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  • Re: Homeschooling the Steiner Way

    Hi! Thank you so much for your encouragement, and a lot of what you suggest is so helpful! I just want to be able to -proved a good environment for my daughter to learn in which is not too chaotic! Trouble is, with there being only one child I try to get her to race with me to tidy up but she is going...
    Posted to Getting Started (Forum) by GillPruden on 06-01-2008
  • Re: Homeschooling for Pre-K

    Hi there, It is important when children are so young to encourage their creativity, imagination and curiosity. You might want to read a post that I just wrote on 5/1 re: early childhood. It's contents are geared toward questions re: homeschooling using a Waldorf/Steiner theory. If you read under...
    Posted to Getting Started (Forum) by hsiamy on 05-02-2008
  • Re: Having # 3 and #1 is an unmotiveated almost 5 year old...

    Hi Gill, Play is the quintessential activity of young children. It is the serious work of childhood. Creative play awakens and harnesses the power of imagination. For a young child the imagined world can have more reality than the actual world. This is the basis for early childhood programs in a Steiner...
    Posted to Getting Started (Forum) by hsiamy on 05-01-2008
  • Homeschooling the Steiner Way

    Hi! I'm Gill and I am about to start the amazing and scary adventure of homeschooling my five year old daughter. I plan to align myself to the Steiner Waldorf method and would really welcome any input from those who know what it's like to start out and anyone who is using/planning to use the...
    Posted to Getting Started (Forum) by GillPruden on 04-06-2008
  • Re: Having # 3 and #1 is an unmotiveated almost 5 year old...

    Thank you so much for this. sorry it has taken me so long to respond...I have been busy with the kiddos, adn trying to prepare for Rhiannon's (#3) arrival. I think I need to look more into the Waldorf education style. Thanks again for all the great info! TRacy
    Posted to Getting Started (Forum) by TracyC on 03-25-2008
  • Re: Having # 3 and #1 is an unmotiveated almost 5 year old...

    Hi Tracy, Thanks for posting your questions re: your 5 yr. old. I wanted to take this moment to talk a bit about the 3 stages of childhood and how that plays out in homeschooling. In my former life (before homeschooling) I was a teacher in a Waldorf school and earned a dual degree in Human Dev. and Family...
    Posted to Getting Started (Forum) by hsiamy on 03-20-2008
  • Re: Why did you choose to homeschool - or why do you continue?

    It seems as though we have tried a bit of everything...from private to public schooling and we have finally settled in nicely with homeschooling. When our oldest was 2 we began to really think about schools and their options. We found a wonderful Waldorf School that really opened our eyes up to the idea...
    Posted to Getting Started (Forum) by a on 12-12-2007
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