Description
This is the curriculum content that Waldorf Education is known for! The numbers and their qualities 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 numbers in an imaginative, inspiring way, using classic fairy tales and an umbrella story. 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 in the block (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 November block, which is when it is typically taught 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!
All of this material is delivered through a DIGITAL FILE that you will download after purchasing. The PayPal Express payment option will automatically lead you through the download process. You will also receive a download link in your email box after the purchase is completed.
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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!
Kez –
Is this suitable for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere? Or are the poems, verses etc North American/euro centric?
meredith –
Thanks for asking. The circle material is mostly seasonal (I taught the block in late-October-November so there’s Halloween and Martinmas content.) But there are activities that have nothing to do with the season, as well. Clapping games, movement activities, etc. that can work any time of year. The circle material is just one small component of the entire guide, though.
Blaire –
This looks lovely, thank you for allowing me to purchase this separately from history & science!! Is this just introducing numbers or does this also include the Number Gnomes & adding, subtracting, multiplication & division? Like is it just a block for the first part of the year or a full year’s math class?
meredith –
This guide is just for the first math block of the year — the quality of numbers. It does not introduce the processes (that’s usually in the 2nd math block.) I haven’t put together my materials for the entire first-grade year yet, but I hope to make it happen at some point!
Blaire –
Thank you, I will purchase this block soon. I look forward to the 2nd block!! Do you by chance think it would be ready by Jan 2022?
Leah –
Question, I read ypur blog post on king maximo and the number knights, does this guide include that book, or would it be suitable to use in place of buying that?book.