Fairy Tales and Folk Stories
Ages
Ages 6-8 meet on Tuesday, and Thursday at 2:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern Standard time. Through fairy and folk tales, saint stories, and inspiring stories of notable people, students will explore letters and sounds, develop their understanding of numbers, and see how math connects us to the world around us. Students will sing, move, draw, write, and play games as they enter into the world of online learning.
Integrating first and second grade learning
the benefits of Waldorf education
Why It Works
Even online, the heart of Waldorf remains intact: strong rhythm, meaningful relationships, hands-on artistry, and developmental attunement. With live, real-time guidance and thoughtfully paced lessons, your child will be seen, heard, and deeply engaged. Classes include weekly painting sessions that explore color, emotion, and technique, along with hands-on weaving projects, opportunities to craft beeswax sculptures, and engaging puppet-making activities culminating in puppet plays, fostering creativity and expression in young learners. If studetns are absent a video will be made available for make ups.
first and second grade learning
🌞 Welcome & Warm-Up
We begin with a morning verse, seasonal songs, movement, simple dances, recorder playing, and spoken poetry. This grounding rhythm connects children to the day, the group, and themselves.
✂️ Review Through Free Rendering
Children retell or reflect on the previous lesson by creating images with construction paper—a playful and expressive method I call Free Rendering. It allows ideas to be revisited through form and color.
🌱 Presentation of the New Concept
I introduce a new story, skill, or idea, often through rich images, storytelling, or demonstration.
🧠 Practice
We explore the new material through guided exercises, oral work, movement, or artistic expression.
🔁 Skill Refinement
Children revisit and strengthen a previously learned skill to deepen retention and confidence.
📖 Main Lesson Book Creation
We end the core portion of our lesson by crafting a beautiful main lesson book page—a personal record of what has been learned, written and illustrated by the child.
📚 Story Time
A closing story nourishes the imagination and ties the lesson into a meaningful narrative.
🎵 Closing Verse or Song
We say farewell with a verse or song, leaving your child with a feeling of completion and warmth.
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