"Math Lessons for Elementary Grades" is, as its name indicates, a manual for teaching mathematics in the elementary grades. If you master all the math in this book, you have all the math you need for practical purposes, for life! Dorothy Harrar taught in the first Waldorf school in North America for many years and had a genius for bringing to life and to the experience of children, math concepts both simple and complex. Number patterns, the qualities of numbers, the geometry of multiplication tables, business math skills, are all woven together to build experiential math ideas in a visible and practical way. Imaginative stories, clear pictures, practices in movement to illuminate the truth about numbers are all part of this ingenious little book! A good teacher would never lead a child to abstractions before allowing the child to experience the facts behind the abstractions first. This book helps bring those experiences alive in active arithmetic.

Math Lessons for Elementary Grades

Education & Teaching

Harrar, Dorothy

Schools & Teaching

The Association of Waldorf Schools of North America

Inspiration, rationale, and detailed instructions on technique in water color painting are the gifts of this unique book. Written by two experienced Waldorf teachers the text gives careful explanation as to why painting in elementary grades is so formative and important for a child's development and for the development of the teacher as well. You will be empowered to take on painting in ways you never imagined! You will find the steps towards experiencing color so that you, too, can paint effectively with children of elementary and middle school age. Creativity, technique, and accomplishment are the inevitable results of this important book's mission. The warmth, enthusiasm and expertise of the authors is apparent in every page. Start now with this good book on your own painting journey!

Painting in Waldorf Education

Bruin, Dick

Lichthart, Attie

Stories from Genesis in the Old Testament light up for children (of all ages) the beginning of the world and the development of the human race. Rich language and deep insight into the nature of being human are the best of this book. Beautiful, delicate illustrations tickle the imagination with quiet, reverent images of the complexity and glory of life's beginning.As a bedtime story reader, a reader for a whole class, or a read-on-your-own, this is a gem!These tales travel off the beaten path of the actual Bible stories and illuminate the way of life before and following "the Fall." For children ages 9 to 12, these stories explain much about human nature, love, anger, aspirations, envy, ambition, hope, greed, spirituality in every soul, and the early ways of agriculture, housebuilding. and blacksmithing. With strong images and delicate imagination, the stories call to a moral development in the young (and in the old!) from these archetypes of familiar Bible stories. "The back story" in all cases fills the picture for children of why we are basically good and sometimes not so very good. For the nine to ten year old in particular this book will do a world of good for the child in describing the rising consciousness in his and her own self.

And There Was Light

Children's Books

Streit, Jacob

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Right out of Waldorf educational practice and supported by recent brain research comes a book with specific activities designed to build the brain to its maximum capacity for learning for life! Parents and teachers can find ideas here for helping children of all sorts to engage in the world actively while enhancing brain development. Based on the Waldorf school plan, so arts are in the essence of the ideas. Brain research shows that only the art light up the whole brain in a child for maximum neuron development, maximum mylination of these neurons. The book goes age-by-age and grade-by-grade with clear pictures of what to do and why to do them at what point in a child's development and budding capacities. Music, painting, drawing, playacting, dance, imaginative free play have been proven to enhance memory, intelligence, fluidity and flexibility of thinking, and engagement in learning.

Creative Pathways: Activities that Strengthen the Child's Cognitive Forces

Auer M.Ed., Elizabeth

La sociedad exige demasiado de nuestros maestros hoy. Se espera que las escuelas lidien con una serie de necesidades sociales, frecuentemente con fondos y apoyo inadecuados. Muchos politicos piensan que la solucion es élevar y un mayor escrutinio del desempeño de los maestros. Las presiones externas sobre maestros cuales son sus mecesidades. Muchos estudios han mostrado que el factor de Mayor inmportancia en la educacion es el maestro. En las escuelas Waldorf, los maestros son alentados a crecer profesionalmente a través delcultivos de recursos personales internos. Este pequeño libro tiene la intencion de alentar a los maestros a cuidar de si mismos, meditar y convertirse en fuente de inspiracion para nuestros estudiantes para que juntos podamos attender las necesidades urgentes de nuestros tiempos.

Encontrarte a Ti Mismo: Apoyando la Vida Interior del Maestro (Spanish Edition)

Finser, Torin