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Home / Learning More / Articles on Aspects of Waldorf Education / Donna Simmons Archive
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An Introduction to Waldorf Homeschooling
The Waldorf Approach to Science
First Grade Readiness

Much more from Donna on the Homeschool Journey blog.

We've also put together a complete list of blog articles by category:

 

 

Index of Homeschool Journey Blog Articles

All articles on the blog are categorized, sometimes in several different categories. The following list (up to date as of 3/16/10) only lists articles once - under their main category. Newest entries are first.

Homeschool Journey Blog Search:

General Homeschooling

Can Anyone Help?
Good Test, Bad Test
Serious Threat to Homeschooling in California
The "S" Question (Socialization)
Mood and Main Lesson Material
Educating for Excellence
Hiring a Waldorf Teacher
Team Sports - What Age?
Planning for Next Year
Report from Informed Family Life Conference
Defending Oak Meadow
The Well Trained Mind and Waldorf

End of Year Wrap Up
Not School at Home

Working Together
Spelling and Composition
Homeschool Writing Group
Six Week Report
But Is It Waldorf?
To School and Back Home Again
How to Do It!
Summer Learning
The Joy of Learning
The Value of Silence
Cultivating Perseverance
Schedules

Waldorf Curriculum

Old Testament Stories Again?
From Norse Myths to Beowulf
Main Lesson Books: How and Why
An introduction to the 4th gr Man & Animal Block

Painting in Peace
Geography Through the Grades
Help with Painting
Understanding the Temperaments
Advice on Music Instruction
8th Grade World History
Save Steiner Schools Campaign (UK)
Old Testament Stories
Reading and Telling Stories
Review: Kingdom of Childhood
Thinking About Music Instruction
4th Grade Man and Animal Block
Original or Copied Work
Report: Waldorf Education and Social Renewal
What is Waldorf?
Review: Waldorf in the Home DVD - Watercolor Painting
Music Lessons
The Waldorf View of Teaching
Religion Lessons
Multiculturalism

Active and Therapeutic Education

A Wonderful Circle Time Resource
The Twelve Senses
Free: Recording on Therapeutic Waldorf
(A Note on Therapeutic Talk)
Form Drawing
To Correct or Not to Correct (Form Drawing)
Form Drawing with Older Children
Review: Daena Ross DVD
Review: Autism - A Holistic Approach
Review: Working with Anxious, Nervous and Depressed Children
What is Eurythmy?
Review: The Out of Sync Child
Get Out of the House!

Kindergarten (and pre-K)

Is Childcare as Good as Mama-Care?
Revisiting Jean Liedloff and the Continuum Concept
Destructive Children Come to Play

When a Child Kills a Pet

A Question of Control
Helping Little Ones with Manners
Caring for a Cat
So How do You Manage All Day at Home?
From two to three - early ed and tinies
Review: Beyond the Rainbow Bridge
Speaking and Reading to Little Ones
Magazines for Little Children
Little Ones who Chatter

Early Learning

Older Children

A Follow Up to Teens and Texting
Empathy and Adolescents

A Home for Teens
Help with Physics
This Semester

Homeschool High School
A Teen Across America
High School World History
Handwork and Crafts for Older Children
Books for Teens
Last Year at Home
Friendly Teens
Maturation of Thought
Review:
The Real Truth About Teens and Sex
Keeping One Step Ahead
Extending Play

TV for Teens
Texting and Teens

Protecting the Heart of the Home

 

Language Arts

Is She Ready to Read or Not?
Playing with Language
Composition - when?
Spelling and Composition
Reading Readiness
Creating Good Readers

Science

Attention Scientists!
Upper Grades Chemistry
The Nature Institute
A Visit to the Science Museum

Family Life and Parenting

Drowning in Dialogue
A Job for Samuel

Imagination and Discipline

Boundaries

The Gesture of Giving and the Gesture of Taking
Dealing with Anger
Unending Personal Development
From Chaos to Form
Daddy Central
Steiner and Breastfeeding

A Bit of Benign Neglect
New Year's Resolutions
A Change of Clothes
Birthday Loveliness
Self Development as a Parent
Isolation or Family?
One Step at a Time
Passive Learning
Helping Children When You Move House
Computers - When?
Review: Penny Sparks Parenting Resources
A Child Who Hits
A Lovely Day of Nothing
Discipline Questions

Play

Sword and Gun Play
"Violent" Play
Rhythmic Play
Star Wars and Lego
Choosing Toys

Seasons and Festivals

Keeping Sane Over the Holidays
On Michaelmas
Candlemas
An Advent Reflection
Fall Festivals
Advent
Christmas with Older Children
Wonderful Halloween
Fall Festivals
January Activities
Non-Commercial Christmas

The Peace of Mary
Creating a Festival

Religion and Spirituality

Review: Living into Dying
Fantasy and Imagination
Anthroposophy, Religion and Waldorf

Health

Water Fluoridation
The Need to Be a Cling-On

Gardasil Warning
"Naturalness"
Let's Hear it for Hats!
On Illness, Fear and Time
Practical Suggestions for Sick Children
Time to be Ill?

Children and Society

UN Treaty Threatens Homeschooling Freedoms
Boy Scout Commandos

Encouraging Inner Listening

Introducing the Madonna Cloak Project
Early Years Rant 3
Follow-up - Early Years Rant
Early Years Rant
Real Life Political Lessons
A Computer for an 11 Year Old?
Fourteen Year Old Beaten to Death

Supporting Family Farms
Museum Baby
Dependency - Appropriate and Inappropriate
School or Family
Katrina's Orphan

Government Gone Mad

Articles by Consultant Lisa Marshall

Lisa and Family Hit the Road
Autumn in New York

Articles by Consultant Barbara Benson

Autumn Field Trips
The Child and the Community
A Watercolor Dip in the Ocean

Other Authors

An Immediate Threat to our Food Supply
Curative Education- A Review
Review: A Warm and Gentle Welcome, a WECAN publication
Hiking the Appalachian Trail

 

 


 

 

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