This is the first time we followed our Live Education Waldorf curriculum for mineralogy to completion.
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We haven’t done this in the past, in part because I found the curriculum too challenging to wrap my head around or felt there wasn’t relatable content to present.
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Some of the lessons come complete with enough information to present the lesson, while others came with excepts from essays or poems.
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I found it challenging to progress with the curriculum in the past and often dispensed with it within the first lesson opting to use our books and resources as read alouds instead.
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The Live Education curriculum provides information for you, as the teacher, to Understand the content, to provide topics for research and provides lesson activities or copywork.
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In the past, I haven’t had enough time to research lessons prior to presenting them as I was homeschooling multiple children or didn’t feel inclined, but this time around, with my last child, I decided to give this curriculum another chance.
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I am so glad I did! It did take far longer to do the research and prepare for these lessons, but our lessons ended up being far more dynamic and engaging, and I loved it so much more.
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Prior to presenting the lessons, I would do research on the topic that was suggested in the curriculum. I wrote down my notes and research as a narration and included a drawing. Sometimes the drawings were copied from the curriculum when provided and other times, I searched online for inspiration for the illustrations.
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Occasionally I would include additional lessons or topics.
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Upon presenting the lesson, my daughter would copy the illustrations into her main lesson book and write original narrations.
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We did far fewer hands-on activities & field trips for this main lesson block than in the past.
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However, our individual lessons were more interactive and orally dynamic.
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We had more discussions, and I felt far more prepared to deliver lessons.
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22 май 2024
