Description
This is the curriculum content that Waldorf Education is known for! The consonants and their sounds come alive through the fairy tales. I tell you — it’s pure magic!
In this guide, you’ll see how to introduce each of the consonants in an imaginative, inspiring way, using classic fairy tales. Imaginative pictures are the key to keeping your students’ thinking lively, and the story recommendations in this guide will help you know the pictures to use to guide them.
Here’s what you’ll find in this guide.
- Day-to-day lesson plans, including stories, new material and suggestions for review activities
- An overview of the curriculum and how it takes shape in a daily lesson
- All of the fairy tales used to introduce the consonants (the complete stories themselves)
- Photographs of student main lesson pages
- A guide to creating enlivening circle activities, with instructions for crafting your own circle exercises
- The specific content of the circle activities I used this block — including specific songs and poems
This guide also includes the circle activities and exercises that I used throughout this late autumn block, which is the typical season for this block in the northern hemisphere. Even if you work through this block at a different time of year, I’m sure you’ll find the poems, songs and activities appropriate to bring at some point. My students just loved them!
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I’m sure you’ll find this guide helpful. It’s just the thing I wished I had when I started first grade!
Blaire –
I’m not sure if you are familiar with Letters A-Z with LMNOP but I have that teacher’s book and I am looking for the next step from that. Is this similar to teaching the letters or is this the next step of transcribing the letters and sounding them out for pre-reading? I just want to make sure I’m not buying a replica of the same thing I already have.
meredith –
Hi there. The content of this block is similar to the letters A-Z book. It does go through the sounds in relation to the stories, but it’s definitely for the first language block of the year. Sounds like it’s not quite what you’re looking for.