The school year has well and truly finished and I’ve had time to gather my thoughts and put the finishing touches on my Grade Five Essentials. Not a complete curriculum, by any means, my Essentials packet includes all of the basics for forming your fifth grade year.
- The Upper Grades Morning Verse — The translation I like best.
- A Grade Five Sample Block Rotation — When should you teach each main lesson block? Here is my calendar of the year in the form of main lesson content.
- A Grade Five Sample Weekly Schedule — Including my thoughts on what is the best weekly schedule.
- A Grade Five Sample Main Lesson Rhythm — The nuts and bolts of how that two hour main lesson block is spent.
- A Grade Five Curriculum Overview — A small taste of how and why the Waldorf Grade Five curriculum meets the 10-11 year old.
- A Grade Five Year End Summary and Block Report — This is a more extensive document looking back over the work we accomplished. It includes information about the main lesson blocks, as well as the weekly specialty classes.
- A Main Lesson Book Liner — Does your students’ writing slope down the page? Print this out and have them put it behind their work to keep straight lines.
My hope is that these materials provide teachers with the excitement, enthusiasm and inspiration to create their own hand-crafted curriculum.
Keep checking back for more Waldorf Grade Five products. I’m hard at work on a more complete curriculum guide that I hope teachers and homeschoolers will find useful.
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