Chalkboard fun

We have been diligently having our lesson time each day. I have started the children on a Rudolf Steiner curriculum and after an initial protest they have settled down quite well.  Our oldest girl went to a Steiner school for a year and a half many years ago and I have liked the teaching method ever since.  I didn't have the motivation to put all the children through the Steiner education until recently when I realised that it was now or never. Our Fairy Girl is 8 and she is the last one of the brood so I decided this year we would learn with colour, story and form.  They love it now and I get to do lovely chalkboard and crayon drawings every few days as well as telling loads of stories! Not too sure about the North Wind though.... he needs a bit of a facial reconstruction, although my students thought he was pretty cool! 

The chalkboard pic above was a digression from the Properties of Numbers block that we have been doing. The number was four and we looked at the four quarters of the moon cycle. I found this lovely diagram and verse on Our Little Nature Nest, a fantastic blog for Steiner lessons. She does a really great job of putting her lesson blocks together and has so much information and many ideas for each one.  

Fairy Girl drew this herself on the mini chalkboard as well as in her Main Lesson book and we found out all sorts of interesting facts about the moon as well. I didn't know how to tell if the moon was waxing or waning and now find myself repeating the verse when I look at the moon! 

Then I just had to write a nice verse for the Equinox. Well, I only 'wrote' it on the board ....and changed a few words to suit what we are experiencing in our area! Oh and the number that lesson was five! 

It is taking me some time to feel a bit more comfortable with working out the lessons and I still haven't got the hang of putting together the Main Lesson and the smaller lessons that come after but slowly and surely I'm feeling a little more confidant every day.