DAILY WONDER
  • Home
    • About Us
    • 50 Reasons
    • Waldorf Connection
    • Gallery
    • FAQ
    • Testimonials
    • Press
    • Newsletters
    • Affiliate Program
  • PURCHASE
  • CURRICULUM
    • Curriculum Info
    • Samples
    • Support
    • Waldorf Teachers
    • Supplies & Printing
  • CONTACT
  • Blog

Opening & Closing Verses

5/15/2025

0 Comments

 
Picture

Waldorf Opening & Closing Verses

The first step of the Daily Wonder morning lesson incorporates verses, poetry, songs and intentional movement. It is recommended that you begin the day standing with your child and allow each component to flow together, much like a circle time would.
 
The opening verse acknowledges that the morning lesson is officially beginning. Instead of simply calling your kids to the learning space to begin the day, we build the experience of reverence by using verses, poetry, and songs to signal the start of your lessons. Singing each day enhances connection and offers a lovely balance to individual recitation. By including poems connected to the seasons, your child becomes connected to the cycle of nature through their feelings. Poems and songs connected to the unit theme enliven the topic of study and support our artistically integrated method. Encourage your child to memorize the poems. Recitation builds memory, vocabulary, the strength of individuality, and opportunities to practice oral language features such as intonation, pace, and volume. The goal is that by the end of the unit, your child will share the poem by heart. 
 
The experience of a Daily Wonder lesson is creative and reverent. Just as your opening verse creates a special moment to acknowledge that the morning lesson is beginning, your closing verse marks the closing of this part of the homeschool day. Participating in a closing verse, poem, or song is a meaningful and beautiful way to honour all the work and learning that has just taken place.
All Daily Wonder units include suggested opening and closing verses, unit-themed songs, poetry and intentional movement. As always, Daily Wonder encourages you to teach the child in front of you and change anything that doesn't suit your child's frame of reference. Below are some opening and closing verses to get you started or to use in place of what's suggested.

Read More
0 Comments

Kindness Quilt Project

11/13/2024

0 Comments

 
Picture

Kindness Quilt Project

Each Daily Wonder unit comes complete with three weeks of guided daily curriculum and a 4th week called a Flex Week. Parents can rest assured that the curriculum is covered as planned for each unit during the first three weeks. If parents choose to continue the daily routine with Flex Week, they will continue to cover the curriculum and expand on that with design thinking as well.  
​

The Flex Week project for the Grade 2, Month 7, The Wonder of Reading unit is the completion of a Kindness Quilt.  The theme of kindness runs through the stories told during this unit. Stories of kindness are a perfect backdrop for the level of reflection appropriate for the 7 or 8-year-old. It is more developmentally appropriate for a child this age to feel how they feel rather than to think about how they feel. This means it is easier for them to read about kindness and feel how that care feels than for them to bring this into their thinking for analysis. 

Read More
0 Comments

Mealtime Blessings

8/15/2024

0 Comments

 
Picture

Waldorf Meal Blessings

Waldorf meal blessings are a beautiful tradition that can help establish a sense of gratitude, mindfulness, rhythm, and ritual during meal times. In Waldorf education, meal blessings are an opportunity to foster a deep sense of thankfulness for food and community. These blessings often involve a simple verse or prayer that expresses gratitude for the food and the efforts of those who prepared it. Modelling gratitude is such a gift we can give our children, and mealtime blessings are a great way to establish the family rhythm and ritual together.

​Here are three of our favourite mealtime blessings that we used at our Waldorf school.  ​

Read More
0 Comments

Fall Songs

10/15/2023

1 Comment

 
Picture

Fall Songs for Young Children

Seasonal songs serve as a musical reflection of the ever-shifting environment, celebrating the beauty and significance of each season and a deeper appreciation for the cyclical nature of life. This approach fosters a sense of connection to the natural world and helps children develop a heightened awareness of time's passage, instilling a sense of harmony and balance with the world around them.

The following are some fun fall songs to incorporate into your daily rhythm this season.

Read More
1 Comment

Homeschool Kindergarten Rhythm

2/1/2023

0 Comments

 
Pssst! We now have Kindergarten curriculum which you can find HERE AND we have a mini-course: Learn to Teach Finger Knitting which you can find HERE.

The essential elements of a Waldorf Kindergarten are not the specific activities (baking, painting, etc.) but should reflect the underlying philosophy of Waldorf-inspired kindergarten: It's play-based, non-academic, and nature-inspired. 

The kindergarten-aged child (and even the 3-4-year-old) learn through imitation, open-ended creative play, movement, music, stories, artistic activities and purposeful work. 

Your role as the parent is to form the daily and weekly rhythm, create lots of opportunity to learn and play, and build your relationship with your child.

Read More
0 Comments

The Wonder of Bedtime Songs & Verses

1/24/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture
Children thrive in a predictable rhythm and routine. We see their anxiety lessen when they know what to expect. When meals and bedtime happen regularly , it anchors their day. Once established, it is helpful to find other aspects of the day that you can commit to making happen regularly. Homeschool is, of course, a source of rhythm for your child. Although these days, school can be somewhat unpredictable as well, giving us even more reasons to fill moments in your child’s day with heartfelt connection and a sense of calm.​

Read More
0 Comments

Miriam's Cup

3/27/2021

0 Comments

 
Passover (Pesach in Hebrew) is a Jewish holiday that celebrates the Hebrews' liberation from slavery by the great prophet Moses. Moses would not have survived to free his people, had it not been for the cleverness of his sister Miriam. She set him in a basket on the river Nile, and watched over him until the Pharaoh's daughter found him and took him home to be her own son. 

In this way, Moses survived the dangerous times in Egypt, and grew up with a deep compassion for the Jewish people. In his adult years, he fulfilled his destiny to guide the Jewish people out of slavery in Egypt, to form a covenant with God through the Ten Commandments. 

Miriam, perhaps the only woman in the bible, who is not referred to as someone's mother or daughter, has, in more recent times, taken a place of honour at the Passover Seder. As Jewish celebrations and rituals become modernized to fit our new levels of awareness, we turn to the women of the Bible stories, choosing to elevate them to places of importance. In modern Jewish rituals, when the Seder, or religious dinner ritual takes place, many families choose to include Miriam as one of the sacred guests. A cup is filled with water, in her honour, and songs and stories are shared to celebrate her strengths. 

What a wonderful time we live in, where we can honour the importance of the feminine, and include it in a ritual that was formed thousands of years ago. 

Ways to Celebrate

Here are some ways you can learn more about Miriam and celebrate her as well.

Sing Miriam's Song
A beautiful song depicting the spirit of women now and in ancient days.  Here are the lyrics so you can sing along:​

Read More
0 Comments

    Tips & tools to support your homeschool program.

    RSS Feed

    Blog

    Explore schedules, rhythms & routines, songs, music, festivals, free play, meals, projects & more to support your homeschooling program.

    Categories

    All
    About Daily Wonder
    Activities
    Anthroposophy
    Birthdays
    Calendar Of The Soul
    Crafts
    Curriculum
    Cursive Writing
    Fall
    Festivals
    Handwork
    Holidays & Celebrations
    Instructional Videos
    Kindergarten
    Meditation
    Multiple Children
    Nurtured Heart
    Parent Education
    Pentatonic Flute
    Rhythm & Routine
    Social Emotional Learning
    Songs & Verses
    Spring
    Summer
    Tutorials
    Waldorf Supplies
    Winter
    Writing Tutorials

    Archives

    May 2025
    April 2025
    March 2025
    February 2025
    January 2025
    December 2024
    November 2024
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    June 2024
    January 2024
    November 2023
    October 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    March 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    May 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020

    RSS Feed

You might be wondering...

Purchase
Supplies
Courses
About
FAQ
Contact
​Home

​Terms & Conditions
PURCHASE

Visit us on Teachers Pay Teachers

© COPYRIGHT 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Serving your worldwide educational needs from Comox Valley, BC, Canada.
  • Home
    • About Us
    • 50 Reasons
    • Waldorf Connection
    • Gallery
    • FAQ
    • Testimonials
    • Press
    • Newsletters
    • Affiliate Program
  • PURCHASE
  • CURRICULUM
    • Curriculum Info
    • Samples
    • Support
    • Waldorf Teachers
    • Supplies & Printing
  • CONTACT
  • Blog