An Overview of the Waldorf Kindergarten
Articles from the Waldorf Kindergarten Newsletter
1981-1992

Waldorf Kindergarten Association

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An Overview gathers together articles that both explain and seek to share the Waldorf Kindergarten experience. In it you will find information ranging from snacks to music to working with young children with a variety of behavioral and learning difficulties. The breadth of the topics and the liveliness of the discussions makes it one of the most valuable resources for our work with young children. There is practically no aspect of daily life in a Waldorf Early Childhood class that is not addressed. An invaluable resource!

A Deeper Understanding of the Waldorf Kindergarten
Articles from the Waldorf Kindergarten Newsletter 1981 to 1992

Waldorf Kindergarten Association

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The deeper wisdom of the Waldorf approach to early childhood education is the subject of this collection of articles found in the Waldorf Kindergarten Association Newsletters between 1981 and 1992. The breadth of the topics and the depth of the discussions can enrich and enliven both your understanding and your work with young children. Here is an opportunity to discover some of the most successful approaches to working with children with learning and behavioral challenges, to coping with the effects of the multiple strains families are subject to, and to nourish your own inner life so that you have a richness of soul to offer the children in your care. Most highly recommended.

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Written and Illustrated by Howard Pyle

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I grew up at a time when Robin Hood and his Merry Men were a vibrant part of popular culture -- all the children I played with knew the stories as well as I did, and all of us loved Robin Hood and wanted to be just like him. The amount of pretend sword fighting and arrow shooting that we did was enough to leave even our energetic rabble ready for dinner and bedtime.

Looking back on my Robin Hood days, I still feel happy and grateful to have had them -- they provided all of us with wonderful adventures requiring real courage and derring-do. And, they gave us a model of someone who stood outside an unjust law, yet upheld a truer law and with a generous heart. Really, how could anyone ask for anything more for a child's imagination?

Howard Pyle's classic retelling of the Robin Hood tales is, in my opinion, the best available. The language is wonderful, Pyle's illustrations capture each moment while leaving lots of room for more imaginings, and he has told the greatest number of Robin Hood legends between two covers. Here are stories to nourish our childrens' brave hearts. Wonderful stuff!

Seven Times the Sun
Guiding Your Child through the Rhythms of the Day

Shea Darian

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Seven Times the Sun is a simply the best parenting book I've seen.

Shea Darian's approach is radically different from any other I've found in print: where other's have offered considered, often good, advice, Shea sprinkles the magic of stories, songs, simple rituals whimsy and celebration into daily life, then seasons this mixture with quiet times and a few parenting tips for helping your child feel secure.

The result? As you bring her gifts, one after another into your life and especially into that of your children, you'll find your home becoming a happy place to live, a place where all of you -- children and adults -- come to know you are loved, a place you all look forward to being in when away and are at peace with when you are there.

Will this banish every storm cloud that overcasts your life? No, of course not. But in a home with song and simple ritual and stories, storms are only part of the landscape, seldom devastating.

This is an approach from the heart, for the heart. You'll find it's healing magic is just what you've always wanted.

On Reading and Writing
towards a phenomenology and pathology of literacy

Karl König

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In these meditations on hand and eye, attention and uprightness, light and sound, death and resurrection, Karl König attempts to reveal the phenomena out of which writing and reading manifest - or fail to develop.

König's observations lead directly to pathways of education. He notes correctly that the extreme modern pressures on children to achieve types of literacy can often stunt the development of healthy imagination, feeling and willing. All teachers and interested parents will want to read this remarkable book -- it's depth and accessiblity will not only increase your awareness of the phenomena of reading and writing, I believe you'll find that König's presentation will open your heart as well. This is an amazing work.

The Power of Limits
Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture

Gyorgy Doczi

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The Power of Limits (finally back in print!) is an exposition of the rhythms and harmonies of both natural and artistic forms. I have used its contents for meditative contemplation for many years now, and have not come even close to exhausting the insights and revelations Doczi's remarkable book evokes. Whenever I get frustrated at how slowly postive change comes about, I reach for The Power of Limits to remind myself of the grace and beauty that limitation brings the world. Steiner defined art as "the impress of the spirit upon matter." Doczi shows us what that means.

Space and Counterspace
An Introduction to Modern Geometry

Louis Locher-Ernst

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This classic examination of Projective Geometry offers a detailed exposition of the topic from a variety of perspectives and will be a great aid to Waldorf teachers and others seeking to penetrate the thinking behind this important topic.

Hand Bookbinding
A Manual of Instruction

Aldren A Watson

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Rudolf Steiner established Bookbinding as one of the required classes in the high school curriculum of the original Waldorf School. In his day, this was actually an essential skill for anyone wishing to build a personal library: books were sold in unbound signatures; it was up to the buyer to create a protective (and hopefully beautiful) cover. In our day, Bookbinding is still taught in Waldorf high schools, and although it is no longer a necessary skill, it is a richly rewarding one.

This is one of those how-to books that has everything you could want in it - it will take you and/or your student(s) step-by-step through the basics of bookbinding, and then introduce you to some very elegant techniques as well. Watson details materials and tools, and even offers some history as well. Everything is illustrated with beautiful and clear drawings and explained clearly and completely. I can't imagine anyone not falling in love with bookbinding by the time they finish looking through the book.

A Study Guide for Rudolf Steiner's Heart-Thinking

Mark Riccio

Softbound

We received a large stack of these books that had been damaged in transit: crushed corners, folded covers, dog eared pages, dents in the cover, etc. None of the damage spoils the contents or readability, but the books are far from new-looking. Mark decided along with us to turn consternation into delight by offering these books at a substantial savings. Enjoy!

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The process of learning Steiner's heart-thinking was once described to me (by someone who was not Mark Riccio) as a process of reading and parsing each and every word of Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom (aka Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path) until you were so bored that you left yourself open for a moment of enlightenment. I need to add here that this person said this as a genuine explanation of the process he taught.

Those of you who know me even just a little can imagine how quickly I distanced myself from this process. In retrospect, it is really a shame that I didn't meet Mark Riccio and his approach first, because Mark actually thinks with his heart and loves with his thinking so much that the notion of boredom as a path of inner development never crosses his mind.

Instead, what you will find is an invitation to experience the warmth that Steiner's "intellectual" work can impart; to discover the clear thinking that love can evoke; and a process that is true joy. All of which is so very much closer everything I understand to be in accord with Steiner's suggestions for inner development (e.g., in Knowledge of the Higher Worlds Steiner remarks that the world cannot teach us anything save through our own enjoyment of it).

Mark's Study Guide is a joyous step-by-step instruction which you can undertake alone or share within a group. Coming as it does from the author of an article aptly titled "The Joy of Text" (now a chapter in this book), you can imagine that boredom (which does have its place in our lives, mind you) is not the focus of the process. Here is a path of which I can only say, "Try it, you'll like it." And it will like you, too.

"Das Goetheanum"
The Architectural Impulse of Rudolf Steiner

LightFilled Productions

VHS Video Cassette - 20 minutes

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Take a walking tour of not only the current Goetheanum, but also the original "First Goetheanum" that was destroyed by fire in 1924. Through the magic of the camera, LightFilled Productions has taken available photographs and recreated the First Goetheanum - beginning with construction. The camera guides the viewer along an intimate tour of the forms and expanses of this unique building. After the fire of 1924, we see the debris cleared and a new building rise out of its ashes. At the end, we are treated to a view of the surrounding buildings that have been built nearby - inspired by Steiner's vision of architecture.

The effect of this tour is heightened by the absence of narration, with music being the only sound as one "walks" along, pausing to look at these remarkable structures.