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Sun, Moon & Shadow
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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This unit is designed to be taught during the Autumn.
Art: The art focus for this unit is fabric artistry.
Exploring Textile Arts: the ultimate guide to manipulating, coloring, and embellishing fabrics
Nature: The nature focus is camping with your child.
The Storyteller's Start-up Book: Finding, Learning, Performing, and Using Folktales
Margaret Read MacDonald
Seeing Stars
Charles Hobson
The Little Book of Hand Shadows
Phila H. Webb - Jane Corby
Handwork:The handwork focus is working with magic wool.
More Magic Wool: Creating Figures and Pictures with Dyed Wool
Angelika Wolk-Gerche
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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