to each of his sons to take care of the kingdom of beautiful and climbed the silver ladders resting while he was away. And now from the on its summit. When they reached the top of the cloud mountain there were colours into four parts. moon, they got into a silver boat and four rainbows, each shining with yellow, He gave a part to each of sailed along a misty river to their fairy green and blue. his sons to take care of godmother’s palace. There they found “My dear sons,” the King said, “I shall her, sitting beside a fire which she fed be away for three whole years. When I while he was away.” with mistletoe, stirring a great silver
20 | STEINER-WALDORF EDUCATION 2017 cauldron. She was melting the sun’s gold “The sun’s light controls the bread: “Then I will learn to be a farmer to turn it into moonlight. Use it as the sun wants it to be used. and keep all our yellow lands happy,” The eldest prince said to her, “Dear The moon’s tides control the milk: said the eldest prince. fairy godmother, we have come to ask Use it as the moon wants it to be used. But the youngest prince said, “I your advice.” The earth’s strength controls the wood. will keep my own lands happy all by The second prince said, “Our father Use it as the earth wants it to be used.” myself.” has gone on a long journey, and he So the three eldest princes worked has given us the kingdom of beautiful The four princes thanked their fairy hard every day in their own and each colours to take care of while he is away.” godmother, and sailed away from her other’s lands. Every evening, they The third prince said, “If we keep silver palace in the silver boat. They climbed the cloud mountain to make our rainbows clean and bright, he will came down the silver ladders to the sure that all three rainbows were still give us each the lands we have cared for cloud mountain, and returned to their clean and bright. when he returns.” father’s castle. But the youngest prince found that Finally the youngest prince said, “So it was not easy for a prince to become we wondered if you could tell us how to herdsman and farmer and forester all keep our rainbows beautiful?” “The four princes rolled into one, especially as it left him The fairy godmother stopped stirring thanked their fairy so little time for hunting. the sun’s gold in the silver cauldron, and One day, when he really wanted looked up, and smiled, and nodded. “Yes, godmother, and sailed to go hunting but he knew that he my dear godsons,” she said. “I can tell away from her silver should be ploughing his cornfields, he you. To keep your rainbows beautiful, palace in the silver said aloud, “Oh I wish someone would you must keep your lands happy.” take these tiresome yellow lands off The eldest prince asked her, “Dear boat. They came down my hands!” fairy godmother, how can we keep our the silver ladders to No sooner had he said it than there yellow lands happy?” the cloud mountain, was a flash of lightning and a clap of “By ploughing with devotion, sowing thunder; and there beside him stood with joy and harvesting with gratitude,” and returned to their a wicked little imp, with claws for the fairy godmother replied. father’s castle...” fingers and a long tail and eyes like The second prince asked her, “Dear coals of fire. “I will gladly take your fairy godmother, how can we keep our yellow lands off your hands,” said the green lands happy?” When they reached their father’s little imp. “By letting only contented cows feed castle, the eldest prince said to the in their pastures,” the fairy godmother others, “Dear brothers, it will be difficult If you’re inspired by Isabel Wyatt’s replied. for us each to learn in only three years to storytelling, why not discover the rest The third prince asked her, “Dear be a good farmer and a good herdsman of the story with your class. fairy godmother, how can we keep our and a good forester. Wouldn’t it be wise blue lands happy?” for us each to learn to do one of these “By planting a young tree for every things well, and to do it for us all?” old tree you cut down,” replied the fairy “I will learn to be a herdsman and godmother. keep all our green lands happy,” said the Finally the youngest prince said, second prince. “That sounds very, very easy! Is that “I will learn to be a forester and keep really all?” The fairy godmother replied: all our blue lands happy, ” said the third prince.
The Kingdom of Beautiful Colours and The Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book, The Eight- Other Stories tells seven wonderful tales, Year-Old Legend Book, Magical Wonder Tales, full of ivory towers, great forests, golden Norse Hero Tales, The Legends of King Arthur, lands and the star of the sea. and Hay For My Ox.
Isabel Wyatt (1901-1992) was a beloved You can find many of Wyatt’s enchanting author of children’s stories, including story collections on p.23.
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STORIES & CLASS READERS
The Blue Forest: Bedtime Stories The Easter Story Book The Adventures of Scoochie Mouse for the Nights of the Week INEKE VERSCHUREN (ED) THERESA ROACH MELIA LUKE FISCHER Over 30 legends and folk tales reflect ILLUSTRATED BY MARCIA A. NILSSON ILLUSTRATED BY STEPHANIE YOUNG the season around Easter and early This gentle story for young children A magical collection of seven bedtime summer. The stories follow the cycle of follows Scoochie, and her animal and stories – one for each night of the week, seasonal festivals, including Ascension gnome friends, though the seasons of each featuring one of the seven colours and Whitsun. Authors include the Grimm the year as they understand and live of the rainbow. brothers, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Lagerlöf. out the values of the farm: a deep colour illus. | 48pp | Hb | Classes 1-3 | £12.99 b/w illustrations | 240pp | Classes 1–6 | £14.99 reverence for nature, kindness towards all creatures. Brother Francis: The Life of The Eight-Year-Old Legend Book b/w illustrations | 154pp | Classes 1-3 | £9.99 Francis of Assisi ISABEL WYATT JAKOB STREIT A collection of enchanting Eastern adventure tales for children who are And There Was Light: From the A retelling of the life of Francis of Assisi for children aged six and up. themselves learning to become clever Creation of the World to Noah’s Ark and brave. b/w illustrations | 56pp | Classes 1-8 | £9.99 JAKOB STREIT 10 b/w line illus. | 120pp | Classes 2–4 | £8.99 A collection of stories from the Old Christ Legends A Favourite Collection of Grimm’s Testament for children. SELMA LAGERLÖF b/w illustrations | 112pp | Class 3 | £12.99 Fairy Tales: Cinderella, Little Red ILLUSTRATED BY RONALD HEUNINCK Riding Hood, Snow White and The Bee Book Lagerlöf brings the stories of Jesus’ the Seven Dwarfs and many more JAKOB STREIT birth and childhood truly to life in this classic stories wonderful collection of tales for children. An exquisite story for children which 12 b/w illus. | 160pp | Classes 2-8 | £8.99 JACOB & WILHELM GRIMM brings the world of honeybees to life. In ILLUS. BY ANASTASIYA ARCHIPOVA the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum it’s useful The Christmas Story Book A beautiful gift edition of the thirteen for Classes 4 and 5 (age 10-12), and for INEKE VERSCHUREN (ED) best-loved Grimm’s tales, in a new introducing the theme of sexuality. child-friendly size. b/w illustrations | 90pp | Classes 4–5 | £9.99 Includes over 50 Christmas stories, from Hans Christian Andersen, Selma colour illus. | 176pp | Hb | Classes 1-8 | £9.99 The Beejum Book Lagerlöf, Jeanna Oterdahl, Peter Geron and Virtus: A Fateful ALICE O. HOWELL Rosegger, Ruth Sawyer and Henry van Dyke and others. Encounter of Two Youths: When Teak is lonely she travels to b/w illus. | 430pp | Hb | Classes 1–6 | £16.99 A German and a Roman the imaginary world she has created JAKOB STREIT filled with fascinating characters. This insightful book explores a child’s A story of two boys who meet during instinct to use imagination to offer the Roman campaign to conquer comfort and deal with anxiety. Germanic tribes. 304pp | Classes 3-8 | £16.99 8 b/w illus. | 188pp | Classes 6–7 | £9.99
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22 | Hay for My Ox and Other Stories: Journey to the Promised Land: Legends of King Arthur A First Reading Book for The Path of the People of Israel from ISABEL WYATT Waldorf Schools Abraham’s Calling to David’s Dream A fresh retelling of the fascinating legends ISABEL WYATT JAKOB STREIT of King Arthur’s castle and his Knights. A classic early reading book for Steiner- A collection of stories from the Old b/w illustrations | 168pp | Classes 3–6 | £8.99 Waldorf Classes 1 and 2 (age 6-8). Testament for children. colour illus. | 104pp | Classes 1–2 | £7.99 15 b/w illustrations | 174pp | Class 3 | £12.99 Liputto: Stories of Gnomes and Trolls JAKOB STREIT An Illustrated Treasury of Hans The King of Ireland’s Son: A collection of stories for children about Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales: An Irish Folk Tale gnomes, elves, trolls and other little folk. The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, PADRAIC COLUM 10 b/w illustrations | 60pp | Class 1 | £12.99 The Princess and the Pea and ILLUSTRATED BY WILLY POGANY Little Bee Sunbeam many more classic stories A true Irish wonder tale: a coming HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN of age story of the youngest son of JAKOB STREIT ILLUS. BY ANASTASIYA ARCHIPOVA the King Ireland, who sets off on A lovely story of bee-life in a hive, suitable This beautiful collection of Andersen’s an impossible quest. Generations of for children. Introduces issues of sexuality best-loved fairy tales, sumptiously children have loved the humour, poetry, for the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum. illustrated by Anastasiya Archipova, is action and adventure of Padraic Colum’s b/w illustrations | 96pp | Classes 5+ | £8.99 designed for little hands and will make a unmatched storytelling. stunning addition to any bookshelf. b/w illustrations | 288pp | Class 2 | £8.99 Magical Wonder Tales: colour illus. | 216pp | Hb | Classes 1-8 | £9.99 King Beetle Tamer and Other Stories The Kingdom of Beautiful Colours ISABEL WYATT The Invisible Boat and Other Stories A collection of fifteen magical wonder ERIC G. MÜLLER ISABEL WYATT tales from master storyteller Isabel An magical novel for 8 to 11 year Wyatt, for children aged seven and up. A collection of seven enchanting tales 152pp | Classes 2–4 | £8.99 olds which teaches the importance of from master storyteller Isabel Wyatt, for listening, planning and courage. children aged nine and up. 336pp | Classes 3-8 | £14.99 Mary’s Little Donkey and the 160pp | Classes 2–4 | £8.99 Escape to Egypt Invisible Guardians: True Stories Read an extract on p.20 GUNHILD SEHLIN of Fateful Encounters ILLUSTRATED BY JAN VERHEIJEN Lara’s First Christmas JAKOB STREIT An exciting and beautifully told version A remarkable collection of true stories ALICE O. HOWELL of the Christmas story and the early for children about guiding forces, such ILLUSTRATED BY MAGGIE MAILER years of little Jesus’s life, from a unique, as angels, intervening in human destiny. A warm, luminous story about the real child-friendly perspective. b/w illustrations | 64pp | Classes 6-8 | £7.99 meaning of Christmas, from the author 14 b/w illus. | 144pp | Classes 2–6 | £8.99 of The Beejum Book. b/w illustrations | 48pp | Classes 3-8 | £7.99
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STORIES & CLASS READERS (continued)
Namaste! Snip Snap Snout!: A Waldorf Reader Three Grimm’s Fairy Tales DIANA COHN for Third Grade Extra Lesson Work PETER STEBBING (ED) ILLUSTRATED BY AMY CORDOVA ARTHUR M. PITTIS ILLUSTRATED BY GERARD WAGNER A lovely story that will help children to ILLUSTRATED BY AUSA M. PEACOCK A beautiful collection of artwork understand everyday life in Nepal. A teacher’s resource book of stories inspired by Grimm fairy tales. Includes colour illustrations | 32pp | Class 1-3 | £7.99 based on fables and saints legends, with a lecture by Rudolf Steiner on the progressively developing vocabulary and significance of fairy tales. Peter and Anneli’s Journey sentence structure. colour illus. | 88pp | Hb | Classes 1-5 | £20.00 to the Moon 25 b/w illus. | 82pp | Hb | Class 3 | £7.99 GERDT VON BASSEWITZ We Will Build a Temple: The Path ILLUSTRATED BY HANS BALUSCHEK Spirit of the Mountain of Israel from King Solomon to This classic German children’s tale of SHELLEY DAVIDOW John the Baptist fantasy and adventure tells the story A coming of age story set among the JAKOB STREIT of how Peter and Anneli help Mr ancient wisdom of South Africa. A collection of stories from the Old and Zoomzeman, a June Bug, bring his leg 144pp | Classes 6-8 | £12.99 New Testaments, for children. back from the Moon. b/w illustrations | 104pp | Class 3 | £11.99 colour illus. | 120pp | Hb | Classes 3-5 | £14.99 The Star Rider and Anna McLoon: Two Tales from Ireland What Animals Say to Each Other: Puck the Gnome JAKOB STREIT 30 Nature Fables in Rhyme JAKOB STREIT Two beautiful Irish stories for children JAKOB STREIT A delightful story for children about the exploring issues of life and death, Bright rhyming verse introduces world of gnomes, addressing issues of destiny and integrity. children aged six and up to the friendship, honesty and loyalty. 52pp | Classes 6+ | £7.99 characteristics of different animals. b/w illus. | 100pp | Classes 1–2 | £12.99 27 b/w illus. | 48pp | Classes 1-8 | £8.99 Stories of the Saints: A Collection The Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book for Children ISABEL WYATT SIEGWART KNIJPENGA The Wise Enchanter: A Journey These magical tales take us through the Inspirational tales of remarkable people, Through the Alphabet highlights of the year, through festivals especially selected for their appeal and SHELLEY DAVIDOW and birthdays. relevance to children aged about 7 to 11. ILLUSTRATED BY KRYSTYNA KURZYCA b/w illustrations | 160pp | Classes 1–3 | £8.99 b/w illustrations | 224pp | Classes 2–6 | £12.99 Words are disappearing from the world. Four children from the corners of the earth have been sent on a quest to rediscover lost letters and unlock the treasure of language before wisdom and light vanish from the world altogether. b/w illustrations | 160pp | Classes 3-5 | £11.99
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The Age of Discovery Hellas: Memory, Reflection, CHARLES KOVACS Chapters from Ancient History: Expectation: Ancient Greek An overview of world history from the In Biographic Vein Culture in a New Perspective time of the Crusades to the Renaissance. DOROTHY HARRER (ED) WILLEM FREDERIK VELTMAN An invaluable and rich collection of 224pp | Class 7 | £9.99 A fascinating overview of ancient insights into the cultures of Ancient Greek culture, myth and history. Perfect India, Persia, Babylon, Mesopotamia, The Age of Revolution background reading for Steiner-Waldorf Egypt and Greece. CHARLES KOVACS teachers preparing for a module on An overview of world history from 152pp | Classes 5 and 10 | £16.99 Ancient Greece. the 18th to 20th centuries, including 70 b/w illus. | 372pp | Classes 5–6 | £22.50 the French, American and Industrial The Demon Slayer Revolutions. SAMUEL MILLS Homer’s Odyssey: A Retelling by 240pp | Class 8 | £9.99 A coming-of-age tale drawing on Hindu Isabel Wyatt mythology and life in ancient India. Ancient Greece ISABEL WYATT 192pp | Classes 6-8 | £12.99 A retelling of the wonderful Greek epic, CHARLES KOVACS suitable for children aged 8 and up. A retelling of Greek mythology and The Dream Song of Olaf Asteson: 10 b/w illus. | 176pp | Classes 5–6 | £8.99 history as recommended for Steiner- An Ancient Norwegian Folksong Waldorf curriculum Classes 5-6. of the Holy Nights Legends of the Norse Kings: 176pp | Classes 5–6 | £9.99 JANET JORDAN The Saga of King Ragnar Goatskin and The Dream of King Alfdan Ancient Rome An epic Scandinavian narrative brought to life with luminous illustrations. ISABEL WYATT CHARLES KOVACS colour illus. | 64pp | Hb | Classes 3-8 | £16.99 The legendary adventures of Norse An overview of Roman history as heroes, dragons, princesses and destiny. recommended for Steiner-Waldorf Class 6. The Falconer: A Story of Frederick b/w illustrations | 112pp | Classes 2-8 | £8.99 224pp | Class 6 | £9.99 II of Hohenstaufen Milon and the Lion At the Hot Gates: An Account of CHRISTOPHER SBLENDORIO the Battle of Thermopylae An engaging account of the life and JAKOB STREIT times of Federico II, who became Holy DONALD SAMSON Young slave boy Milon has adventures Roman Emperor in the 13th century. around the ancient Mediterranean, A dramatic account of the battle 104pp | Classes 6+ | £8.99 finally finding freedom with a group of between the Spartans and the Persians. early Christians in Rome. b/w illustrations | 80pp | Classes 5-6 | £5.99 The Fire Bringer 10 b/w illustrations | 176pp | Class 6 | £8.99 SAMUEL MILLS An epic story that brings the great Olympian gods and goddesses to life for juvenile readers. 128pp | Classes 6-8 | £12.99
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MYTHOLOGY RELIGION & HISTORY & FESTIVALS (continued)
Myths of the World Christmas Seeking the Spirit: Whitsun PADRAIC COLUM HELMUT VON KÜGELGEN (ED) Inspiration for Individuals and ILLUS. BY BORIS ARTZYBASHEFF A collection of thoughts and reflections Communities A treasure trove of stories from the by Rudolf Steiner on the festival of HELMUT VON KÜGELGEN (ED) ancient world, retold by one of Ireland’s Christmas. A collection of thoughts and reflections greatest storytellers. 88pp | Classes 1-8 | £8.99 by Rudolf Steiner on festival of Whitsun. b/w illustrations | 328pp | Classes 5+ | £20.00 Easter 84pp | Classes 1-8 | £8.99 Norse Hero Tales: The King and the HELMUT VON KÜGELGEN (ED) Spiritual Insights Green Angelica and Other Stories A collection of thoughts and reflections HELMUT VON KÜGELGEN (ED) ISABEL WYATT by Rudolf Steiner on the festival of Easter. A collection of thoughts and reflections Colourful and dramatic stories from 60pp | Pamphlet | Classes 1-8 | £8.99 by Rudolf Steiner on spiritual issues. the ‘men of the North’, offering heroes 76pp | Pamphlet | Classes 1-8 | £8.99 and villains in tales of love and daring, Love power and cunning. HELMUT VON KÜGELGEN (ED) Working with the Dead b/w illustrations | 112pp | Class 4 | £8.99 A collection of thoughts and reflections HELMUT VON KÜGELGEN (ED) by Rudolf Steiner on the subject of love. Norse Mythology A collection of thoughts and reflections 46pp | Classes 1-8 | £8.99 by Rudolf Steiner on death and those CHARLES KOVACS Michaelmas who have died. A retelling of the stories of Norse 38pp | Classes 1-8 | £8.99 mythology as recommended for the HELMUT VON KÜGELGEN (ED) Steiner-Waldorf curriculum Class 4. A collection of thoughts and reflections 224pp | Class 4 | £9.99 by Rudolf Steiner on the festival of You may also find the following Michaelmas. books useful: Roman Lives 40pp | Pamphlet | Classes 1-8 | £8.99 On page 15 DOROTHY HARRER Religious Education in Steiner- A detailed and fascinating history of the Waldorf Schools: Extracts from • Nativity Plays for Children Roman world from Class 6 (age 12-13). Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures and colour illustrations | 124pp | Class 6 | £20.00 On page 22 Meetings • The Christmas Story Book HELMUT VON KÜGELGEN AND TILDE Three Knight Tales VON EIFF (EDS) • The Easter Story Book JAKOB STREIT A comprehensive collection of Rudolf • Mary’s Little Donkey A stirring collection of three medieval Steiner’s thoughts and ideas on teaching On page 30–31 tales for children, for use in Steiner- religion in Steiner-Waldorf schools. Waldorf Years 6 or 7 (age 12-14). 192pp | Classes 1-8 | £16.99 • The Advent Craft and b/w illustrations | 76pp | Classes 6–7 | £8.99 Activity Book • Making a Nativity Scene
26 | NEW Exploring & learning with nature, whether rain or shine “Children love to play inside and outside, and with nature, whatever the weather – rain or shine. They want to learn which creatures live in a pond and explore life in the mud. Children want to learn sewing, dyeing and sawing. They are inquisitive, inventive and daring.”
rom racing boats to weaving nests and even building an insect hotel, Spring and Summer Activities Come Rain or Shine is the perfect inspiration for nature activities big and small. Craft professional Stefanie Pfister brings together projects and games to encourage Fchildren to explore nature. On the next two pages, we’ve included some activities that you can try with your own class, or with your family. Each project has simple step-by- step instructions and needs only basic supplies. Each activity is suitable for children aged four and up, and can be enjoyed by individual children or whole classes.
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LOWER SCHOOL: CREATIVE ARTS | 27 Making and racing sailing rafts Shine
You’ll need: 3. Cut out a piece of fabric and • thin twigs the same length (hazel make a hole in the top and works well) bottom. Thread it over the mast-twig to make a sail. • two thicker twigs the same length • long pieces of string 4. Have a race using the boats you’ve made. Tie a long • longer twig for a mast string to your boat and pull • two short twigs to secure it it along behind you. That • piece of fabric way when the current gets • scissors stronger you can still control it and it won’t get lost. 1. Place several thin twigs of 5. Walk beside your boat to the same length beside each steer it out the shallows. Will other. Place the two thicker it capsize in the rapids? twigs on top of these facing the opposite way. 6. Use coloured flags or leaves to mark your boat so you 2. Using a long piece of string, know which one is yours in tie all the thin twigs to the the heat of the race. thicker cross-twigs. Insert a longer twig into the centre of the raft to make the mast and knot it in place. Secure it with two shorter twigs at the base if you need to.
Making pressed flowers to decorate Easter eggs
You’ll need: 1. Gather flowers from your garden 3. Place the book underneath a • small flowers Rain or woodland. Make sure they are few other heavy books and • glue clean and dry. leave them for up to four weeks. • hard-boiled egg 2. Find a heavy book and open it Smaller flowers may take less • thick heavy books near the middle. Line one page time than larger ones. You can • several sheets of paper with greaseproof paper then check by gently peeling away • greaseproof or baking paper plain paper, and put the flowers the edge of the papers to see if on top. On top of the flowers, the flowers are dry. Once you’re add another sheet of plain sure the flowers are ready, gently paper followed by greaseproof. peel away the rest of the paper. Close the book to squash the 4. Carefully stick the flowers to flowers between the pages. The hard-boiled eggs with glue. greaseproof paper will protect 5. Use your eggs to decorate the the book from any liquid that Easter table or your house. might come out of the flowers.
28 | STEINER-WALDORF EDUCATION 2017 Rain or Growing your own cuttings Shine
First, take a separate pot for For cuttings of spider plants or You’ll need: 1. 4. each cutting and fill them with creeping rock foil, make a hole • plant pots compost. Water them so they – not too deep – in the compost. • watering can become damp. Put the stem of the plant into it, • compost Carefully nip the offshoot away refill the hole and press the soil • small scissors 2. from the main plant with your down around the stem. Carefully • tweezers fingernails, tweezers or small water the compost around the • small trowel or spade scissors. planted offshoots. • preserving jars or plastic bags To keep the soil moist, place • elastic bands 3. Push the stalk of the cutting 5. a preserving jar over each • glass jars filled with a little into the compost in the pot and flowerpot. The jar must fit water carefully press the soil down exactly. If you don’t have a • plants with offshoots (spider around it. This gives the plant suitable jar, put a transparent plant, piggyback plant, or contact with the soil and allows plastic bag over the pot and creeping rock foil are ideal) it to grow roots. The base of the leaf should be just in the compost. secure it with an elastic band. 6. Leave the jar or plastic bag over the pot until the leaves are visibly growing. This shows that the roots of the plants are well developed, at which point you can take off the plastic bag or jar and allow the plants to grow freely.
Spring and Summer Activities Come can be enjoyed both individually and in Rain or Shine is a practical and brightly groups, and in any weather. illustrated book packed with indoor and outdoor crafts and activities, plus fun facts For more information on this book to spark children’s curiousity about nature. and other seasonal craft and activity books, including the companion book Ideal for teachers working with children Autumn and Winter Activities Come Rain aged four and up, many of the activities or Shine, see p.32
LOWER SCHOOL: CREATIVE ARTS | 29 LOWER SCHOOL: CREATIVE ARTS CRAFTS & ACTIVITIES
The Advent Craft and Activity The Christmas Craft Book Earth, Water, Fire and Air: Playful Book: Stories, crafts, recipes and THOMAS BERGER Explorations in the Four Elements poems for the Christmas season Making crib figures, candles, lanterns, WALTER KRAUL CHRISTEL DHOM angels, Advent calendars and a variety Encourages children’s interest in the A fabulous resource for the Christmas of Christmas tree decorations will natural world with a range of activities, season with a wonderful traditional help children engage with Advent and games and toys to make using one German flavour. Christmas. of the four elements. Also introduces colour illus. | 144pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 colour illus. | 80pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99 some basic science, such as gravity, momentum and light refraction, in fun Crafts Through the Year and creative ways. Autumn and Winter Activities colour illus. | 104pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 Come Rain or Shine: Seasonal THOMAS AND PETRA BERGER Crafts and Games for Children Step-by-step instructions for making a range of toys and decorations to help Earthwise: Environmental Crafts STEFANIE PFISTER children engage with festivals and and Activities With Young Children A practical and brightly illustrated book seasons of the year. CAROL PETRASH packed with indoor and outdoor crafts colour illus. | 176pp | Classes 1–8 | £14.99 Full of practical ideas for nature crafts and activities, plus fun facts to engage and seasonal activities to encourage children during the colder and wetter Creative Felt: Felting and Making young children to be aware of their months. Both individual and group More Toys and Gifts environment. Carefully written and activities for 4 years and up. Ideal for ANGELIKA WOLK-GERCHE beautifully illustrated. parents and teachers. Now in an expanded edition, this book 80 illustrations | 160pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 colour illus. | 120pp | Classes 1-8 | £12.99 teaches you how to make felt itself, as Read an extract from the well as an even wider range of toys and A Felt Farm companion book on p.27 gifts, such as beautiful hats, brooches ROTRAUD REINHARD and dolls, with no previous experience. A unique craft book containing step-by- Autumn Nature Activities colour illus. | 192pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 step instructions to make an entire farm for Children out of felt, including a family, animals IRMGARD KUTSCH Creative Wool: Making Woollen and the farmyard itself. AND BRIGITTE WALDEN Crafts with Children colour illus. | 160pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 Nature activities to help children engage KARIN NEUSCHÜTZ with the autumn season. Includes A lively craft book which shows how Feltcraft: Making Dolls, Gifts & Toys fruit-picking, basket-making, building to make toys, jewellery, dolls and lots PETRA BERGER shelters, feeding the birds, working with more from fleece and yarn. A range of Detailed instructions for a range of beeswax and making paper. projects for children of all ages. lively and creative ideas, such as small colour illus. | 96pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 colour illus. | 80pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 dolls, finger and glove puppets, animals, finger- and wrist-bands, little gifts and even wall tapestries. colour illus. | 96pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99
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Finger Strings: A Book of Cat’s Making Fairy Tale Scenes Cradles and String Figures Knit Together, Share Together: Simple Knitting for All the Family SYBILLE ADOLPHI MICHAEL TAYLOR MARJA DE HAAN Instructions for making doll scenes from Over 80 inventive and imaginative shapes Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping and figures to create with finger strings. A practical and beautifully illustrated Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Tom Thumb, book for three generations of knitters, colour illus. | 144pp | Spiral | Classes 1–8 | £14.99 Rapunzel, and Snow White and the featuring projects suitable for every Seven Dwarves and many more. astage of experience: from simple dolls’ First Steps In Natural Dyeing colour illus. | 96pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 clothes for beginners, to sweaters for JOAN ALMON children and adults. Making Flower Children Recipes and resources for colouring colour illus. | 88pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 fabric with plant dyes. SYBILLE ADOLPHI 34pp | Spiral bound | Classes 1-8 | £9.99 Detailed step-by-step instructions and Magic Wool: Creative Pictures and illustrations for making a range of The Gnome Craft Book Tableaux with Natural Sheep’s Wool lively, creative flower figures. THOMAS AND PETRA BERGER FREYA JAFFKE AND DAGMAR SCHMIDT colour illus. | 80pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99 Gnome crafts offer a wealth of Shows how to create beautiful pictures, possibilities for activities with children. Making More Flower Children as well as table-top scenes, from unspun SYBILLE ADOLPHI This books shows how to make gnomes sheep’s wool. out of walnuts, twigs, wool and paper colour illustrations | 80pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99 This book contains all the patterns and other materials. and instructions you will need to colour illus. | 96pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 Magical Window Stars make your own flower children, and is FRÉDÉRIQUE GUÉRET clearly illustrated with diagrams and Green Fingers and Muddy Boots: photographs. The figures are arranged A Year in the Garden for Children Step-by-step instructions for creating by time of year and are ideal for 25 window stars from tissue paper. decorating a seasonal table. and Families colour illus. | 120pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 IVOR SANTER colour illus. | 88pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99 Fun and practical activities to do in the Making a Nativity Scene: garden every month of the year, ranging Christmas Figures and Animals for Making Natural Felt Animals from growing flowers and vegetables, to a Seasonal Display ROTRAUD REINHARD spotting birds and tracking the weather. VIOLA ULKE colour illus. | 112pp | Classes 2–6 | £14.99 inc VAT From lazy cats to jumping squirrels, this Fully illustrated step-by-step richly illustrated book offers step-by- instructions for make a nativity scene, step instructions to create more than 25 including all the main figures, animals different animals, in different stances and a variety of stables. Also includes and sizes, using the authors unique themed songs and a Christmas play. ‘building-up’ felt craft method. colour illus. | 112pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 colour illus. | 172pp | Classes 1–8 | £14.99
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The Nature Corner: Spring and Summer Activities Transparent Window Scenes Celebrating the year’s cycle Come Rain or Shine: Seasonal Through the Year with seasonal tableaux Crafts and Games for Children MICHAELA KRONSHAGE M. VAN LEEUWEN STEFANIE PFISTER AND SYLVIA SCHWARTZ AND J. MOESKOPS This practical and brightly illustrated Make beautiful seasonal window scenes Seasonal nature tables are an invaluable book is packed with indoor and for home or school with the patterns way of making children aware of the outdoor crafts and activities, plus fun and templates in this book. changing cycle of the year. With simple facts. Ideal for parents and teachers colour illus. | 60pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99 materials a series of colourful and working with children aged four and effective tableaux can be made at home up. Many activities can be enjoyed both or in school. individually and in groups. Weaving with Children colour illus. | 88pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99 colour illus. | 120pp | Classes 1–8 | £14.99 UTE FISCHER Paper Folding with Children: Read an extract on p.27 Step-by-step illustrated instructions for weaving a wonderful variety of objects. Fun and Easy Origami Projects Ideal for parents or teachers working ALICE HÖRNECKE Spring Nature Activities for Children IRMGARD KUTSCH with children. Over twenty fun paper folding projects colour illus. | 104pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 for children, fully illustrated with AND BRIGITTE WALDEN diagrams and tips. Fun nature activities to help children Winter Nature Activities colour illustrations | 64pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99 engage with the seasons and learn new for Children skills. Includes building bird boxes, sprouting seeds, planting a garden and IRMGARD KUTSCH Papercraft AND BRIGITTE WALDEN ANGELIKA WOLK-GERCHE making dyes. colour illus. | 96pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 Activities for winter include Advent Over one hundred things to make crafts, working with wool, woodworking with paper, including stars, birds and Summer Nature Activities and making things out of clay. animals, masks, windmills and bags. for Children colour illus. | 96pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 colour illus. | 96pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 IRMGARD KUTSCH AND BRIGITTE WALDEN The Wonder of Trees: Sewing Dolls Nature Activities for Children KARIN NEUSCHÜTZ Includes growing and cooking fresh herbs, caring for butterflies, activities based ANDREA FROMMHERZ Patterns, instructions and photographs around water, fire, earth and air, and AND EDITH BIEDERMANN for making a variety of dolls from working with grain and making bread. Stories, songs, games and craft ideas natural materials. colour illus. | 80pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 as well as simple recipes and remedies, colour illus. | 112pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 to help children engage with and learn Toymaking with Children about the secrets, magic and wisdom FREYA JAFFKE of trees. colour illus. | 144pp | Classes 1–8 | £14.99 Step-by-step instructions, fully illustrated, for making a wide variety of toys to help children’s developing skills, creativity and imagination at different ages. colour illus. | 144pp | Classes 1–8 | £12.99
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32 | MUSIC HANDWORK Learning about the World through At Home In Harmony: Bringing Arts and Crafts in Waldorf Schools: Modeling: Sculptural Ideas for Families and Communities An Integrated Approach School and Home Together in Song MICHAEL MARTIN (ED) ARTHUR AND ELIZABETH AUER MEG CHITTENDEN Written by experienced Waldorf craft A resource book of practical modelling A unique book that provides the tools teachers, this comprehensive book projects for parents and teachers to use for families to learn to sing together in presents many ideas for craft-based with children. harmony. Includes an audio CD. classes, whilst analysing their role in over 150 b/w illus. | 226pp | Classes 1-8 | £20.00 colour illus. | 120pp | Classes 1-8 | £22.50 + VAT the student’s self-discovery and creative development. Will-Developed Intelligence: The over 300 b/w illus. | 288pp | Classes 1-8 | £20.00 Handwork and Practical Arts Music from Around the World for Curriculum in Waldorf Schools Recorders: Ensemble Music for Descant, Alto and Tenor Recorders Basic Sculptural Modeling: DAVID MITCHELL AND in Waldorf Schools Developing the Will by Working PATRICIA LIVINGSTON MICHAEL PRESTON with Pure Forms in the First Explores the craft curriculum for Classes 1 to 8 and through High School, A joyful collection of folk music from Three Grades HELLA LOEWE considering the benefits of particular different cultural backgrounds, scored activities for children’s cognition and for school records from Class 5 and up. A detailed look at modelling in the developing will. b/w illus., music | 128pp | Spiral | Classes 5+ | £14.99 Steiner-Waldorf curriculum, and how it colour illus. | 210pp | Classes 1-12 | £20.00 can be used in a class with social and Music Through the Grades in the behavioural challenges. Woodworking with Children 45 b/w photos | 114pp | Classes 1–3 | £14.99 Light of the Developing Child ANETTE GRUNDITZ AND ULF ERIXON DIANE INGRAHAM BARNES (ED) Thirty fun, child-friendly woodworking A resource book for music with over Creative Pathways: Activities That Strengthen The Child’s Cognitive projects for all levels of experience. 200 songs. Includes three audio CDs to colour illustrations | 80pp | Classes 1–8 | £9.99 assist teachers who don’t read music. Forces 192pp | Spiral bound | Classes 1–8 | £30.00 inc VAT ELIZABETH AUER Shares the benefits to children’s Recorder Ensemble: First Collection development of integrating arts and for Soprano, Alto, Tenor & Bass practical handwork into academic STEVE BERNSTEIN learning. A rich and varied collection of 15 four- colour illus. | 96pp | Classes 1–8 | £14.99 part recorder pieces for schools. This is a useful resource for any class teacher or Educating the Will music teacher, graded by difficulty. MICHAEL HOWARD 32pp | Classes 5-8 | £9.99 Explores the nature of the ‘will’ in children, and offers practical exercises A Waldorf Song Book based on sculpture to help develop the BRIEN MASTERS (ED) will in a healthy, positive way. Over 100 songs for use in schools, 43 b/w illus. | 124pp | Classes 1-8 | £14.99 arranged by age and time of year. incl. music | 176pp | Spiral | Classes 3–8 | £14.99
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| 33 The role played by drama We spoke to author Nell Smyth following the publication of her book Drama at the Heart, a warm and practical guide based on her experiences teaching and integrating drama in a Steiner-Waldorf environment.
hat attracted you to fore: humour, imagination, a sense for that that we could go much further to teaching in Steiner- each other, discipline and good work, draw out aspects of learning that were Waldorf schools? creativity and deep satisfaction and implicit and make them more explicit growth for everyone as latent things in and joyfully celebrated. Given the WThe deep understanding of the life of a group and in the child are freedom we have as Steiner teachers, the developmental stages of childhood, revealed. It needs to be a celebration of we have the opportunity to stretch time the creative and imaginative approach key themes in the curriculum. and integrate more drama, and to enable and the atmosphere of calm and vitality an immersion in drama while learning a I sensed in the classrooms. Where did the idea for Drama at the Heart wide variety of subjects. come from? By giving more time to drama we What do you enjoy the most about being deepen all kinds of learning and vital a Steiner-Waldorf teacher? From seeing how fellow colleagues were relevant skills in an area of expression so burdened by what I loved doing. I felt most young people love. The deep relationship we forge with the children and parents, the richness of the curriculum and its potential for imaginative and inspirational learning; the collaborative way of working with colleagues where a shared vision informs the perspective.
What role do you think drama plays in Steiner-Waldorf schools? A sample storyboard, It animates and activates the potential taken from for more fully engaged learning, Drama at bringing many human qualities to the the Heart.
34 | STEINER-WALDORF EDUCATION 2017 What are you hoping your book will How does teaching compare to writing? What advice would you give to other achieve? Are there any similarities? teachers who would like to share their knowledge and expertise? I hope that more teachers will be inspired Writing that comes out of teaching is to integrate drama into their teaching and the best! I see it as an organic process Map it, expect loads of rewrites, enjoy will explore writing plays. but the inspiration is based on what being edited and trust the process to is catalysed by working with young show you what it needs to be. It can What do you enjoy about being an author? people and with teachers through their take a long time but that is good as it questions, challenges and discoveries; enables a maturation and savouring of Crystallising and discovering what I through a shared dialogue. your material! know intuitively; sharing my enjoyment and finding those ideas that make sense to, or can help, others.
Drama, well-integrated into a curriculum, can bring empathy, excitement, expression and engagement into any lesson. In the following extract from Drama at the Heart, Nell Smyth reflects on her own experiences of taking inspiration from students’ passions to create enjoyable classroom experiences.
e can draw on students’ drawn directly from a student’s devotion potential of everyday resources. Let various skills and talents to skateboarding. On other occasions, we them create obstacle courses out of the to build a wide range vaulted as Cretan bull dancers and Greek familiar environment, as they recreate of physical and athletic athletes; leapfrogged as Russian clowns the room to be their imaginative world. Wactivities directly into the drama and and French medieval buffoons; played This contagious joy transfers directly give it great vitality. In fact, plays offer badminton and chasing games on stage; to an audience as the children’s acts of a great forum and motivator to develop danced the tango; climbed up and fell off daring and surprising movement will and refine such skills. Circus skills such ship masts; swashbuckled with swords; have them smiling and gasping. When as juggling, trapeze, and unicycling can swung on swings and rope ladders, and this vitality and animation enlivens really open up the performing space to made a mountain out of desks and chairs. and excites everyone in the room, the get out of the dreaded two dimensions Children delight in deploying skills in play becomes what it is meant to be: a (only good for shadow play or glove which they are already accomplished. magnifier of magic and a gift between puppets). We once used a skateboard This, combined with a love of turning performers and audience. for the clownish character Costard in the usually ordered room upside down, Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, helps them rediscover the imaginative
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Whether for one lesson or a whole touring Nell Smyth has been a Steiner-Waldorf production, Drama at the Heart guides teacher and trainer for over twenty-five teachers through finding the right play for years in Europe and America. She has taught the age group and all aspects of rehearsal at primary, secondary and tertiary level and and staging. This warm and practical book currently teaches at ALFA (Raheen Wood is packed full of sensible, down-to-earth Steiner Secondary School) . advice, helpful tips and funny stories based on Nell Smyth’s extensive experience. Paperback | 240pp | £14.99
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Educating Through Art: The Clothing the Play: The Art and An Illustrated Guide to Everyday Steiner School Approach Craft of Stage Design Eurythmy: Discover Balance and AGNES NOBEL ROSWITHA SPENCE Self-Healing through Movement Investigates why Steiner-Waldorf A comprehensive resource for teachers BARBARA TAPFER schools attach such importance to art and others covering all aspects of stage AND ANNETTE WEISSKIRCHER in education and why Rudolf Steiner and costume design for putting on a play. Describes and illustrates through himself brought artistic training into all colour illus. | 112pp | Classes 1-8 | £14.99 photographs the core speech-sound fields of further education. exercises of eurythmy, to help people illustrated | 308pp | Classes 1-8 | £16.99 practise eurythmy at home. Drama at the Heart: Teaching colour illustrations | 168pp | £14.99 Drama in Steiner-Waldorf Schools Learning To See the World NELL SMYTH Through Drawing: Practical Advice This book will help teachers to work Pedagogical Theater: Dramaturgy for the Classroom: Grades One successfully with drama in their and Performance Practice for the Through Eight classroom in a rewarding, holistic way. Lower, Middle and High School ELIZABETH AUER b/w line drawings | 240pp | Classes 1-8 | £14.99 ARTHUR M. PITTIS A guide and resource book for Steiner- Read an extract on p.34 A comprehensive overview of the history Waldorf class teachers who need extra of theatre used in teaching, and how drama support and encouragement with drawing. can help children learn more deeply. colour illus. | 132pp | Classes 1-8 | £20.00 Eureka! The Life and Times of 288pp | Classes 1-12 | £16.99 Archimedes: A Musical Play in One Act The Rainbow Puppet Theater Book: Painting and Drawing in Waldorf JOHN TREVILLION Fourteen Classic Puppet Plays Schools: Classes 1 to 8 An ingenious play which presents ESTELLE BRYER THOMAS WILDGRUBER highlights of the life and death of this Fourteen play for puppets, especially A comprehensive teachers’ manual, master of maths and science. adapted by master puppeteer Estelle providing a complete artistic curriculum 128pp | Classes 5-12 | £12.99 Bryer. A wonderful resource book for for the Lower School. Steiner-Waldorf teachers. colour illus. | 384pp | Classes 1–8 | £20.00 Eurythmy: A Short Introduction to 166pp | Classes 1-8 | £14.99 the Art of Movement Painting in Waldorf Education THOMAS POPLAWSKI Three Plays for Small Classes: DICK BRUIN AND ATTIE LICHTHART A concise but informative guide to A thorough study of watercolour the three main strands of eurythmy: Robin Hood; The Philosopher’s painting in the Waldorf curriculum. performance, education and therapy. Stone; The Silver Shoes illus. | 216pp | Classes 1–12 | £14.99 colour illus. | 128pp | Classes 1-12 | £7.99 VIVIAN JONES SCHMIDT Three plays designed for small classes in Painting With Children Five Plays for Waldorf Festivals Steiner Waldorf schools. BRUNHILD MÜLLER RICHARD MOORE 80pp | Classes 1-8 | £14.99 Ideas for encouraging a child’s self- A collection of seasonal plays for expression through watercolour painting. Steiner-Waldorf Lower School classes. Essentially practical, this book is based 56pp | Pamphlet | Classes 1–8 | £12.99 on Goethe’s colour theory and is an invaluable guide for parents and teachers. colour illus. | 48pp | Classes 1–8 | £7.99
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36 | NEW Making maths meaningful Experienced maths teacher and consultant Jamie York believes that a love of learning comes through the teacher. In this extract, he shares key tips for encouraging enjoyment and engagement in maths.
e want our students to Allow for depth. Offer interesting material. experience maths as an The tendency in the mainstream is to Engaging the students in the material is adventure, and to feel teach too many topics. This leads to an important part of the art of teaching. that maths is a profoundly superficiality. By covering a topic in Practical applications can make the Whuman endeavour. depth, we allow thinking to develop material interesting to the students. But What makes maths meaningful? For more effectively. often a good puzzle, or a new type of starters, no workbook or textbook can problem, can catch the students’ interest, make maths meaningful. Only the teacher Challenge the students. as long as it is presented in the right way. can make maths meaningful and inspire Every student should be challenged the students. Here are some ideas to help appropriately. The teacher needs to Provide the historical context. make maths meaningful: ensure that the level of challenge is It makes it quite meaningful for the manageable and allows for the students students to realise that they are living Make it developmentally appropriate. to feel successful. and breathing the same thoughts that The question should not be: ‘Are the the greatest minds in history have also children able to learn this material “We want our students to struggled with. now?’, but rather: ‘Are the children developmentally ready for this material?’ experience maths as an adventure.” Work with questions. Does the topic at hand answer a real Transform struggle into success. question that lives within the student? The greatest feeling of success doesn’t It is quite meaningful for the students come from doing something easy. It when they are able to answer a question comes from working through struggle that they have been living with. and accomplishing something that had seemed rather impossible.
A Teacher’s Source Book for Mathematics available individually or in a Teacher Pack in Classes 6–8 provides a direct and logical of 10 workbooks with a free answer booklet. approach to teaching 12 to 15-year-olds New for 2017: A Teacher’s Source Book maths. Each class level and topic provide for Mathematics in Classes 1–5. See p.38 numerous tried and tested examples and explanations and can be used in conjunction with specially-developed workbooks, Paperback | 192pp | £20.00
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Active Arithmetic!: Movement Mathematics in Nature, Space and Mathematics Teaching in the and Time A Student’s Workbook for Mathematics in Class 7 Lower Grades of a Waldorf School JOHN BLACKWOOD JAMIE YORK HENNING ANDERSON A teachers’ book for maths covering A student’s maths workbook for Class Explores techniques for making maths ‘Mathematics in Nature’, ‘Pythagoras 7 (age 13-14), with room for working, lessons more engaging and real for and Numbers’, ‘Platonic Solids’ and covering all essential topics for that year. children, using movement and drawing. ‘Rhythm and Cycles’. 112pp | Class 7 | Single book | £9.99 216pp | Classes 1–4 | £12.99 colour illus. | 216pp | Classes 7–8 | £16.99 Mathematics Lessons for the Teacher’s pack First Steps in Proven Geometry for 10 books & free answer booklet £70.00 the Upper Elemetary Grades Sixth Grade ERNST SCHUBERTH ERNST SCHUBERTH A resource for teaching geometry in A comprehensive curriculum for A Student’s Workbook for Class 6, focusing on triangles and teaching maths in Class 6 (age 11-12) of Mathematics in Class 8 platonic solids. the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum. JAMIE YORK 136 b/w illustrations | 96pp | Class 6 | £12.99 156pp | Class 6 | £14.99 A student’s maths workbook for Class Geometry and the Imagination: Numerica: A Waldorf Book 8 (age 14-15), with room for working, The Imaginative Treatment of of Counting covering all essential topics for that year. Geometry in Waldorf Education GLORIA KEMP 60pp | Class 8 | Single book | £6.99 A. RENWICK SHEEN ILLUS. BY ELSA MURRAY-LAFRENZ Teacher’s pack A comprehensive resource book for A story which brings numbers to young 10 books & free answer booklet £50.00 Geometry for Classes 6 to 8 and High children by drawing on the natural School mathematics. world around them. b/w illus./diagrams | 256pp | Classes 6–12 | £20.00 colour illus. | 36pp | Hb | Classes 1-2 | £14.99 A Teacher’s Source Book for Geometry Lessons in the Waldorf Mathematics in Classes 1 to 5 School: Volume 2: Freehand Form A Student’s Workbook for JAMIE YORK AND NETTIE FABRIE Drawing and Basic Geometric Mathematics in Class 6 A comprehensive book for teachers of Construction in Grades 4 and 5 JAMIE YORK mathematics in Classes 1-5 (age 6-11). 128pp | Classes 1-5 | £20.00 ERNST SCHUBERTH A student’s maths workbook for Class b/w illus. | 86pp | Classes 4–5 | £14.99 inc VAT 6 (age 12-13), with room for working, covering all essential topics for that year. A Teacher’s Source Book for Math Lessons for Elementary 60pp | Class 6 | Single book | £6.99 Grades Mathematics in Classes 6 to 8 DOROTHY HARRER Teacher’s pack JAMIE YORK A comprehensive book for teachers of A wealth of imaginative maths lessons 10 books & free answer booklet £50.00 mathematics in Classes 6-8 (age 12-15). for class teachers of Classes 1 to 6 in the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum. b/w illustrations | 192pp | Classes 6-8 | £20.00 132pp | Classes 1–6 | £11.99 Read an extract on p.37
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Astronomy for Young and Old: A The Living World of the Plants: Beginner’s Guide to the Visible Sky A Book for Children and Students Sensible Physics Teaching: For Grades Six to Eight WALTER KRAUL of Nature MICHAEL D’ALEO AND A perfect introduction to astronomy for GERBERT GROHMANN STEPHEN EDELGLASS people of any age, whether or not they ILLUSTRATED BY LINDA LOMBARDI have a telescope. An essential book for any science A lovely resource for bringing botany or class teacher who wants to bring colour illus. | 144pp | Classes 1-8 | £14.99 alive in Steiner-Waldorf schools, from interactive, experiential science into Class 5. Botany their classroom. over 50 b/w illus. | 104pp | Class 5+ | £12.99 108pp | Classes 6-8 | £14.99 CHARLES KOVACS A resource for Steiner-Waldorf teachers Mr Goethe’s Garden for botany, Classes 5 and 6 (age 10-12). DIANA COHN Trailing Clouds of Glory: Essays 112pp | Classes 5–6 | £9.99 ILLUSTRATED BY PAUL MIROCHA on Human Sexuality and the Brings Goethe’s ideas on the plant world Education of Youth Chemistry for Waldorf Middle DOUGLAS GERWIN (ED) Schools: Grades Six, Seven to life for younger children. colour illus. | 32pp | Hb | Classes 1-3 | £14.99 Brings together insights from experienced and Eight: A Compendium of Waldorf teachers on how to approach Phenomenological Experiments Muscles and Bones the important but challenging subjects of ROBERT SONNER CHARLES KOVACS gender and sexuality. This is a rich resource book for Steiner- A teacher resource book for human 455pp | Classes 7–8 | £20.00 Waldorf teachers which offers a physiology and anatomy for Steiner- comprehensive set of ideas for teaching Waldorf Classes 7 and 8 (ages 12-14). The Wonders of Waldorf phenomenological chemistry. 10 b/w illus. | 208pp | Classes 7–8 | £9.99 Chemistry: From a Teacher’s colour illus. | 212pp | Spiral | Classes 6–8 | £65.00 Notebook, Grades 7-9 Physics for Waldorf Middle DAVID S. MITCHELL Geology and Astronomy Schools: Grades Six, Seven A complete curriculum for chemstry for CHARLES KOVACS and Eight: A Compendium of Years 7 to 9 in Steiner-Waldorf schools. Firstly explores first the rocks, soil Phenomenological Experiments b/w illus./diagrams | 272pp | Classes 7–9 | £20.00 and mountains of Earth; and then the ROBERT SONNER movement of our universe, the sun, This is a rich resource book for Steiner- moon and stars. A resource for Steiner- Waldorf teachers which offers a Waldorf teachers, Classes 6 and 7. comprehensive set of ideas for teaching 160pp | Classes 6–7 | £9.99 phenomenological physics. The Human Being and the colour illus. | 344pp | Spiral | Classes 6–8 | £65.00 Animal World Physics is Fun: A Sourcebook for CHARLES KOVACS Teachers A comparison of animals and humans, ROBERTO TROSTLI as recommended for Steiner-Waldorf A comprehensive teaching resource for curriculum Classes 4 and 5 (age 9-11). physics for Steiner-Waldorf Years 6 to 8. 144pp | Classes 4–5 | £9.99 b/w illus. | 286pp | Spiral | Classes 6–8 | £25.00
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EURYTHMY SCIENCE
Kinesthetic Learning for Earth Science for Waldorf Schools Topics in Mathematics for the Adolescents: Learning Through HANS-ULRICH SCHMUTZ Tenth Grade: Based on Teaching Movement and Eurythmy A comprehensive curriculum for Practices in Waldorf Schools LEONORE RUSSELL teaching earth science in Steiner- ROBERT NEUMANN (ED) Explores whether eurythmy and Waldorf schools Classes 9 to 12. b/w illus. | 224pp | Classes 9–12 | £16.99 Covers all the maths lesson blocks movement can be beneficial at High taught in Class 10 (age 15-16) in Waldorf School level, for Years 9 to 12. schools plus many practical, hand-on 19 b/w illus. | 146pp | Classes 9–12 | £14.99 Fundamentals for a Phenomenological Study exercises, hints and teaching tips. You might already be interested in: 184pp | Class 10 | £20.00 An Illustrated Guide to Everyday Eurythmy (p.36) of Chemistry FRITS H. JULIUS A detailed resource book for Steiner- Waldorf teachers of chemistry. Topics in Mathematics for the 312pp | Classes 9–12 | £25.00 Eleventh Grade: Based on Teaching LANGUAGE Practices in Waldorf Schools Rudolf Steiner and the Atom ROBERT NEUMANN (ED) KEITH FRANCIS & LITERATURE This book covers all the maths lesson Explores the connections between blocks taught in Class 11 (age 16-17) in materialist research on the atom and Waldorf schools, including: analytical Life Lessons: Reaching Teenagers Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science. geometry; projective geometry; spherical Through Literature 272pp | Classes 9-12 | £20.00 geometry and sequences and limits. DAVID SLOAN 288pp | Class 11 | £20.00 Examines literature suitable for the different years of a Waldorf high school, based on adolescents’ developmental stages. MATHS 192pp | Classes 9–12 | £14.99 Topics in Mathematics for the Twelfth Grade: Based on Teaching Parsifal and the Search for the Grail Drawing Geometry: A Primer of Practices in Waldorf Schools CHARLES KOVACS Basic Forms for Artists, Designers ROBERT NEUMANN (ED) Recommended for Steiner-Waldorf and Architects This book covers all the maths lesson teachers of Class 11 (age 16-17) as a JON ALLEN blocks taught in Class 12 (age 17-18) in way of introducing world literature. Teaches professionals how to draw two- Waldorf schools, including all aspects of 128pp | Class 11 | £9.99 dimensional geometric shapes in simple differential and integral calculus. step-by-step instructions. 192pp | Class 12 | £20.00 The Three Candles of Little colour illus. | 88pp | Classes 9-12 | £12.99 Veronica: The Story of a Child’s Soul in This World and the Other Projective Geometry MANFRED KYBER LAWRENCE EDWARDS ILLUSTRATED BY IRIS GUARDUCCI A clear and artistic understanding of the A classic novel from the 1920s which tells qualities of projective geometry. Useful a remarkable story in the Grail tradition. for high school Steiner-Waldorf teachers. colour illus. | 196pp | Classes 9-12 | £12.99 200+ diagrams | 352pp | Classes 9–12 | £20.00
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FUNDRAISING | 41 Well versed in healing
In this extract from Report Verses in Rudolf Steiner’s Art of Education, Heinz Müller reflects on the powers and practicalities of the report verse, and his own unique experiences of using verses with children.
first came to ask about using here was to write a verse for the child very soon feel so unhappy about it you speech as a healing aid for a with short lines, each one of which would waste no time in trying to make particular child when Rudolf passed from a strongly emphasised something better.” Steiner was informing himself word at the beginning to one similarly The rhythm resulting from this first aboutI every one of the children in my emphatic at the end. For just this child, indication, the choriamb (– ˘ ˘ –), in first class – a small one – in the Waldorf it was important for the teacher to which two unaccented syllables stand School in Wandsbek in Hamburg. He take the trouble to compose such a between two accented, has something had sent me there at Easter 1923. After verse themselves. “That’s possible for awakening, arresting about it, especially our first talk about my class he not every teacher,” he smilingly added. He through the emphasis at the end of a line only knew every child by name, but dispensed with the objection that with being followed immediately by that at also all their characteristics as I had a poor verse one might even harm the the beginning of the next. In each line described them, and as were indicated child, by saying, “You would be letting a quality of clear, purposeful striving also in the paintings and drawings I the child repeat the verse from time to prevails. It is important with this kind had shown him. He had a clear picture time. If it were really bad, you would of verse that every line should be spoken of them even down to their social and on a full single breath. family circumstances. And afterwards “He not only knew A verse which took shape on the basis he inquired about every single child every child by name, of the above indication went as follows: whenever he saw me at a conference or during the holidays in Stuttgart. but also all their 1. Wake, thou my head, There was a girl in my class who characteristics as I Love, thou my heart, was always in danger of losing herself; had described them, Help, thou my hand! she was very sanguine and nervous What then I do, and her speech was more like that of a and as were indicated Right will it be, younger child. It was much too high, a also in the paintings Fair, rev’rent, good. kind of cheeping, with the I (English ee) and drawings I had and E (as in late) sounds in particular In the last line there are three emphasised often shrill. Rudolf Steiner’s advice shown him.” syllables and only one unemphasised.
42 | STEINER-WALDORF EDUCATION 2017 A deliberate change of rhythm always has In the last two lines, small changes Just how strongly young adults can an arousing effect. In the actual saying in rhythm have again been purposely continue to feel their connection with a of the verse, one must take care that the made; besides their moving into dactyls, verse they received at school when they change of rhythm comes out clearly. we have the verse-foot “wood birds now” were children was once brought home to Rudolf Steiner spoke also of other with two emphasised syllables at the me by a former pupil. After taking her things which need to be taken into beginning rather than two unemphasised exams she sent me the report verse she account when making report verses. at the end. We have the same thing had been given in her eleventh year, and For example, in choosing the metre again in the last line with the second wrote that this had been a guidance to to be used it is a good thing to start foot. A more intimate feeling for these her in every circumstance up till then. off with one that goes along with the rhythmic variations makes plain that It went as follows: temperament of the child. Thus with they can be consciously followed only sanguine children you should begin with with a noticeably increased effort of 5. In nooks and crannies ’neath light, dancing syllables and then come to will, which is just what is called for woodland’s deep shade rest by way of emphasised syllables. In with phlegmatic children. However There ferns and soft mosses are the first lines you could use theanapest questionable such liberties may be growing; ( ˘ ˘ –) and then change to the iamb artistically, there is everything to be said No colours have they to light up ( ˘ –). For phlegmatic children the for them pedagogically. the dim glade, opposite would hold good: you could As have roses in gardens lead them over from the trochee ( – ˘) to “Where the picture a-glowing. the dactyl ( – ˘ ˘ ). or story employed Yet small though they may be, As an aside, Steiner made a They’re fashioned most finely. comparison with Hahnemann’s is sufficiently clear Great wonders of God we discern homoeopathic method of healing like and penetrating, the E’en in algae and moss and in fern. with like. With a sanguine child, for individuality of the example, the picture in the verse should Now a young woman, she said that be of something passing from movement child extracts from it this verse had said a great deal to her in to rest; whereas with a phlegmatic child, what they need.” regard to her childhood vanity, and had it would need to go the opposite way. been a real help in her struggle with it. A verse for a phlegmatic child: Exactly this had been intended when the Rudolf Steiner once pointed out how verse was written fourteen years earlier. 4. Water ’neath the hill top lies. unnecessary it was for teachers to Still, deep hid from view, intersperse their stories and verses with Till at last from sleep ’twould rise, moral admonitions. Where the picture Valiant deeds to do. or story employed is sufficiently clear and penetrating, the individuality of the Down it streams through clefts child extracts from it what they need. confining, Before the age of twelve, children can Distant woodland scents divining, seldom bring to clear consciousness how Till at last from dark escaping, a verse or a story relates to themselves. Into sunlight it comes leaping. On the other hand, I have often had the Jubilant greeting the wood birds experience of saying a new verse in now sing, front of the class for the first time and Glad at the life-gift that flows the children at once recognising whom from the spring. among them it was meant for.
Report Verses in Rudolf Steiner’s Art of Heinz Müller was a teacher at the Rudolf Education explores Steiner’s recommendation Steiner School in Hamburg-Wandsbek for 42 that class teachers create verses for their years. The book includes many inspiring verses pupils to be inserted into their annual school that Müller wrote for his own students. reports. These are sometimes known in Europe as ‘report verses’, or ‘birthday verses’ Paperback | 120pp | £7.99 in America.
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EARLY YEARS LOWER & UPPER SCHOOL
Creating a Home for Body, Soul, Creating a Circle of Collaborative Finding Your Self: Supporting the and Spirit: A New Approach to Spiritual Leadership Inner Life of the Teacher Childcare ROBERTO TROSTLI (ED) TORIN M. FINSER BERNADETTE RAICHLE A collection of articles which shed light on An inspiring book to help the teacher A comprehensive guide to planning this unique system of school governance. turn away from external pressures and and running an anthroposophical 164pp | £16.99 cultivate their own inner resources. kindergarten. 80pp | £12.99 194pp | £20.00 Developing the Observing Eye: Teacher Observation & Assessment Partnerships of Hope: Building Mentoring in Waldorf Early in Early Childhood Education Waldorf School Communities Childhood Education CYNTHIA MURPHY-LANG CHRISTOPHER SCHAEFER NANCY FOSTER (ED) Guidance and tools to help teachers Addresses the challenges of building A comprehensive guide to mentoring, develop their observation skills. community, for the good of all. a process of mutual learning between 116pp | £9.99 illustrations | 208pp | £11.99 early childhood teachers. 136pp | Spiral bound | £12.99 Engaged Community: The Challenge of Self-governance in Report Verses in Rudolf Steiner’s Nurturing Children and Families: Waldorf Schools Art of Education: Healing Forces in Words and Their Rhythms One Model of a Parent/Child JON MCALICE HEINZ MÜLLER Program in a Waldorf School Provides the tools and language to think SARAH BALDWIN honestly and ambitiously about the An exploration of Rudolf Steiner’s recommendation that class teachers A comprehensive how-to guide for school structure. create verses for their pupils. anyone interested in beginning a parent/ 148pp | £14.99 child program in a Steiner-Waldorf 120pp | £7.99 Read an extract on p.42 context. Evaluation, Homework and b/w photographs | 98pp | £14.99 Teacher Support A School as a Living Entity DAVID MITCHELL (ED) Professional Review and REA TAYLOR GILL A rich collection which discusses the Evaluation in Waldorf Early Explains how a school can be a meaning and effectiveness of homework Childhood Education dynamic, effective and vibrant entity, and student evaluation. HOLLY KOTEEN-SOULÉ guided by the people who serve in it. 17 b/w illustrations | 136pp | £12.99 Time-tested advice and encouragement illustrations | 212pp | £16.99 for early years centres wishing to implement or strengthen their Finding Work-Life Balance: professional evaluation process. Achieving Fulfilment at Every 86pp | Spiral bound | £16.99 Stage of Life JOS VAN DER BRUG Explains how to improve work-life balance at every stage of our career. 64pp | £7.99 NEW
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A Developmental Signatures 8 H Difficult Children: There Is No Such Thing 8 Active Arithmetic! 38 Handbook for Steiner-Waldorf Class Teachers 4 Drama at the Heart 36 Advent Craft and Activity Book 30 Hay for My Ox and Other Stories 23 Drawing Geometry 40 Adventures in Parenting 8 Hellas 25 Dream Song of Olaf Asteson, The 25 Adventures of Scoochie Mouse 22 Helping Children Form Healthy Attachments 9 Age of Discovery, The 25 Helping Children on their Way 9 Age of Revolution, The 25 Homer’s Odyssey 25 Alpha Beta Book, The 18 E Human Being and the Animal World, The 39 Ancient Greece 25 Earth Science for Waldorf Schools 40 Ancient Rome 25 Earth, Water, Fire and Air 30 And There Was Light 22 Earthwise 30 I Andando Caminos 18 Easter 26 Illustrated Guide to Everyday Eurythmy, An 36 Arts and Crafts in Steiner-Waldorf Schools 33 Easter Story Book, The 22 Illustrated Treasury of Hans Christian Astronomy for Young and Old 39 Educating the Will 33 Andersen’s Fairy Tales, An 23 At Home In Harmony 33 Educating Through Art 36 Invisible Boat, The 23 At the Hot Gates 25 Educating Traumatized Children 8 Invisible Guardians 23 Autumn Winter Activities Rain or Shine 30 Education Towards Freedom 4 Autumn Nature Activities for Children 30 Eight-Year-Old Legend Book, The 22 Engaged Community 44 English Manual for the Elementary School 18 J B Eureka! The Life and Times of Archimedes 36 Jonathan’s Journey 15 Eurythmy 36 Basic Sculptural Modeling 33 Journey of the ‘I’ into Life, The 12 Evaluation, Homework and Teacher Support 44 Bee Book, The 22 Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme 18 Exploration into the Destiny of the Beejum Book, The 22 Journey to the Promised Land 23 Waldorf School Movement, An 4 Blue Forest, The 22 Botany 39 Brother Francis 22 K F Kinesthetic Learning for Adolescents 40 Fairy Tales and Art Mirrored in King of Ireland’s Son, The 23 C Human Consciousness 18 Kingdom of Beautiful Colours, The 23 Falconer, The 25 Care and Development Human Senses, The 8 Knit Together, Share Together 31 Favourite Collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, A 22 Celebrating Festivals with Children 15 Knottles, The 15 Felt Farm, A 30 Chapters from Ancient History 25 Feltcraft 30 Chemistry for Waldorf Middle Schools 39 Finding Work-Life Balance 44 Child from Birth to Three in Waldorf Finding Your Self 44 L Education and Child Care, The 12 Finger Strings 31 Language Teaching in SW Schools 18 Childhood’s Garden 12 Fire Bringer, The 25 Lara’s First Christmas 23 Children and Their Temperaments 8 Fire the Imagination – Write On! 18 Learning about World through Modeling 33 Children of Cyclops, The 8 First Grade Readiness 12 Learning To See World Through Drawing 36 Children’s Creative Play 8 First Steps In Natural Dyeing 31 Leave No Child Inside 4 Christ Legends 22 First Steps in Proven Geometry for the Legends of King Arthur 23 Christmas 26 Upper Elemetary Grades 38 Legends of the Norse Kings 25 Christmas Craft Book, The 30 First Three Years of the Child, The 8 Life Lessons 40 Christmas Story Book, The 22 Five Plays for Waldorf Festivals 36 Lifetime of Joy, A 14 Clothing the Play 36 For the Children of the World 15 Liputto 23 Completing the Circle 8 From Images to Thinking 8 Little Bee Sunbeam 23 Cradle of a Healthy Life 12 From Kindergarten into the Grades 12 Living World of the Plants, The 39 Crafts Through the Year 30 Fundamentals for a Phenomenological Love 26 Creating a Circle of Collaborative Study of Chemistry 40 Spiritual Leadership 44 Creating a Home for Body, Soul, and Spirit 44 Creating Connections 12 M Creative Felt 30 G Magic Wool 31 Creative Pathways 33 Geology and Astronomy 39 Magical Window Stars 31 Creative Wool 30 Geometry and the Imagination 38 Magical Wonder Tales 23 Creative Word, The 15 Geometry Lessons in the Waldorf School 38 Making a Nativity Scene 31 Geron and Virtus 22 Making Fairy Tale Scenes 31 Gesture Games for Autumn and Winter 14 Making Flower Children 31 D Gesture Games for Spring and Summer 14 Making More Flower Children 31 Gesture Games for Spring and Making Natural Felt Animals 31 Dancing Hand, Trotting Pony 14 Summer, Autumn and Winter 14 Managing Screen Time 9 Day Full of Song, A 14 Giving Love, Bringing Joy 14 Mary’s Little Donkey 23 Demon Slayer, The 25 Gnome Craft Book, The 31 Math Lessons for Elementary Grades 38 Developing Child: the First Seven Years 8 Grail Mystery and the Seven Liberal Arts 4 Mathematics in Nature, Space and Time 38 Developing the Observing Eye 44 Green Fingers and Muddy Boots 31 Mathematics Lessons for the Sixth Grade 38
46 | STEINER-WALDORF EDUCATION 2017 S Waldorf Song Book, A 33 Mentoring in Waldorf Early Warm and Gentle Welcome, A 13 Saint Martin 15 Childhood Education 44 Warmth 9 School as a Living Entity, A 44 Merrily We Sing 14 We Will Build a Temple 24 School Readiness Today 12 Michaelmas 26 Weaving with Children 32 Seasonal Festivals in Early Childhood, The 15 Milon and the Lion 25 What Animals Say to Each Other 24 Seeking the Spirit 26 Mood of the Fifth, The 14 What is a Waldorf Kindergarten? 13 Sensible Physics Teaching 39 Morality and Ethics in Education 9 Who Is Harry Potter? 19 Seven Life Processes, The 9 Movement for the Young Child 14 Why Children Don’t Listen 9 Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book, The 24 Mr Goethe’s Garden 39 Will-Developed Intelligence 33 Sewing Dolls 32 Multifaceted Life of Emil Molt, The 4 Winter Nature Activities for Children 32 Sexual Abuse Of Children 9 Muscles and Bones 39 Wisdom of Fairy Tales, The 19 Singing, Playing Kindergarten, The 14 Music from Around the World Recorders 33 Wise Enchanter, The 24 Snip Snap Snout! 24 Music Through the Grades in the Light Wonder of Trees, The 32 Spelling by Hand 19 of the Developing Child 33 Wonders of Waldorf Chemistry, The 39 Spirit of the Mountain 24 Myths of the World 26 Woodworking with Children 33 Spiritual Insights 26 Word Mastery Primer 19 Spring and Summer Activities Rain or Shine 32 Work and Play in Early Childhood 13 Spring Nature Activities for Children 32 Working with Anxious, Nervous and N Star Rider and Anna McLoon, The 24 Depressed Children 9 Steiner Education in Theory and Practice 4 Namaste! 24 Working with the Angels 13 Stories of the Saints 24 Nativity Plays for Children 15 Working with the Dead 26 Nature Corner, The 32 Storytelling for Life 19 Nokken: A Garden for Children 12 Student’s Workbook for Maths Class 6 38 Norse Hero Tales 26 Student’s Workbook for Maths Class 7 38 Norse Mythology 26 Student’s Workbook for Maths Class 8 38 Y Numerica 38 Summer Nature Activities for Children 32 Year in the Woods, A 13 Nurturing Children and Families 44 Sun with Loving Light, The 19 Young Child in the World Today, The 9 Nurturing Potential Kindergarten Years 12 Supporting Self-directed Play in SW You’re Not The Boss of Me! 13 Early Childhood Education 13
O On the Play of the Child 12 T Tasks and Content of the SW Curriculum 4 Teacher’s Source Book for Mathematics in Classes 6 to 8 38 P Teacher’s Source Book for Mathematics Painting and Drawing in Waldorf Schools 36 in Classes 1 to 5 38 Painting in Waldorf Education 36 Teaching Foreign Languages 19 Painting With Children 36 Tell Me A Story 13 Paper Folding with Children 32 Temperaments and the Arts, The 9 Papercraft 32 There Was Light 22 Parsifal 40 Three Candles of Little Veronica, The 42 Partnerships of Hope 44 Three Grimm’s Fairy Tales 24 Pedagogical Theater 36 Three Knight Tales 26 Peter and Anneli’s Journey to the Moon 24 Three Plays for Small Classes 36 Phases of Childhood 9 Topics in Mathematics Eleventh Grade 40 Physics for Waldorf Middle Schools 39 Topics in Mathematics Tenth Grade 40 Physics is Fun 39 Topics in Mathematics Twelfth Grade 40 Place-Based Education 4 Towards Creative Teaching 4 Play with Us! 12 Toymaking with Children 32 Power of Grammar, The 18 Trailing Clouds of Glory 39 Power of Stories, The 18 Transparent Window Scenes 32 Practical Guide to Curative Education, A 9 Trust and Wonder 13 Professional Review and Evaluation in Waldorf Early Childhood Education 44 Projective Geometry 40 Puck the Gnome 24 U Pumpkin Soup and Cherry Bread 12 Understanding Waldorf Education 4 Upstart 13
R Rainbow Puppet Theater Book, The 36 V Recorder Ensemble 33 Verses and Poems and Stories to Tell 19 Recovery of Man in Childhood, The 4 Religious Education in SW Schools 26 Report Verses in Steiner’s Art of Education 44 W Roman Lives 26 Waldorf Alphabet Book 19 Rubicon 9 Waldorf Book of Animal Poetry, The 19 Rudolf Steiner and the Atom 40 Waldorf Book of Poetry, The 19 Rudolf Steiner’s Curriculum for SW Schools 4 Waldorf Education 4 Rudolf Steiner’s Observations on Adolescence 9 Waldorf Kindergartens Today 13
INDEX BY TITLE | 47 INDEX BY AUTHOR
A F L Adolphi, Sybille 31 Felce, Josie 19 Lagerlöf, Selma 22 Aeppli, Willi 8 Finser, Torin M. 44 Lang, Peter 13 Allen, Jon 40 Fischer, Luke 22 van Leeuwen, M. 32 Almon, Joan 31 Fischer, Ute 32 Lewis, Kimberley 12 Andersen, Hans Christian 23 Forrer, Elena 18 Lichthart, Attie 36 Anderson, Henning 38 Foster, Nancy 14–15, 44 Lieberherr, Ruth 15 Anschütz, Marieke 8 Francis, Keith 40 Lievegoed, Bernard C. J. 9 Archipova, Anastasiya 22–23 Frommherz, Andrea 32 Lissau, Magda 9 Artzybasheff, Boris 26 Livingston, Patricia 33 Atchison, Trice 13 G Loescher, Margaret Madeline 13 Auer, Arthur 33 Loewe, Hella 33 Auer, Elizabeth 9, 33, 36 Gelitz, Philipp 9 Lombardi, Elizabeth L. 15 Avison, Kevin 4 Gerwin, Douglas 39 Lombardi, Linda 39 Gill, Rea Taylor 44 Long-Breipohl, Renate 13 Glöckler, Michaela 9 B Lonsky, Karen 14 Gold, Monica 18 Lutters, Frans 4, 19 Baldwin, Sarah 44 Greer, Anne 18 Lyzet, Nana 10–12 Baluschek, Hans 24 Grieder, Deborah 13 Barnes, Diane Ingraham 33 Grimm, Jacob & Wilhelm 22 Bassewitz, Gerdt 24 Grohmann, Gerbert 39 M Berger, Petra 30–31 Grunditz, Anette 33 MacNeill, Alyson 24 Berger, Thomas 30–31 Guarducci, Iris 40 Mailer, Maggie 23 Bernstein, Steve 33 Guéret, Frédérique 31 Martin, Michael 15, 33 Biedermann, Edith 32 Masters, Brien 33 Blackwood, John 38 H McAlice, Jon 44 Blake, H. Emerson 4 McCrary, Keith 18 Blanning, Nancy 12 de Haan, Marja 31 Mellon, Nancy 15 Bloomquist, Stephen 19 de Haes, Daniel Udo 14–15 Meyer, Rudolf 19 Boogerd, Cornelis 12 Harrer, Dorothy 18–19, 25–26, 38 Mills, Samuel 25 Brown, Robyn 9 Harwood, A. C. 4 Mirocha, Paul 39 van der Brug, Jos 44 Heckmann, Helle 12 Mitchell, David 8–9, 33, 39, 44 Bruin, Dick 36 Heuninck, Ronald 22 Moeskops, J. 32 Bryer, Estelle 14, 36 Hörnecke, Alice 32 Moore, Richard 36 Buzzell, Keith A. 8 Howard, Michael 33 Müller, Brunhild 36 Howard, Susan 8–9, 12–13 Müller, Eric G. 23 Howell, Alice O. 22–23 C Müller, Heinz 44 Murphy, Sophia Christine 4 Carlgren, Frans 4 J Murphy-Lang, Cynthia 44 Childs, Gilbert J. 4 Murray-Lafrenz, Elsa 38 Chittenden, Meg 33 Jaffke, Freya 12–13, 15, 31–32 Clouder, Christopher 4, 9 Jones Schmidt, Vivian 36 Cohn, Diana 24, 39 Jordan, Janet 25 N Colum, Padraic 23, 26 Julius, Frits H. 40 Neumann, Robert 40 Compani, Marie-Luise 13 Neuschütz, Karin 8, 30, 32 Cordova, Amy 24 K Nilsson, Marcia A. 22 Karnow, Gerald 12 Nobel, Agnes 36 D Kemp, Gloria 38 Dahl, Erhard 19 Kennedy, David 19 O D’Aleo, Michael 39 Ker, Ruth 12–13 Oppenheimer, Sharifa 13 Dalton, Pamela 19 Kiel-Hinricksen, Monika 9 Kiersch, Johannes 18 Davidow, Shelley 24 P deForest, Louise 13, 15 Knijpenga, Siegwart 24 Dhom, Christel 30 Köhler, Henning 8–9 Palmer, Sue 13 König, Karl 8 Patzlaff, Rainer 12 Kornberger, Horst 18 Paulsen, Eldbjorg Gjessing 13 E Koteen-Soulé, Holly 44 Peacock, Ausa M. 24 Edelglass, Stephen 39 Kovacs, Charles 25–26, 39–40 Petrash, Carol 30 Edwards, Lawrence 40 Kraul, Walter 30, 39 Petrash, Jack 4 von Eiff, Tilde 26 Kronshage, Michaela 32 Pfister, Stefanie 28–30, 32 Eijgenraam, Lois 7, 9 von Kügelgen, Helmut 26 Pittis, Arthur M. 24, 36 Ellersiek, Wilma 14–15 Kurzyca, Krystyna 24 Pogany, Willy 23 Erixon, Ulf 33 Kutsch, Irmgard 30, 32 Poplawski, Thomas 8, 36 Kyber, Manfred 40 Preston, Michael 33
48 | STEINER-WALDORF EDUCATION 2017 R Sloan, David 40 W Smyth, Nell 36 Raichle, Bernadette 44 Wagner, Gerard 24 Sobel, David 2, 4 Rawson, Martyn 4 Walden, Brigitte 30, 32 Sonner, Robert 39 Reinhard, Rotraud 30–31 Weber, Susan 12 Spence, Roswitha 36 Renwick, Hugh 19 Weiskircher, Annette 36 Stebbing, Peter 24 Renwick Sheen, A. 38 Wildgruber, Thomas 36 Steegmans, Johanna 12 Ris, Margaret 13 Willwerth, Ilian 14 Stockmeyer, E. A. Karl 4 Roach Melia, Theresa 22 Winter, Dorit 18 Streit, Jakob 22–26 Rosengren, Rikke 10–12 Wolk-Gerche, Angelika 30, 32 Strehlow, Almuth 9 Ross, Rachel C. 8 Wyatt, Isabel 20–26 Ruef, Monica 9 Ruf, Bernd 8 T Y Russell, Leonore 40 Tapfer, Barbara 36 York, Jamie 37–38 Taylor, Michael 31 Young, Stephanie 22 S Thomas, Heather 18 Trevillion, John 36 Samson, Donald 25 Trostli, Roberto 39, 44 Z Sander, Victoria 14 Santer, Ivor 31 Zahlingen, Bronja 14 Sblendorio, Christopher 25 U Zonneveld, Famke 16–17, 19 Schaefer, Christopher 44 Ulke, Viola 31 Schmidt, Dagmar 31 Schmutz, Hans-Ulrich 40 Schoorel, Edmond 9 V Schuberth, Ernst 38 Veltman, Willem Frederik 25 Schwartz, Sylvia 32 Verheijen, Jan 23 Sehlin, Gunhild 23 Verschuren, Ineke 22
INDEX BY CLASS
Class 1 Namaste! (Cohn) 24 Class 4 Numerica (Kemp) 38 Active Arithmetic! (Anderson) 38 Active Arithmetic! (Anderson) 38 Puck the Gnome (Streit) 24 Adventures of Scoochie Mouse Bee Book, The (Streit) 22 Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book (Wyatt) 24 (Roach Melia) 22 Eight-Year-Old Legend Book (Wyatt) 22 Verses & Poems & Stories to Tell (Harrer) 19 Basic Sculptural Modeling (Loewe) 33 Geometry Lessons in the Waldorf Waldorf Alphabet Book (Zonneveld) 19 Blue Forest, The (Fischer) 22 School (Schuberth) 38 Word Mastery Primer (Renwick) 19 Hay for My Ox & Other Stories (Wyatt) 23 Human Being and the Animal World You’re Not The Boss of Me! (Ker) 13 Liputto (Streit) 23 (Kovacs) 39 Mr Goethe’s Garden (Cohn) 39 Kingdom of Beautiful Colours (Wyatt) 23 Namaste! (Cohn) 24 Magical Wonder Tales (Wyatt) 23 Numerica (Kemp) 38 Class 3 Norse Hero Tales (Wyatt) 26 Puck the Gnome (Streit) 24 Active Arithmetic! (Anderson) 38 Norse Mythology (Kovacs) 26 Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book (Wyatt) 24 Adventures of Scoochie Mouse Peter and Anneli’s Journey to Sun with Loving Light, The (Bloomquist) 19 (Roach Melia) 22 the Moon (Bassewitz) 24 Waldorf Alphabet Book (Zonneveld) 19 And There Was Light (Streit) 22 Verses & Poems & Stories to Tell (Harrer) 19 Word Mastery Primer (Renwick) 19 Basic Sculptural Modeling (Loewe) 33 Wise Enchanter, The (Davidow) 24 Verses & Poems & Stories to Tell (Harrer) 19 Blue Forest, The (Fischer) 22 You’re Not The Boss of Me! (Ker) 13 Eight-Year-Old Legend Book (Wyatt) 22 Class 5 Journey to the Promised Land (Streit) 23 Alpha Beta Book, The (McCrary) 18 Kingdom of Beautiful Colours (Wyatt) 23 Ancient Greece (Kovacs) 25 Magical Wonder Tales (Wyatt) 23 Class 2 At the Hot Gates (Samson) 25 Mr Goethe’s Garden (Cohn) 39 Active Arithmetic! (Anderson) 38 Bee Book, The (Streit) 22 Namaste! (Cohn) 24 Adventures of Scoochie Mouse Botany (Kovacs) 39 Peter and Anneli’s Journey to (Roach Melia) 22 Geometry Lessons in the Waldorf the Moon (Bassewitz) 24 Basic Sculptural Modeling (Loewe) 33 School (Schuberth) 38 Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book (Wyatt) 24 Blue Forest (Fischer) 22 Hellas (Veltman) 25 Snip Snap Snout! (Pittis) 24 Eight-Year-Old Legend Book (Wyatt) 22 Homer’s Odyssey (Wyatt) 25 Verses & Poems & Stories to Tell (Harrer) 19 Hay for My Ox and Other Stories (Wyatt) 23 Human Being and the Animal World We Will Build a Temple (Streit) 24 King of Ireland’s Son, The (Colum) 23 (Kovacs) 39 Wise Enchanter, The (Davidow) 24 Kingdom of Beautiful Colours (Wyatt) 23 Peter and Anneli’s Journey to Magical Wonder Tales (Wyatt) 23 the Moon (Bassewitz) 24 Mr Goethe’s Garden (Cohn) 39 Wise Enchanter, The (Davidow) 24
INDEX BY AUTHOR / INDEX BY CLASS | 49 Class 6 Class 8 Class 10 Alpha Beta Book, The (McCrary) 18 Age of Revolution (Kovacs) 25 Topics in Maths Tenth Grade (Neumann) 40 Ancient Greece (Kovacs) 25 Chemistry in Waldorf Middle Ancient Rome (Kovacs) 25 Schools (Sonner) 39 Class 11 At the Hot Gates (Samson) 25 Demon Slayer, The (Mills) 25 Botany (Kovacs) 39 Fire Bringer, The (Mills) 25 Parsifal (Kovacs) 40 Chemistry in Waldorf Middle Fire the Imagination - Write On! (Winter) 18 Topics in Maths Eleventh Grade (Neumann) 40 Schools (Sonner) 39 Geology and Astronomy (Kovacs) 39 Demon Slayer, The (Mills) 25 Geron and Virtus (Streit) 22 Class 12 Recorder Ensemble (Bernstein) 33 Invisible Guardians (Streit) 23 Topics in Maths Twelfth Grade (Neumann) 40 Fire Bringer, The (Mills) 25 Mathematics in Classes 6 to 8 (York) 38 Fire the Imagination (Winter) 18 Mathematics in Nature, Space First Steps in Proven Geometry for the & Time (Blackwood) 38 Upper Elemetary Grades (Schuberth) 38 Muscles and Bones (Kovacs) 39 Geology and Astronomy (Kovacs) 39 Physics is Fun (Trostli) 39 Geron and Virtus (Streit) 22 Physics Waldorf Middle Schools (Sonner) 39 Hellas (Veltman) 25 Sensible Physics Teaching (D’Aleo) 39 Homer’s Odyssey (Wyatt) 25 Spirit of the Mountain (Davidow) 24 Invisible Guardians (Streit) 23 Student’s Workbook Maths Class 8 (York) 38 Mathematics Lessons for the Teacher’s Source Book for Sixth Grade (Schuberth) 38 Three Knight Tales (Streit) 26 Milon and the Lion (Streit) 25 Trailing Clouds of Glory (Gerwin) 39 Physics is Fun (Trostli) 39 Recorder Ensemble (Bernstein) 33 Physics Waldorf Middle Schools (Sonner) 39 Who Is Harry Potter? (Lutters) 19 Roman Lives (Harrer) 26 Wonders of Waldorf Chemistry (Mitchell) 39 Sensible Physics Teaching (D’Aleo) 39 Spirit of the Mountain (Davidow) 24 Student’s Workbook Maths Class 6 (York) 38 Teacher’s Source Book for Class 9-12 Mathematics in Classes 6 to 8 (York) 38 Three Knight Tales (Streit) 26 Drawing Geometry (Allen) 40 Who Is Harry Potter? (Lutters) 19 Earth Science Waldorf Schools (Schmutz) 40 Fundamentals for a Phenomenological Study of Chemistry (Julius) 40 Class 7 Kinesthetic Learning Adolescents (Russell) 40 Age of Discovery, The (Kovacs) 25 Life Lessons (Sloan) 40 Geology and Astronomy (Kovacs) 39 Projective Geometry (Edwards) 40 Geron and Virtus (Streit) 22 Rudolf Steiner and the Atom (Francis) 40 Mathematics in Nature, Space Three Candles of Little Veronica (Kyber) 40 & Time (Blackwood) 38 Muscles and Bones (Kovacs) 39 Recorder Ensemble (Bernstein) 33 Class 9 Student’s Workbook for Maths in Class 7 (York) 38 Mathematics in Nature, Space Three Knight Tales (Streit) 26 & Time (Blackwood) 38 Trailing Clouds of Glory (Gerwin) 39 Muscles and Bones (Kovacs) 39 Wonders of Waldorf Chemistry (Mitchell) 39 Trailing Clouds of Glory (Gerwin) 39 Wonders of Waldorf Chemistry (Mitchell) 39 #
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