Steiner-Waldorf Education, 2018
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Steiner-Waldorf Education 2018 A catalogue for educators from Floris Books Mythology & History Religion & Festivals Creative Arts Storytelling Adventures Author Geoff Mead on storytelling and child development Birthday Traditions Lou Harvey-Zahra and Sara Parrilli discuss the Waldorf birthday story Easy Wood Carving Simple whittling projects for use in the classroom Education Catalogue Cover.indd 2 06/04/2018 10:12:39 How to order books You can order books direct through our Special Events Prices distributor BookSource, either using To order books for a special event such Prices in this catalogue are valid in the UK the Order Form (p.50), by email to as a school fayre, please contact us on only and take effect from 1 April 2018. [email protected] or by calling 0131 337 2372 or [email protected]. They are subject to change without notice. 0845 370 0067. We’re happy to advise you on which books Delivery to order and discuss special offers. You All school orders are delivered free of can also take a look at our school fayre charge. Personal orders incur a small bestsellers on p.52. postage and packing charge. 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. 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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.36). Education Catalogue Cover.indd 3 06/04/2018 10:12:45 Welcome Welcome to our Spring 2018 issue Child Development 4 t Floris Books, we pride ourselves on offering a wide range of useful, General & Curriculum 10 informative and stimulating books for Steiner-Waldorf teachers and Early Years 14 pupils. We’ve had lots of great feedback on the first issue of our new-look Education Catalogue last year, and we hope you enjoy this Music & Movement 18 secondA edition just as much. Festivals, Language 19 We’ve packed this issue with lots of helpful resources for you, including inspiring features on the role of movement in child development (p.2) and the history of Lower School 22 geometry (p.28) plus author and parenting coach Lou Harvey-Zahra’s thoughts on the Waldorf birthday story (p.16). We’ve even included some creative whittling Stories & Class Readers 22 projects (p.32) for you to try with your class. Language & Literature 25 We hope this catalogue will be a useful resource for every Steiner-Waldorf educator. Mythology & History 26 100th Anniversary of the Waldorf Movement Maths 30 2019 marks one hundred years of Steiner-Waldorf education, and we’re excited to hear about the projects, initiatives and events that are happening around the world. Science 31 Do get in touch to let us know what you’re planning, and if you’re not yet involved, see p.46 for information on how you can participate. Creative Arts 34 If you have any questions about our books, email [email protected] or call Crafts & Activities 34 0131 337 2372. You can place an order using the included order form (p.50), or you can visit our website www.florisbooks.co.uk or order through your local bookshop. Handwork 37 Best wishes, Painting & Drawing 40 Music 40 Drama 41 Katy Lockwood-Holmes, Christian Maclean & the Floris Team Upper School 44 School Organisation 47 Get in touch with Floris Index by class 48 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 via our social media channels: Key All books in this catalogue are paperback, unless otherwise indicated. You can also read our blog on the Floris Books website, where we share Books also available as eBooks articles, interviews and extracts from our Steiner-Waldorf books. are marked with this symbol. www.florisbooks.co.uk/blog Look out for our new and featured books Placeholder text WELCOME | 1 Education Catalogue v1.indd 1 06/04/2018 09:51:48 Learning through living Experienced children’s physiotherapist Evelien van Dort explores the role of movement in learning in this extract from her new book for parents Why Don’t Children Sit Still? n traditional schools, children Learning to ‘grasp’ abstract numbers There are lots of ways to encourage spend most of the day sitting and quantities with our fingers in this connection, for example activities down at a desk. Their movement is this way causes a neural connection, such as circle games allow children to restricted, and as a consequence, so and research has shown that young establish and practise this neural link, Iis their ability to experience. Abstract children with nimble fingers are able to especially if they are accompanied by concepts are much easier for children to learn arithmetic skills more easily later counting exercises. understand if they are accompanied by on. Finger games are important for movement, or doing. developing this ability, while playing “Our memory functions For example, for a child to a musical instrument can also be a at its best when we move understand that five apples are greater wonderful stimulus for hand dexterity. than two, they must first learn to count Using repetitive movements such as and speak out loud.” using their fingers, beginning with one walking and counting sounds simple, hand and then progressing to both. yet in my experience I have come Learning has become an abstract across many children who have great process at most schools. Children “In traditional schools, trouble in stepping or jumping while sit and work, and are not given the children’s movement counting at the same time. Walking and opportunity to develop these key counting backwards simultaneously is sensory motor skills. is restricted, and as a even more difficult. This gap in ability Even in Ancient Greece, sensory consequence, so is their demonstrates that the child has not motor learning was applied by ability to experience.” yet achieved freedom of movement rhythmically walking while learning (insufficient motor maturation), and a poem by heart, and today, research This is the basic foundation for that this particular skill needs more proves that our memory functions at its learning the essentials of arithmetic. attention. best when we move and speak out loud, 2 | STEINER-WALDORF EDUCATION 2018 Education Catalogue v1.indd 2 06/04/2018 09:52:06 enabling us to create the all-important and learning’, can be seen in a number Why not try: Our society is focused neural pathways needed for learning of schooling systems around the world, on looking, but what is it like to stand and development. but Waldorf schools in particular pay or walk with your eyes closed? Ask As Bothmer Gymnastics highlights, special attention to learning through your students to do just that. Can they sensory motor movement is more than movement. name and experience what surrounds just the mechanics of bones and muscles them without seeing it? There are lots – it involves the body’s inner processes “Walking and jumping of fun circle, singing and movement just as much as its outer actions. caused the children’s games that can strengthen this deeper Imagine it this way: a child wants capacity for experiencing the world to pick an apple from a tree. The apple brains to release around us. is the reason why the child stretches adrenaline, enabling out their arm, stands on their tiptoes or information to be climbs up a ladder. The apple becomes caused the children’s brains to release the child’s incentive to move, unlocking absorbed more effectively” adrenaline, enabling information to be the will and translating their impulse absorbed more effectively – illustrating into the movement of picking. For example, in cooking lessons this undeniable link between movement children learn about abstract concepts and experience.