A Catalogue for Educators from Floris Books 2017
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Steiner-WaldorfSteiner-Waldorf EducationEducation A catalogue for educators from Floris Books 2017 Mythology & History Religion & Festivals Creative Arts How to order books For all regular orders, you can order books Buying for a school fayre? Prices direct through our distributor BookSource, To order books for a special event such Prices in this catalogue are valid in the UK either using the Order Form (p.51), by as a school fayre, please contact us on only and take effect from 1 April 2017. email at [email protected] or by 0131 337 2372 or [email protected]. They are subject to change without notice. calling 0131 337 2372. We’re happy to advise you on which books to order and discuss special offers. Delivery All school orders are delivered free of For tips on how to make the most of book charge. Personal orders incur a small sales opportunities at your school fayre, postage and packing charge. read our feature article on p.41. You can also buy a selection of Steiner-Waldorf education books from these local bookshops. AL FINE THE MULBERRY BUSH AN SIOPA BEAG (SHOP & MAIL-ORDER) 26 Hartfield Rd 77 Morningside Rd Main Street, Killaloe Forest Row RH18 5DY Edinburgh EH10 4AY Co. Clare, Ireland Tel & Fax: 01342-824422 Tel: 0131-447 5145 Tel & Fax: +353-61-375 770 Email: [email protected] CAMPHILL BOOKSHOP MYRIAD NATURAL TOYS (MAIL-ORDER) www.ansiopabeag.com 199 North Deeside Rd The Old Stables, Nine Yews Bieldside, Aberdeen AB15 9EN nr Cranborne, Dorset, BH21 5PW RUDOLF STEINER BOOKSHOP Tel: 01224-867611 Tel: 01725-517085 35 Park Rd www.myriadonline.co.uk London NW1 6XT ELMFIELD BOOKSHOP Tel & Fax: 020-7724-7699 Love Lane, Stourbridge SALAGO Email: [email protected] West Midlands DY8 2EA 51 The Old Butterwalk Tel: 01384-394633 Totnes, Devon TQ9 5NP AN TEARMANN Tel: 01803-865721 Main St, Kilcullen GLENCRAIG BOOKSHOP Email: [email protected] Co Kildare, Ireland Camphill Community Glencraig www.salago.co.uk Tel: +353-45-481597 Craigavad, Holywood BT18 0DB Tel: 028-9042-3396/5170 SALAMANDER THE WELLSPRING BOOKSHOP York Steiner School, Danesmead 5 New Oxford St THE LANTERN BOOKSHOP Fulford, York YO10 4PB London WC1A 1BA Community Centre, Folly Farm Lane Tel: 01904-654983 Tel: 020-7405 6101 Ashly, Ringwood BH24 2NN [email protected] Email: [email protected] Tel: 01425-473159 www.wellspringbookshop.co.uk Alongside our own books we distribute books from Waldorf Publications, Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America (WECAN), Living Arts Books, Orion, Steiner and Lindisfarne Books from the USA as well as from the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship (SWSF) in the UK. Floris Books 2a Robertson Avenue, Edinburgh EH11 1PZ Tel: 0131-337 2372 Email: [email protected] Web: www.florisbooks.co.uk Floris Books Trust Ltd Registered address: 22 Baylie Street, Stourbridge DY8 1AZ Registered No. 2398655. Company Limited by Guarantee Registered Charity No. 801790 and SC041837 (Scotland) Printed in Great Britain Cover image taken from Spring and Summer Activities Come Rain or Shine (p.32). Contents 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, Floris Books Floris Books unless otherwise indicated. 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.