Comments on: Kindergarten with Your Three to Six Year Old http://www.waldorfbooks.com/item_1003.htm Bob and Nancy's Bookshop Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:27:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Kaye Lathe http://www.waldorfbooks.com/item_1003.htm/comment-page-1#comment-59 Kaye Lathe Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:57:54 +0000 http://www.waldorfbooks.com/?p=1003#comment-59 Consider this Kindergarten curriculum book to be your introduction to homeschooling in the Waldorf tradition. What I really loved about this is that such a spread of ages are contained within, which makes it compatible if you have several different aged small children. For my situation though (two small children exactly the same age), I could consider it "homeschool-lite". If you are on the fence about whether to homeschool, but your kids are so young you don't have to make a commitment anywhere yet, you can get started with a gentle, but beneficial homeschooling program right away. This will allow you to build confidence while setting a pattern that will continue through your children's educational journey. Simmons doesn't take a hard-line approach about how to home-school, and emphasizes that this should be easily incorporated into your day. Simmon's work contains a useful selection of stories and poems with connections to developing the story concepts throughout the week, ideas about art, and guidelines for what your child should be able to understand and participate in as well as some sample schedules for how to structure your time together. A dear friend of mine has been using this curriculum with two of her three children, and has found it smooth and enjoyable, so much so that she even started the curriculum the week she delivered a new baby, and still expressed pleasure in homeschooling! Consider this Kindergarten curriculum book to be your introduction to homeschooling in the Waldorf tradition. What I really loved about this is that such a spread of ages are contained within, which makes it compatible if you have several different aged small children. For my situation though (two small children exactly the same age), I could consider it “homeschool-lite”. If you are on the fence about whether to homeschool, but your kids are so young you don’t have to make a commitment anywhere yet, you can get started with a gentle, but beneficial homeschooling program right away. This will allow you to build confidence while setting a pattern that will continue through your children’s educational journey. Simmons doesn’t take a hard-line approach about how to home-school, and emphasizes that this should be easily incorporated into your day. Simmon’s work contains a useful selection of stories and poems with connections to developing the story concepts throughout the week, ideas about art, and guidelines for what your child should be able to understand and participate in as well as some sample schedules for how to structure your time together.

A dear friend of mine has been using this curriculum with two of her three children, and has found it smooth and enjoyable, so much so that she even started the curriculum the week she delivered a new baby, and still expressed pleasure in homeschooling!

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