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History through Stories Teaching Primary History with Storytelling

By: CHRIS SMITH, ADAM GUILLAIN AND NANETTE NOONAN

Price: $115.00

Publisher: Hawthorn Press:

Seller ID: 14654

ISBN: 1907359443

Collection of stories for teaching history in primary schools with a set of follow-up activities for each topic. Stories cover commonly taught topics and are designed to be learned and retold orally by students. Each story comes with engaging and inclusive ways to link that story to history teaching, English literacy skills and other subject areas.
General introduction; introduction to Storytelling Schools approach; ‘Our Ancestors’ overarching narrative of English history; 20 other history topics containing 34 stories, from ‘Mammoth Hunters’ to ‘Nelson Mandel...
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Uprightness, Weight and Balance

By: CLAUDIA ALLGOEWER, ANDREAS BIELFELD-ACKERMANN, AND MANFRED VON MACKENSEN

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Waldorf Publications:

Seller ID: 3634

ISBN: 1888365536

This book presents a phenomenological study of anatomy for the eighth grade.

Included are practical exercises that the students undertake to discover the scientific basis for uprightness, balance, and their polarity with gravity or weight.

Many illustrations help to visualize the underlying concepts.
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Waldorf Education Rudolf Steiner's Ideas in Practice

By: CLOUDER, CHRISTOPHER, RAWSON, MARTYN

Price: $20.00

Publisher: United Kingdom, Floris Books: 2003

Seller ID: 732

ISBN: 0863153968

Binding: Paperback

10 colour photographs
This is an essential introduction to the practice of Rudolf Steiner's ideas in education. The authors explain the innovative approaches to child development and education as found in Steiner-Waldorf classrooms around the world. They discuss the practical aspects of teaching, the celebration of seasonal festivals, the stages of child development, early education, later years, environmental education, and much more. "Waldorf Education" is one of the best and most accessible introductions to this unique and effective form of education. It is an ideal gift for p...
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Teaching Science Through the Grades

By: COMPILED BY DAVID MITCHELL

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Waldorf Publications:

Seller ID: 15909

ISBN: 1943582424

Here is a book with a variety of essays by experienced Waldorf teachers on the unique approach to science in Waldorf schools, first grade through twelfth grade. Each of the authors represented has years of experience in the thrill of teaching science phenomenologically. Science really starts in Kindergarten in these schools with careful observation and joy in the natural world an integral part of every day in the pre-school years. This continues through the grades with increasing focus given to observation as an art and a high-level skill; and increasing focus, as the grades go up, on clear t...
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Biographies for Eighth Grade

By: COOK, SUSAN

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Waldorf Publications:

Seller ID: 3528

ISBN: 1888365927

Susan Cook has assembled the stories of twenty remarkable men and women from around the world including: John Harrison, Eli Whitney, Sequoyah, Simon Bolivar, Benito Juarez, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Clara Barton, Marie Curie, Janusz Korczak, Hellen Keller. Mao Zedong, Nien Cheng, Jomo Jenyatta, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez, and Wangari Maathai. Each chapter has one or more illustrations by students from the San Francisco Waldorf School
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Parenting a Path Through Childhood

By: COPLEN, DOTTY TURNER

Price: $19.99

Publisher: United Kingdom, Floris Books: 1982

Seller ID: 1273

ISBN: 0903540614

Introduces an understanding of parenting by asking, what is a child, what is a parent, and why does a child need a parent. This book leaves dogma behind and brings the reader to the reality of daily living. Combining her experience as a mother and grandmother with her studies in psychology and social work, the author presents a warm and human way of understanding the nature and needs of children. Parents and professionals working with children will find this a helpful book for understanding children, developing an awareness of their individual differences and observing how behaviour is learned...
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To Grow and Become

By: COPPLE, RUDOLF

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Waldorf Publications:

Seller ID: 3631

ISBN: 0962397873

Stories for older children
This is a collection of lesser-known stories addressing some of the deeper questions of children. Collected by a long-time class teacher, who found these particularly nourishing for children through fifth grade. Stories include “Old Gerasimus and the Lion,” “Maiden Lene of Søndervand,” and “Ilya.”
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Soul Development Through Handwriting The Waldorf Approach to the Vimala Alphabet

By: CREBBIN, JENNIFER

Price: $44.99

Publisher: United States, Anthroposophic Press Inc: 2007

Seller ID: 1179

ISBN: 0880105879

Binding: Paperback

illustrations
Soul Development through Handwriting cultivates the noble qualities to which Waldorf education has long been devoted through the use of specific forms for shaping letters. The Vimala Alphabet was meticulously designed to support independent thinking, engaged willpower, balance, tolerance, honor, and intuition, as well as strengthening the developing soul forces of children.
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Home Away From Home

By: CYNTHIA ALDINGER AND MARY O'CONNELL

Price: $44.00

Publisher: Alliance for Childhood:

Seller ID: 9994

ISBN: 1452856281

238 pages, perfect-bound
Chapters include: What is LifeWays Child Care? -- The Many Faces of Lifeways -- Home Away from Home: Rhythms, Routines and the Living Arts -- Finding Your Colleagues -- Business Questions -- and more
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Teaching Foreign Languages The Steiner-Waldorf School Approach

By: DAHL, ERHARD

Price: $27.99

Publisher: Floris Books:

Seller ID: 13589

ISBN: 1782501207

At one level, the teaching and learning foreign languages has its own set of skills and challenges for teacher and student. In Steiner-Waldorf schools, however, the guiding principle of language teaching is constant: to engage with all aspects of the student -- his or her experiences, personality and movement -- to help the student connect deeply with the foreign language.

Erhard Dahl, an experienced language teacher, here offers a wealth of insight into how Steiner-Waldorf schools approach foreign language teaching, including English as a Foreign Language in non-English speaking coun...
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You are Your Child's First Teacher Encouraging Your Child's Natural Development from Birth to Age Six

By: DANCY, RAHIMA BALDWIN

Price: $30.00

Publisher: United States, Ten Speed Press: 2012

Seller ID: 12660

ISBN: 1607743027

Binding: Paperback

illustrations
"You Are Your Child's First Teacher" was the first book in America to popularize the insights of Rudolf Steiner, founder of the Waldorf schools, regarding the developmental needs of young children. This revised and updated edition offers new ways for parents and educators to enrich the lives of children from birth to age six. Some of the most important learning years happen before your child reaches school. In You Are Your Child's First Teacher, respected Waldorf educator Rahima Baldwin Dancy explains the different stages of learning that children go through from bi...
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Living Passages for the Whole Family Celebrating Rites of Passage from Birth to Adulthood

By: DARIAN, SHEA

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Phoenix, Arizona, Gilead Press:

Seller ID: 7877

ISBN: 0967571324

A ground-breaking resource for creating contemporary rites of passage in the family from birth to adulthood... for parents, grandparents, mentors, counselors, and educators of all faiths.

Creative ideas for celebrating contemporary rites of passage from birth to age 21
Guidance for making soulful connections to secular rites of passage in the 21st century
Over 20 rites of passage ceremonies for infants, children, youths, and adults
Over 30 songs to honor life transitions
Ideas for celebrating birthday passages
Guides for imparting ...
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Early Readers Series Sam Cat readers

By: DAVIDOW, SHELLEY

Price: $42.00

Publisher: Jalmar Press:

Seller ID: 12786

ISBN: 1931061505

These warm and wonderful readers will delight both students and teachers as they guide young children along the path of written language one step at a time. Written in order and phonetically, each story focuses on specific word groups, sounds and sentence structures. Each story has a beginning, middle and an ending. Succeeding stories build on these skills and then move on to the next level of skill. The books are conceived in much the same way as the “Dick and Jane” readers of an earlier era, but with a very important difference: these stories have a touching “heart con...
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Tell Me Another Story

By: DE FOREST, LOUISE

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 15786

ISBN: 193684950X

Binding: Perfect bound

A second collection of stories gathered from Waldorf early childhood teachers all over the country longing to share what they love with those who love children. Because it is in the sharing—the telling—that a story comes alive, the more you tell stories, the more you will hear, “Tell me another story.”
35 black-and-white illustrations, hand-drawn by Deborah Grieder and Jo Valens.
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Creative Word The Young Child's Experience of Language and Stories

By: DE HAES, DANIEL UDO

Price: $29.00

Publisher: Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America:

Seller ID: 13341

ISBN: 1936849240

Binding: Perfect bound

In this small book, we embark on a fascinating journey into the consciousness of the very young child. Toddlers need our understanding and support as they make the great transition from wordless communion with the world to encountering people and things through human language. Out of his wisdom and experience, Dutch educator Daniel Udo de Haes brings guidance in how to gently and sensitively help children through this transition.
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World of Fairy Tales A path to the essence of the young child through fairy tales

By: DE HAES, DANIEL UDO

Price: $36.00

Publisher: WECAN:

Seller ID: 15095

ISBN: 1936849437

Out of his wisdom and experience, Dutch educator Daniel Udo de Haes offers perspective on how to enrich and guide early childhood development through fairy tales. Fairy tales and old folktales are rich in powerful images that can seem out of place in the early childhood classroom. Drawing clear analogies between the child’s journey into the school-age years and the truths and lessons in fairy tale language, Udo de Haes’s discussion brings educators and parents new understanding to the ways in which well-told fairy tales prevent “impoverishment through the loss of something th...
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Sun Seeds Poems and Verses for Children

By: DIANE WATKIN

Price: $47.00

Publisher: Self-published:

Seller ID: 13084

Poetry carries images and feelings which nurture imaginative ideals and ideas for later life.

Good speech helps develop clear thinking. Enjoy these verses with children you know!
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Homemaking and Personal Development Meditative Practice for Homemakers. Meditative Practice for Homemakers

By: DUIN, VERONIKA VAN

Price: $54.99

Publisher: United Kingdom, Rudolf Steiner Press: 2008

Seller ID: 7961

ISBN: 1855842122

Why do things go well one day and badly another? Events are the same; the homemaker is the same; yet one day nothing works out, and the next everything seems miraculously to fall into place. Is there something special within us that we can access and cultivate to gain equilibrium?

Veronika van Duin began her career forty years ago as a homemaker. Beginning with love, enthusiasm, and idealism, she quickly discovered that she had underestimated the magnitude of the task, which left her feeling inadequate and guilty much of the time, as well as alone and occasionally lonely.
[When ...
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First Grade Readiness: Resources, Insights and Tools for Waldorf Educators

By: ED. NANCY BLANNING

Price: $49.00

Publisher: Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America:

Seller ID: 9987

ISBN: 1936849321

167 pages, spiral-bound
Experienced teachers, doctors and therapists give guidance in the nature and needs of the child between six and seven, how to observe children for signs of readiness, and creating and carrying a healthy transition from kindergarten to grade school. Includes four different sample observation forms, to help schools to develop their own readiness observation procedures.
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Working with the Angels The Gateways Series - Volume Two

By: ED. SUSAN HOWARD

Price: $39.00

Seller ID: 10016

ISBN: 0979623200

127 pages, perfect-bound
A compilation of articles from the newsletter of the Early Childhood Association of North America. Topics included are: Working with the Angels; The Destiny of the Child in Our Times; The Gateway of Birth- the Sistine Madonna; The Gateway of Death - Working with Death in the Kindergarten; The Inner Path.
Contents include: Finding a Connection to the World of the Angels, Working with the Karma of the Young Child, Walking and the Incarnation of Destiny, Continuing the Work of the Hierarchies, Early Childhood and the Consciousness Soul, Threshold Experie
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