
Simplify Your Holidays for More Connection
Time to start thinking about the holidays! Do you feel tired and overwhelmed at just the thought of the holiday season? Today, I have some great tips to help you simplify your holidays for more connection with your children and ... Read More

7 Ways to Connect with Children Through Music
I have always loved going to classical and contemporary music concerts with my children. When I learned that the founder of Waldorf education, Rudolf Steiner, said both poetry and music help to bring us together as a community, I was ... Read More

Help for Homeschooling Spelling Skills Practice
Do you have painful memories of spelling lessons as a child? I know I felt like those weekly lists of spelling words were pointless. You may have even found them dreadful. And now it's time to bring spelling to your ... Read More

Do You Take Time for Weekly Reflection?
Do you take time for weekly homeschooling reflection? To reflect on how things went in your homeschool during the past week? And think about what adjustments you want to make the next week? I know for me, in my years ... Read More

Poems for Starting and Ending Your Lessons
The start of a new homeschooling year or season is the perfect time to pick out new poems for starting and ending your lessons. This post is full of ideas just for you! How we begin and end matters. And ... Read More

How to Plan Literacy Skills Practice Sessions
In this fourth interview in our series of four, I had the opportunity to talk again with Janet Langley, one of the authors of The Roadmap to Literacy: A Guide to Teaching Language Arts in Waldorf Grades 1-3. This time, ... Read More

How to Plan Main Lessons That Promote Literacy
In this third interview in our series of four, I had the opportunity to talk again with Janet Langley, one of the authors of The Roadmap to Literacy: A Guide to Teaching Language Arts in Waldorf Grades 1-3. More great ... Read More

2 Homeschoolers Talk About Planning
Have you ever wanted the opportunity to sit down with a homeschooling friend and talk about planning? Well, that's exactly what Robyn of Waldorfish and I (Jean of Waldorf-Inspired Learning) got to do! And we did it on camera. So ... Read More

Developing Literacy with The Roadmap to Literacy Book
In this second interview in a series of four, I had the opportunity to talk again with Janet Langley, one of the authors of The Roadmap to Literacy: A Guide to Teaching Language Arts in Waldorf Grades 1-3. More great ... Read More

Developing Literacy in the Early Elementary Grades
I had the opportunity to talk with Janet Langley, one of the authors of The Roadmap to Literacy: A Guide to Teaching Language Arts in Waldorf Grades 1-3. So many great ideas for developing literacy in the early elementary grades ... Read More