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A flick through of my fourth grader’s first #bravewriter #bravewriterarrow ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’, with @juliebravewriter ❤️ We decided to include everything in the one lesson book including the copywork passages, spelling and grammar notes, as well as their artwork. We didn’t get to French-style dictation this Arrow but will definitely try it next time. We did do a “free write” inspired by one of the questions at the end of the Arrow (I didn’t include a photo of this), which was a great insight into a few spelling and punctuation areas we need to focus on (I didn’t correct their free write work but let it stand as is ). We are really looking forward to beginning our next Arrow, next week.

Term 1, Week 7 ~ Grade 4 ~ Our weekly Form Drawing lesson always brings out the groans in my boys but once they get into it they find a peaceful, meditative rhythm and turn out some beautiful work. My left handed Grade 4 boy used to really struggle with Form Drawing and handwriting in general, but with patience, practise, encouragement and lots of work integrating left and right brain and working on core strength, he has really blossomed. He even almost enjoys it now! I’ve found Angela Lord’s ‘Creative Form Drawing’ books (Vol.1 and vol. 2) to be an amazing resource for Form Drawing through the grades.

My Third Grader starting a project he has wanted to do for some time now - weaving a circular rug with his huge ball of lucet fork knitting, which he first began making in his Kindergarten year. We found this beautiful old cane hoop at our local tip shop and cut up an old T-shirt of daddy’s into strips to make the warp, the finger knitting strand becoming the weft. He has worked tirelessly on this project, using up his big ball of finger knitting already (a few days after I took this photo), so i think this will end up being a project we finish over winter/spring. I’m already dreaming of cosy family evenings snuggled up by the wood fire while they listen to stories, sip cocoa and knit ☺️❤️ I’m loving the shift to cooler autumnal evenings already ❤️

Term 1, Week 6 ~ Grade 4: Maths fractions block ~ Finishing up our first fractions main lesson block with equivalent fractions and a bit of musical maths

Term 1, Week 8 ~ Vertices, diagonals and beauty in geometric patterns. Form drawing and art meet @rightstartmath today ✨

A simple, lovely craft, easy enough even for young children to join in, is to weave a seasonal tree using wool roving. It makes a beautiful wall hanging. I used wool roving from @dragonflytoys in beautiful autumn tones (it is autumn here in Tasmania), but we’ve made a spring tree weaving in the past also. Most suppliers will sell packets of wool roving already bundled in a seasonal palette. To make the frame, we twisted birch branches into a teardrop shape. You could wire it together, but my 10yo just wove it until the ends held together on their own. Then we tied pieces of yarn onto the rounded end ~ I used 12 pieces of dark brown yarn, the ends long enough to easily tie together at the bottom of the frame. This forms the warp. The number you use is totally up to you and they don’t need to be spaced too closely together (you can just see my yarn pieces tied to the top of my frame in the photo). Gather, knot, and tie the ends of the yarn to the pointed “bottom” end of the frame. This where the trunk will be formed. To make the trunk, start at the bottom knot and wind thin strips of brown wool roving around the yarn pieces gathered together, branching off in places to form the branches. I find my branches are usually 3 or 4 strings thick. About half way up you can start loosely weaving the “leaves”, using thin strips of seasonal colours. This part is easy for even younger children to help with. And that’s it! I love the look of them so much that I think I’ll attempt a winter one later in the year ☺️☃️

My 10 yo boy was so excited to warp up this gorgeous new #gluckskafer wooden lap loom . He is planning an autumn themed weaving with this beautiful yarn and wool roving, also from @dragonflytoys ❤️ I had planned to start a 4th grade crochet project with him by now but he is so passionate about weaving at the moment, I’m letting him run with that . I love seeing both boys whip out their weaving projects in their spare time If you have a hobby you’re passionate about, you never have time for boredom! ☺️

I have had so many questions about our art supplies lately, I thought I’d repost this post I made last year about the supplies we use. The only recent addition to this is that my Fourth Grader received a tin of lovely Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils (72) for Christmas and a beautiful hand crafted wooden pencil holder. ** repost** I’ve had a lot of questions lately about the Waldorf homeschool supplies we use, specifically what brands they are and where people can purchase them from. I have sourced all of our supplies either locally from @lyrebirdsteinerinspired, a wonderful Waldorf store in our little town, or online from (Australia) @honeybeetoys and @mercuriusaustralia. If you are purchasing homeschool supplies in person or online, definitely mention you are home-educating as all of the Waldorf stores are very supportive of Steiner homeschoolers ❤️ • Most of the supplies we use are standard in Waldorf school: The modelling beeswax, liquid watercolour paints and the lower row of block crayons are all Stockmar brand. We use the standard primary Stockmar 6 pack of liquid watercolours (carmine red, vermillion, golden yellow, lemon yellow, ultramarine, and prussian blue) • The upper row of crayons are @filanacrayons, the lower Stockmar beeswax • ✏️ We use Superferby Lyra triangular pencils (which I prefer over Stockmar Giants, though both are wonderful) • The main lesson books and the gorgeous wooden paint pot holders and glass jars are a available from most Waldorf supply store (including online ones such as @bellalunatoys in the US and @tanglewoodtoys in NZ ), as are the watercolour brushes we use. • The ink pen brand is Greenfields and we purchased a reusable cartridge for our ink pen to reduce waste We bought ours locally @lyrebirdsteinerinspired but I believe @spiralgarden also stock these too • Our wooden painting boards and the crayon holder are both homemade. The painting boards we made from marine grade ply. We store our beeswax in a wooden tea box • While our crayon holder is homemade, @folkwoodstudio makes them in Australia and @treasuresfromjennifer in the US ❤️ I hope that is useful to others ❤️

A mirrored form drawing exercise today using pressed and halved autumn leaves It’s trickier than it looks!