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Art of Teaching Waldorf Grade 4

Additional Resources

Curriculum Review // Oak Meadow // 4th Grade // resources
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A Peek into the Classroom
Morning Verse for Lower Grades
Waldorf Today Gallery of Main Lesson Book Pages - Elementary School
Beautiful and inspiring
Gallery of Chalkboard Drawings in the Waldorf Classroom grades 1 - 8
Waldorf/Steiner Main Lessons and Main Lesson Blocks VERY helpful article

samples from the Fourth Grade Curriculum by Live Education!

• The Block Calendar Rotation
  from Introduction to the Fourth YearA Painting Activity
  from Beowulf
  The Kalevala: The Finnish National Epic
  from The Kalevala
  The Land of Wylynn
  from Imaginative Math and Fractions
  Octopus
  from The World of Animals
  The World Tree
  from The Norse Myths
  Animals Among the Elements
  from Human and Animal
  Local Industry
  from Local Geography, History, and Industry
  An Exercise with Adjectives
  from Teaching Grammar with Imagination
  Three Archetypal Forms
  from Drawing Simple Animal Forms

General Waldorf Resources
The Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy
article by Rudolf Steiner
How To Create, Tell, and Recall a Story
Four Ways to Connect with Storytelling
blog post - Simplicity Parenting
Overview of Childhood Characteristics - includes the four temperaments
article by David Mitchell
Blackboard Sketching book by Frederick Whitney (1908)
available online for free - with step by step directions and illustrations
How to Bind a Main Lesson Book
Main Lesson Book pages shared by Christopherus Homeschool Resources
browse through my collection of Pinterest Boards
with chalkboard drawings and main lesson book pages for many main lesson blocks
Movement for Childhood - wonderful site!
Waldorf Today Newsletter
very interesting & free weekly newsletter sent via email each Monday
Block Rotations Grades 1 - 8 (PDF)
by Jamie York
Summary of Math Skills for Grades 1 through 8 (PDF)
by Jamie York
A Grades 1 through 8 Math Curriculum Overview (PDF)
by Jamie York
Word Problems in Grades 1 through 8 (PDF)
by Jamie York
Waldorf Science Newsletter - issues available in PDF format
page 13 of Vol.1 has a Science Curriculum in the Waldorf School Grades 1-8 overview / one page handout, and page 14 has the same for the Waldorf High School Grades 9-12
When Should My Child Begin Music Lessons?
article by Sarah Baldwin
The Spiritual Gifts of Handwork
blog post - Knitting with Children
"Foundations of Waldorf Education" Series Notes
FREE links to all 25 volumes in this series of educational writings by Rudolf Steiner
DO NOT MISS The Online Waldorf Library's tremendous selection of Waldorf education books converted into PDFs and available for FREE download! You can literally save $1000's of dollars!

Curriculum Planning

• Grade 4 Content from Waldorf Teacher Resources
  An unbelievable resource with FREE main lesson pages and lesson plans (called "gems")
  
  
  • Form Drawing
    Music
    Movement
    Circle
    Math
    Language
    Stories
    Verses
    Norse Myths
    Painting
    Class Play
    Blackboard Drawings
    Zoology (Man and Animal)
    Geography & History
    Main Lesson Pages
    Remedial
    Curriculum Overview
    Foreign Language
• The AWSNA Curriculum Chart is an INVALUABLE resource
  Highly recommended, inexpensive, concise format, yet detailed and thorough -- and it's only $8.00! If you plan on homeschooling with Waldorf, you need to get this.
  
  
• Read My Blog - to follow our homeschool journey day by day...
  
  
  • Color Coding - how we organize our daily record keeping / plan books
  • Hands, Heart, Head - how we organize our daily school schedule
    
    
  • Plan Book Pictures - pictures of my planner and my daughters' plan book pages
    A picture is worth a thousand words!
  • Resources & Recommendations Specific to Fourth Grade
    
  • Summer Reading Lists
    from the San Francisco Waldorf School
  • Early Humans - Montessori Third Great Lesson
    
  • Early Human Skull Shapes & Capacity
  • Misc. Additional Resources
  • Discover Waldorf Education: The Cry for Myth by Eugene Schwartz
  • Books for Fourth Grade from the Baldwin Project
  • Teaching English
    by Roy Wilkinson (grades 1-8)
  • Poems and Speech Exercises for Grades III and IV
    by Promethean Press
  • English Workbook for Fourth Grade and
    The Teacher's Manual for English Workbook for Fourth Grade
    by Ted Warren, available from Waldorf Books
  • "Paul Bunyan" poem (p.124) from Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein
  • Breaking Down the Skills Needed to Write a Research Paper
  • Simple Editing and Penmanship
  • Lesson Planning - Language Block
  • Tall Tales Collection
  • Writing Personal Narratives
  • Grammar & Composition: Tall Tales PDF
  • Introduction to Composition - Personal Narrative - Visual Journaling
    
    The Journal Junkies Workshop: Visual Ammunition for the Art Addict
    Journal Fodder 365: Daily Doses of Inspiration for the Art Addict
    
    
  • How Montessori Teaches Grammar
  • Making a New Sentence Analysis Material: Why
  • Making a New Sentence Analysis Material: How
  • Lessons in Sentence Analysis
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    Mathematics
    
  • Geometry Lessons in the Waldorf School: Volume 2: Freehand Form Drawing and Basic Geometric Construction in Grades 4 and 5 by Ernst Schuberth
    available as a FREE download from the Online Waldorf Library
  • Making Math Meaningful: A Source Book for Teaching Math in Grades One Through Five
    by Jamie York (grades 1-5)
  • Making Math Meaningful: Fun with Puzzles, Games, and More!
    by Jamie York (grades 4-12)
  • Hands-On Math!: Ready-To-Use Games & Activities for Grades 4-8
    by Frances Thompson
  • graph paper (PDF)
    
    
  • Farming & Gardening / Introduction to Fractions
    a bridge between Grade 3 and Grade 4
  • my older Introduction to Fractions (pdf)
  • Teaching about Money
    blog post - Switzerite
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    Form Drawing
  • It's expensive, but I think the absolute best form drawing book for Celtic knots and braided forms is Creative Form Drawing: Workbook 1
    
      
    This series is also wonderful for the adult for inner work!
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    Norse Mythology
  • See my NEW Norse Mythology page
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    Local History & Geography
    
    
  • Looking Down
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    Man and Animal
    
    
  • recent blog posts:
  • Man and Animal Resources
  • List of Resources for the Animals
  • I Am a Baby Porcupette
  • I highly recommend reading Wilfrid Swancourt Bronson's work as an accompaniment to the second Zoology block: rodents, carnivores, and ruminants / ungulates.
    
    
  • I also recommend Holling Clancy Holling's work as an accompaniment for the first Zoology block (underwater life including invertebrates, fish, turtle).Octopus is in the final chapter of Pagoo; you could also use this sample Live Ed! lesson.
    Minn also works as Local Geography for those along the Mississippi River.
    
    
  • Lastly, Thornton W. Burgess was the source of most of our stories for the second Zoology block (birds and mammals). The chapters are just the right length.
    The Burgess Bird Book for Children
    The Burgess Animal Book for Children
  • And I took the time to put together a huge list of animal poetry on my blog... enjoy!
    David Attenborough and Animal Poetry
  • A phenomenal free resource is Human and Animal Study: Grades 4-6 (PDF) - complete lesson plans for this main lesson block WRITTEN FOR THE EAST AFRICAN WALDORF TEACHER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM BY CATHERINE VAN ALPHEN
  • drawing lessons from Live Ed that are super helpful for Man & Animal: three archetypal forms, drawing rabbits and birds, and the colorful owl and moon
  • One final resource -- and it's a GREAT one -- is The Princeton Encyclopedia of Mammals
  • my older Zoology I PDF
  • my older Zoology II PDF
  • Animal Architects
    a variation on the "Man and Animal" block with a Physics twist
  
  
  • General Resouces
    Drawing, Painting, Modeling
    
  • Painting and Drawing in Waldorf Schools: Classes 1-8
    by Thomas Wildgruber
  • Learning About the World Through Modeling: Sculptural Ideas for School and Home
    by Arthur Auer (grades 1-8)
  • Creative Pathways: Activities that Strengthen the Child's Cognitive Forces
    by Elizabeth Auer (grades 1-8)AVAILABLE FREE as a download from the Online Waldorf Library
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    Class Plays
  • List of Pedagogical Plays by Arthus M. Pittis
    useful for homeschool groups or Waldorf schools - contact him to purchase scripts
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    Handwork: Embroidery & Cross-Stitch
    These were the books Natalie used:
    
  • See and Sew: A Sewing Book for Children
    by Tina Davis
  • Feltcraft: Making Dolls, Gifts, and Toys
    by Petra Berger
  • The Family Creative Workshop: Volume 6 - Embroidery to Gingerbread
  • Mother Goose Remembers (Book & CD)
    by Clare Beaton
  • Let's Quilt Our Ohio Town and Stuff It Topographically!
    by Carole Marsh
    I always loved this idea for Local Geography!!