Daily Rhythm
Mom – Inner Work: Bible Study
Breakfast & Bible Memory
Storytelling While Cleaning
Outdoor Work & Play
Lunch & Bible Memory
Daily Focus
Family time
Yoga
Bath
Bible Story, Prayer & Rose Bed
Morning Song
This is the Day by Pace by Joseph W. Ii.
This is the day, this is the day.
That the Lord has made, that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice, we will rejoice,
And be glad in it, and be glad in it.
This is the day that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice and be glad in it.
This is the day, this is the day
That the Lord has made
Memory Verse
Said at all meal times before prayer – until memorized
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Psalm 8
Daily Cleaning
Clean up, Clean up
Everybody, everywhere
Clean up, Clean up
Everybody do your share
When we clean up
We have some space
For prancing and playing all day
http://themysticalkingdom.blogspot.com/2009/04/tidying-up-verses.html
Story telling while Cleaning:
September:
Black Sambo
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=lmr&book=k1rainbow&story=sambo
October:
Little Red Hen
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18735/18735-h/1
November:
Little Red Riding Hood
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2591/2591-h/2591-h.htm#link2H_4_0023
December:
Gingerbread Man
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25877/25877-h/25877-h.htm
January:
Stone Soup
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type1548.html#hunter
February:
The Fairy
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29021/29021-h/29021-h.htm#The_Fairy
March:
Elves and the shoemaker
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2591/2591-h/2591-h.htm#link2H_4_0041
April:
Princess and the Pea
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27200/27200-h/27200-h.htm#princess
May:
The Musicians of Bremen/ The Bremen Town Musicians https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19734/19734-h/19734
Daily Laundry
Corner to corner
Meet and greet
Fold our cloth so nice and neat!
http://blog.bellalunatoys.com/2014/waldorf-verses-songs-for-children.html
Outdoor Purposeful Work
Seasonal Verses:
Summer:
We are the sunshine fairies
And with our sparks of light
We shimmer and glimmer in the air
Hugging flowers with colors so bright
http://themysticalkingdom.blogspot.com/2010/06/summer-verses-and-circle.html
Fall:
Like a leaf or a feather
In the windy Autumn weather
We twirl a-round and twirl a-round
And all float down to-gether.
https://oranaplaygroup.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/seasonal-songs-windy/
Winter:
Furry bear
If I were a bear,
And a big bear too,
I shouldn’t much care
If it froze or snew:
I shouldn’t much mind
If it snowed or friz-
I’d be all fur-lined
With a coat like his!
A.A. Milne
Spring:
Spring is coming, spring is coming,
birdies build your nests.
Weave together straw and feather,
doing each your best.
Spring is coming spring is coming,
flowers are waking too.
Daisies, lilies, daffodillies,
all are coming through.
Spring is coming, Spring is coming,
all around is fair.
Shiver, quiver, on the river
joy is everywhere!
http://waldorfmama.typepad.com/waldorf_mama/2009/04/spring-is-coming.html
Daily Bible, Prayer & Bed
Read: The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name –
by Sally Lloyd-Jones
http://www.amazon.com/The-Jesus-Storybook-Bible-Whispers/dp/0310708257
White Day (Sunday) Church & Rest Day
Red Day (Monday) – Day Out
Orange Day (Tuesday) – Cooking Day
Bless the food that I now take,
Bless my hands that I may make
Something good to cook or bake.
from A Child’s Seasonal Treasury, page 30 http://themysticalkingdom.blogspot.com/
First we add the flour
then we add the yeast
next we add some warm water
and mix it up like this
Now let’s make a nice round ball
squish and squash like that
knead and knead again
http://themysticalkingdom.blogspot.com/2009/04/special-verses-for-kneading-dough.html
Yellow Day (Wednesday) – Painting Day
Story from Simple Homeschooling:
“One morning, Tippy Brush woke up and looked outside his bedroom window. It was a crisp autumn morning. As he looked outside his window, he saw bright red leaves falling from the maple tree and blowing in the wind, filling the sky with their color. ‘Oh, I want to play with red today!’ he thought.
So Tippy jumped out of bed, but before he went outside, he had a nice foot bath…
[Here I would demonstrate rinsing the bristles clean in the jar of water]
…and dried his feet clean with his towel [the rag]. Then Tippy ran outside and cried, “Good morning, Red! I’ve come to play with you!”
[At this point Tippy (my brush) dips his “toes” (the bristles) in the red paint.]
The red leaves were happy to have a playmate, and Tippy joyfully danced among the falling red leaves, until there were piles of bright red leaves all around.”
Green Day– (Thursday) – Forest Day
Read: Winnie the Pooh & The House at Pooh Corner
Verse: 1 Chronicles 16:33 “Let the trees of the forest sing, let them sing for joy before the LORD”
Song (different stanzas different weeks):
All things bright and beautiful
Refrain:
All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,All things wise and wonderful:
The Lord God made them all.
Each little flow’r that opens,
Each little bird that sings,
He made their glowing colors,
He made their tiny wings.
The purple-headed mountains,
The river running by,
The sunset and the morning
That brightens up the sky.
The cold wind in the winter,
The pleasant summer sun,
The ripe fruits in the garden,
He made them every one.
The tall trees in the greenwood,
The meadows where we play,
The rushes by the water,
To gather every day.
He gave us eyes to see them,
And lips that we might tell
How great is God Almighty,
Who has made all things well.
Cecil F. Alexander
Blue Day (Friday) – Handwork Day
May our fingers be nimble,
And our hearts be glad,
In every task we do.
http://themysticalkingdom.blogspot.com/2009/04/great-collection-of-waldorf-verses-part_7834.html
Purple Day (Saturday) – Extended Family Day