The Parent and Child Group Handbook
A Steiner/Waldorf Approach

Dot Male

Softbound

Published in partnership with the Alliance for Childhood

$30.00

The Parent and Child Group Handbook features lively case studies from Waldorf parent and child groups in the UK. It is an inspiring resource and guide that draws on the author's rich experience in this area.

Written in 12 chapters, this unique handbook includes Steiner's theory of child development; ways to structure a session; appropriate toys and activities; suggestions for a shared meal; the circle time; various festivals; issues of health, safety, and the law; marketing, publicity, and fund raising; and much more.

This handbook is worthy resource for parents, teachers and early years educators, health visitors, play group leaders, and family support services.

A Journey Through Waldorf Homeschooling
Kindergarten

New Edition - includes CD with illustrations and audio material

Melisa Nielson

Contributions by Kimberly Rivera

Foreword by Alan Whitehead

Softbound

$22.00

Welcome a lively little book that introduces the wonders of Waldorf homeschooling from the heart of someone who has done it. Melisa Nielson originally began her book as a companion to Susan Whitehead's seasonal kindergarten books, but it grew and deepened to the point where it will guide and nurture your efforts through any seasonally themed Waldorf kindergarten suggestions.

What I most like about A Journey Through Waldorf Homeschooling is the amount of life on each page -- the ideas and activities that are recounted here clearly came into the world with the full force of the author's creativity and imagination. The wonderful news is that she hands over to us not just a usable description of what she did, but her enthusiasm and joy in the doing of them. It is this latter quality which will nourish any children fortunate enough to be touched by it.

This is a book to be done, not just read. And in the doing, your own life and happiness will spring to life for your child.

Contents:

• Foreword by Alan Whitehead
• Introduction from the author
• Intro to Waldorf and Anthroposophy
• Book resource list
• Supplies list
• The kindergarten years
• Rhythm: Day, Month, Year
• Festivals
• The Nature Table
• Planning your year/ Using main lesson
  blocks/Working with multi aged children
• Using seasonal books and anthologies
• Painting, form drawing, and handwork with young children
• Circle Time
• Week by week schedule
• Favorite verses and circle time songs
• Compiled Waldorf Curriculum
• Recommended Vendors
• In closing
• Appendix: recipes

Nurturing Children and Families
One Model of a Parent/Child Program in a Waldorf School

Sarah Baldwin

Softbound

$22.95

Sarah Baldwin has created a beautiful portrait of the grace that a Waldorf parent/child program can be -- for the parents, the children and the entire community. She writes from her heart, from her considerable knowledge of children and families, and from her experience leading the Ashwood School's Parent/Child Class. The result is a book that covers all the bases, from why to have such a class at all, to what sort of qualities a parent/child teacher needs, to a detailed description of the rhythms of day and season in her own class. In addition, about half the book is devoted to discussion about parent education, space, publicity, festivals, field trips, birthdays and more. Finally, there are brief descriptions of other Parent/Child classes at other schools.

All in all, this is a beautiful, delicious resource -- one which will inspire and guide anyone interested in young children, families and the fostering of healthy community. Like a small seed on fertile soil, I can see this book growing beyond its covers until it shares its harvest with all who pass by.

Kindergarten with Your Three to Six Year Old

Christopherus Homeschool Resources
Practical Waldorf at Home

Donna Simmons

Spiralbound

$29.00

Donna Simmons has done it again! This time she has produced a comprehensive, life-filled overview of the nature of the Waldorf Kindergarten, most especially, what it might look like in a home setting. Her background information sings with love and understanding of the young child; her explanations and examples are family-centered, warm and inspiring.

If you've been looking for a resource that would take you inside a Waldorf kindergarten and show you how to give these gifts to your young child(ren) at home, this is it. Thank you, again, Donna!

Contents:

• Introduction
• The Kindergarten Child
• Family Life
• A Typical Day
• Elements of the Day
• How to Do It
• Other People
• The Six Year Old
• Questions and Answers
• For You to Use

Kindergarten Education
Freeing children's creative potential

Betty Peck

Softbound

$27.00

What can children gain from the treasured world of childhood that will enrich their adult lives? Educator Betty Peck celebrates the power of Kindergarten to help children find their creativity and imagination, opening the door to a passionate relationship with learning.

Using vivid case studies from her own experience and from the research of Froebel and other early-years pioneers, the author demonstrates how a holistic, loving approach to pre-school education opens the door to:

• Enabling creativity, awareness, wonder and discovery
• Meeting the spiritual and physical growth needs of young children
• Storytelling, movement, ring time and play
• Celebrating festivals and the seasonal round
• Creating play gardens to discover nature’s secrets
• Involving families and communities

This is an essential resource for teachers and parents who want to give their children a more meaningful education.

Gardening with Young Children

Beatrys Lockie

Softbound

$27.00

I have personally been waiting for over 20 years for someone to write this beautiful book. It is a joy to see it and to recognize in it everything I've ever wanted to see on this topic placed between two covers.

Beatrys Lockie is a passionate organic gardener who taught in a Waldorf kindergarten for many years and found a seemingly unlimited number of ways to pass along to young children her enthusiasm for gardening. Anyone wanting to do the same will love this book as much as I do.

In fact, anyone wanting to learn to garden from a master will love this book, for she includes all the basics of gardening along with her ways of sharing it with our little ones.

And, if you already know how to garden, but want to learn how to work with young children, she shows you that, too. The first part of the book is like walking into her kindergarten where she quietly shows us the rhythms and ways of what is to me a sacred space wherein children can blossom.

Gardening with Young Children answers so many needs with so much love that it simply brings tears to my eyes to read it. I hope that it becomes the seed to many, many gardens that invite children into the world of nature.

Let's Talk - Let's Play
Helping Children Learn How to Learn from Life

Jane Winslow Eliot

Softbound

$14.00

The author moves with ease and confidence as she teaches us how to teach young children in poetry, song, and play. She explains both why and how archetypal games grow out of the nature of children and language.

This is a beautiful book - filled with the love that embodies a Waldorf kindergarten, filled with the magic and joy of yound children. Ms. Eliot is not only a master teacher, but a great lover of life whose give it is to lead children and adults to share in that love.

Lono the Island and Coco Boato
A Little Autumn Handbook

Spiritual Syllabus Story and Picture Handbook for Waldorf Early Childhood Education

Susan Whitehead

$22.95

One of four of the best guides to Waldorf early childhood education that I've ever seen! Lono is an Autumn resource handbook with story, songs and suggested activities that all focus on building. A beautiful and graceful walk through a season of early childhood.

The Silver Story of Silver Stork
A Little Winter Handbook

A Spiritual Syllabus Story and Picture Handbook for Waldorf Early Childhood Education

Susan Whitehead

$22.95

The "winter story" of these four wonderful early childhood handbooks. This one includes story, songs, activities with creative ideas on puppetry. I should also mention that, as with all the Spiritual Syllabus early childhood handbooks, this one is packed with background information that includes attitude, intent and purpose behind these wonderful stories.

Snowdrop and Ulba Bulba
A Little Spring Handbook

A Spiritual Syllabus Story and Picture Handbook for Waldorf Early Childhood Education

Susan Whitehead

$22.95

Welcome the spring with this joyous nature-resurrection story-song-activities book. The activities here focus on modeling and all of spring's creatures have a role, from seeds to caterpillars to flowers.

Fire Flower Flamers and the Earthy Men
A Little Summer Handbook

A Spiritual Syllabus Story and Picture Handbook for Waldorf Early Childhood Education

Susan Whitehead

$22.95

Share the glory of summer with your little ones. Susan Whitehead has given us a Morning Sun Song to greet each day and a shimmering summer story. The activities emphasize dressing up.

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