Earthschooling Inspirations - October 2009

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Earthschooling Inspirations October 2009

Vol 9, Issue 08

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Earthschoolers,This little clothespin doll above was made with some of the lovely Burr Oak Acorns that fall in our front yard every Autumn. If you would like some of these acorns please let my daughters, Sofi and Mosi know - they are doing the gathering and shipping this year from: Earthsessions Website.The Live Chats for Earthschooling members have been so popular I decided to invite some guests to chat with us and open the guest chats to non-members as well. I am very excited about the first four topics and speakers we have coming up! You can read all about it at the website:Live Chats at EarthschoolingBlessings & Health,Kristie

 

 

 

Live Consulting Chats for Earthschooling Members

 

 

Our second live chat, "Reading, Writing, Spelling and Grammar in Waldorf Education" was a great success. It was really fun to chat with other parents and to talk about how to introduce language to our children at different ages. As always the session was not just all about me giving out advice and answering questions - there were some amazing ideas and contributions from experienced members as well! This chat is now available as a downloadable PDF from the member website. Our next live chat will be on September 25th on the topic of "The Temperaments in Relationships and Education". To get prepared for the next live chat you can read my article about the temperaments in the summer edition of Lilipoh magazine.

 

 

 

October Earthschooling Verses Sample

 

Note: An MP3 is included with this song and all verses for Earthschooling members to help you with pronunciation and with tunes of any songs you may be unfamiliar with.Bubbles (Blow Bubbles with this song) Out in the garden when work was doneI blew bubbles in the sun. I blew a bubble huge as can be.It hung in the air for all to see. Into my bubbleI looked and foundA Shining land that was rainbow round It looked like a worldMeant for no one but fairiesThey'd keep little farms thereWith cows, chicks and dairiesWoods where the pixiesCould picnic for pleasureAnd hide near the rainbowsTheir crocks of strange treasure Countries were marked there Plain as could beGreen for a countryBlue for the seaPurple for heatherSunshine like goldBubble-land weatherCould never be cold. And then came a beeAll furry and fatBefore I could thinkWhat would he be atMy beautiful bubbleHe brushed with his wingAnd all that was leftWas a damp little ring!

 

 

 

New for Earthschooling Members

 

 

Do you want to be able to find everything you need for Waldorf Inspired homeschooling in one place instead of wandering around the internet and checking on tens of different groups and websites? You can do this now by becoming a forum member at:Earthschooling Forum or by becoming a Lifetime Member (all Lifetime members get a life of free forum membership if they sign up before October 1st - I am extending the deadline).Or would you just like to peak at/sample the new website? Everyone who orders one month of lesson plans gets one month of free access to the new website!The new member website is providing endless resources to members on the topic of Waldorf, Earthschooling, Steiner and more. The new website includes information on what you need for each age and what to expect, video tutorials, MP3s for the entire year, yoga movement cards, organizational videos and files. I add new material to the website every week based on member requests so that you never HAVE to leave the website to get what you need. Of course you can if you want to and I love getting inspired from so many different people too, but there is a big difference between "having to" be split between many resources and choosing to! I have even included some outside links on the new website if you choose to use other resources but you can rest assured that everything you need will be in one place here so you don't have to spend a lot of time wandering on those busy days.This is what one member had to say about the new website:"Have to say, the various options with the new website just keep getting better...how convenient it all is now, most everything right at hand in one place."New additions this week - * Form Drawing Basics for Grades 1-3* Form Drawing lessons for Grades 1-3 for October* Free Registration for the Upcoming Live Chats* A Dye Chart* More Steiner Excerpts and Quotes* A List of Supplies you Need for Each Grade & Resources* Study Groups for Each Age/Grade* Many more FAQs (New ones posted daily)* More Glossary Entries (look up what some Waldorf terms mean)And these are just "what's new". The website has so many things already!

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear Parents, I have been saddened by the number of e-mails that are lost each day on the internet. Many of them are not even lost, they go into your BULK or SPAM folders. Some people have these folders on automatic delete or they do not check them. Other e-mails are lost - either ones you sent to me or ones I sent to you. I want you to know that I spend hours (yes, hours LOL) each day answering your e-mails and questions and I treat each e-mail with special care. If you have not heard back from me please know that I did not ignore you - your e-mail was lost coming to me or mine was lost going back to you. Please try contacting me via Facebook (link in the right hand column) or herbnhome or via the . Please indicate that you did not hear back from me so I know to be extra careful sending e-mail to you. Also PLEASE remember to check your BULK and SPAM e-mail boxes - I find mail in there DAILY from the waldorfschoolonline , from friends, family and clients. - THANKS!

 

 

 

 

Articles This Month

 

Live Earthschooling Chats

 

New Member Forum

 

New Waldorf Channel Show!

 

September Story of the Month

 

 

 

 

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Be sure to check out our consulting board and the consulting board FAQs for answers to your questions from experts in the feild: These experts are now only available to members of www.Earthschooling.com

 

 

 

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There are so many opportunities to connect to what we are doing at www.EarthSchooling.com and to connect with other parents. Link to some of the links below and join us at these additional forums for a more holistic experience:

 

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Live Chat Guests for 2009!

 

I am excited to introduce you to our live chat guests and topics for the rest of 2009. If you would like to sign up to attend one of these live chats you can do so at: Earthschooling Live ChatsSeptember 25th, 11AM CST - The Temperaments in Teachingwith Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND of www.Earthschooling.com

Join Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND, an expert in temperaments and typology, to discuss how to most effectively teach and relate to your child according to their temperament. You can read one of her recent articles on the temperaments in the summer issue of Lilipoh magazine. Each participant will receive instruction on how to type their child and the difference between different temperaments will also be discussed. Become a forum or Earthschooling member today and receive an invite to this chat.October 2nd, 10AM PST - Inspiration for Parents - Unconditional Parenting, How to Stay Inspired and Using Stories in Parentingwith Chris Cade of http://www.spiritual-short-stories.com/

Chris Cade has been inspiring millions of people daily through his website Spiritual Short Stories. Many Earthschooling and Waldorf parents to his newsletter and are already familiar with his work. I know that a number of Waldorf teachers and parents use stories from his website for their daily "inner work" meditation as well as for Main Lessons or story time. Chris will join us for an hour on October 2nd to answer questions and share wisdom about "Unconditional Parenting", stories in parenting and how he stays inspired as a parent. Chris is the visionary behind world's #1 Spiritual Story site online. In April, Chris asked to be laid off so that he could follow his dreams to empower people worldwide with his network of spiritual websites, the Inscribe Your Life program, and his upcoming printed book "Think Without the Box." www.inscribeyourlife.com www.spiritual-short-stories.com www.chriscade.comNovember 20th, 11am CST - Teaching Piano with Waldorf Methodswith Sarah Lyngra of http://www.yellowcatpublishing.com/

Sarah Lyngra has been teaching piano using her own unique method of storytelling, colors and movement since 1990. Her books are now sold on Amazon and are popular among many teachers - even outside the Waldorf community. She will join us on November 20th to answer questions about her unique method of piano teaching and to talk about how you can introduce your child to music in some very unique and creative new ways. December - Handiwork in Waldorf Educationwith Jennifer Tan of Gosh Yarn It!

Jennifer Tan enjoys teaching spinning, crochet, Tunisian crochet, knitting, cro-hook, felting, natural dyeing and scrumbling. She homeschools her three children using Waldorf methods. She is an expert in many areas of handiwork and will be available during our December live chat to answer your questions about handiwork. She has been featured on DIY and HGTV's "Uncommon Threads" and runs a popular blog where she chronicles her homeschooling adventures with her husband and children.

 

 

 

October Story of the Month

 

 

 

A Spiritual Halloween TaleBy Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND This story is based on the "Halloween" tradition in the hills of Lebanon, the tradition of all Saints Day around the world (as an alternative to Halloween) and other stories of the Saint Barbara, which vary largely according to, whom is telling them! This story provides an alternate "vision" for Halloween for those people who seek more spiritual meaning for the holiday instead of the commercial meaning that is now given. This is one of four possible Halloween stories included in the Earthschooling curriculum. This story is suitable for people of all religions - even those who have a more spiritual or earth-based outlook on spirituality and do not belong to a religious group. This universal story suited our International class very well! How this Story Came About: Is it true?Legends and stories are never "true" and mine is probably as true as any other. I have created this legend from a combination of a story I was told by word of mouth, legends that vary in telling within the church version of the same story and some additions I made myself that reflect the way Halloween is celebrated today (to keep it all in one tidy package as a story). I have highlighted in red the original Lebanese version and in blue the Christian version. All else is my creation or elaboration. Call it "historical fiction". As you can see from reading about the Saints, that is what most of it is anyway. There is no one story - they are all different in some way! The same goes for Halloween. If you tried to find the one "true" version of the story you would search forever and ever as even versions that seem similar are changed from book to book and Internet site to Internet site. As far as the origin of the holiday, through my hours of research I have found many a story and claim of origin but it seems the truth is that the holiday originated in many places for many different reasons and that today many cultures try to combine all these reasons or they just simply celebrate it in a very generic and commercial way using only the symbols of the holiday (ghosts, witches, pumpkins) but none of the spiritual meaning. The Druids, Romans and the Catholic Church among others celebrated this holiday. In each instance it had a spiritual meaning and usually involves a pumpkin or gourd or some evil spirit. It is only today that the holiday is celebrated without any positive spiritual overtones. If you want copies of some of the Druid or Roman stories look them up on the Internet or ask me. Saint Barbara A long time ago in the region of what is now Turkey there lived a woman of great beauty called Barbara. Her father prayed to wooden idols and many gods and so did she. (Much like the ancient Romans, like the movie Hercules or like in the movie The Road to ElDorado.) Some people even whispered that she must be a goddess because she was so beautiful. One man even wanted to make a statue of her and put it in the temple. Her father became concerned at all the attention she was getting so one day he led her away from her home in the village and locked her up in a castle in the hills on the outskirts of the village. He came every day after that to give her only food and drink but he never let anyone visit her. Day after day she gazed out the window and said to herself "I wish I could get out of here and see my friends." But she was not allowed. So she made friends with the birds and the squirrels that came to her castle. She would share her bread with them and learned the songs of the birds and learned to love the land that they lived in. When her animal friends did not come she often gazed out upon the countryside to see the beauty of nature - the sunsets, the green grass, the flowers and the fruit trees. She was struck by the thought that someone very great must have made these things and that the wooden statues her father prayed to could not have made them. Her heart was filled with joy at the wonder of the view out her window and the beauty of the earth. So she asked her animal friends "Who made the trees?" she asked the squirrel. The squirrel just chattered and scrambled down the tree. "Who made the sky you fly in?" she asked the bird and the bird just flapped his wings and soared through the sky. But just then the bird turned into a bright light and she saw a glow in the sky outside her window. The light seemed to hover like the bird above the tree and she did not hear anything but felt that it spoke to her. It said, "The creator has made these things." Every day after that she was visited by her friend, the angelic bird, and he told her many things about the earth and the sun and the heavens and who made them. Meanwhile her father did start to feel sorry for her and let her out of the castle to see people every once in a while. Whenever he let her out she would tell people about her bird friend in the castle and the things he told her and they would all shake their heads, "yes, yes, my dear." She spoke so quickly that they could not figure out what she was saying. "The poor girl, "they said, "she has gone crazy from all those years in the castle." Her father felt even more sorry for her now for he felt he had brought all this upon her. So as a gift to his only daughter he built a beautiful bathhouse to bathe in. It had two large stain glass windows, which let in the most beautiful light that shimmered and danced on the waters of the stone bath in the center of the room. The room filled with the rainbows and colored light was her favorite place to sit and think for in this room she was filled with light herself and bathed in not only the water, but the warmth of the sun and the brilliant rainbows that filled the room.Usually I provide the entire story here but I have run out of room this month - you can make up your own end to the story or you can see the rest of the story in the October lesson plans at: www.Earthschooling.com. The main value I wanted to convey with this sample is that you can create your own stories and traditions for holidays if the ones that are already there don't resonate with you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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