Fourth Grade
updated October 8, 2017

Morning Verse for Lower Grades
by Rudolf Steiner

FREE Examples of Chalkboard Drawings and Main Lesson Book Pages
Beautiful and inspiring

How to Bind a Main Lesson Book

Movement for Childhood - WONDERFUL site!

Waldorf Today Gallery of Main Lesson Book Pages - Elementary School

Gallery of Chalkboard Drawings in the Waldorf Classroom

Main Lesson Book pages shared by Christopherus Homeschool Resources

Waldorf Inspirations Gallery

browse through my collection of Pinterest Boards with samples of chalkboard drawings and main lesson book pages for many blocks

*NEW* Waldorf Science Newsletter - issues available in PDF format for FREE

page 13 of Vol.1 has a Science Curriculum in the Waldorf School Grades 1-8 overview / one page handout, page 14 has the same for High School Grades 9-12

Summary of Math Skills for Grades 1 through 8 (PDF)
A Grades 1 through 8 Math Curriculum Overview (PDF)
Word Problems in Grades 1 through 8 (PDF)
written by Jamie York

What's Taught?
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.

The Waldorf School Curriculum - Grade 4
Block Rotations and Course Descriptions by Eugene Schwartz

Block Rotations Grades 1 - 8 (PDF)
written by Jamie York

Samples from the Fourth Grade Curriculum by Live Education!

The Block Calendar Rotation from Introduction to the Fourth Year

The World Tree from The Norse Myths

A Painting Activity from Beowulf

The Finnish National Epic from The Kalevala

Local Industry from Local Geography History and Industry

The Land of Wylynn from Imaginative Math and Fractions

An Exercise with Adjectives from Teaching Grammar with Imagination

Three Archetypal Forms from Drawing Simple Animal Forms

Animals Among the Elements from Human and Animal

Octopus from The World of Animals

Read My Blog - to follow our homeschool journey day by day...

Visit the Links to the Left - to download my compiled printer-friendly notes about each block...

Check out Additional Lesson Planning Notes below:

• 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!

  

• Misc. Additional Resources
• Summer Reading Lists
  from the San Francisco Waldorf School
• BLACKBOARD SKETCHING book By FREDERICK WHITNEY (1908)
  available online for free - with step by step directions and illustrations
• Early Humans - Montessori Third Great Lesson

  

• Early Human Skull Shapes & Capacity
• Discover Waldorf Education: The Cry for Myth by Eugene Schwartz
• Books for Fourth Grade from the Baldwin Project

Main Lesson Blocks - Specific Resources

Literature & Composition

• 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
  


posts from my blog:

• 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

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)

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!

Norse Mythology

See my NEW Norse Mythology page

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


This truly is a book every homeschool family should own!

• 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

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!!

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