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Texture Unit Overview
The Waldorf method emphasizes imaginative play, art and creative activities, music, storytelling, authentic handwork, and honoring the rhythms of the seasons and of life. The preschool years are recognized to be a special time in the development of the child.
The lesson plan pages are set up with the following eight subjects:
Music & Movement,
Art,
Nature,
Cooking,
Play,
Handwork,
Helping, and
Stories.
This six-week unit includes 15 essential stories in keeping with the theme, specific Art, Nature, and Handwork activies for each week, and additional suggestions for Music & Movement and Play materials.
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Newsletter Topics:
In addition to writing the main unit plan, I wrote a series of six newsletter topics. They show how the original ideas in the unit
were actually implemented -- some were used, some were taken out, some new ideas were added in. I hope they show
how flexible the curriculum is intended to be and that you find the additional suggestions helpful.
This unit is designed to be taught during the Spring.
Art: The art focus for this unit is an exploration of painting styles.
Children and Painting
by Cathy Weisman Topal.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
edited by Cooper Edens
Handwork:The handwork focus is making toys for indoor and outdoor play.
The Children's Year: Crafts and clothes for children and parents to make
by Stephanie Cooper, et al.
Nature: The nature focus is the textures of the outside world.
Hearthsong's Young Naturalist's Notebook
My background:
I was trained in Reggio Emilia at Smith College where I got my BA, went on to work as a preschool teacher and co-director of a Montessori school -- then fell in love with the Waldorf method while I was researching preschools for my daughter and now happily homeschool my own children.
waldorf_curric@yahoo.com
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