As we continue our journey of Waldorf Homeschooling our 2 children we not only find some awesome resources which we'd like to share with you, but we also end up having to put our own together. I'll be adding links and downloadable files as we progress. And if there are any that you find that you think are worth adding then please share them. There are a lot of Waldorf families, like ours, that have to homeschool on a shoestring budget, so the more we share with each other the easier our journey becomes.

I'm going to put a seperate page up for each Grade, and then break that down into the various lesson blocks. This is for Grade 4!

You cannot do this lesson block justice until you have read Dr Steiners lectures called Mission of the Folk Souls. It is imperative to understand the reason behind the teaching.

We use Melisa Nielsen's A Journey Through Waldorf Homeschooling for Grade 4 to teach Norse Mythology. This comes with a complete book of all the relevant Norse Myths. They are not watered down versions either.According to Steiners teaching these have to be a complete set not a kiddies sweet and sunny book with pretty pictures. You can purchase her Grade 4 curriculum at A Little Garden Flower. Just click on Grade 4 on the left hand side of her website and you can see the book I mentioned. Please bear in mind that if you buy this book there is no need to purchase a second book on Norse Mythology. You'll just need 1 or 2 free downloads, to get you aquainted with the norse myths. Which you can download here for free. ;o)

Please be aware that this is not for your child. It is for you to acqauint yourself with the start of Norse Mythology. You then take this and put it into a Waldorf lesson for your child. Everything is there just make it exciting and draw a pic or 2 on the chalkboard! Click on the link below to dowload it.

The Prose Edda is a text on Old Norse Poetics, written about 1200 by the Icelandic poet and politican Snorri Sturlson.The Prose Edda is the first written account, to the best of my knowledge, of the norse myths. I've used it mainly to gather poems for the chalkboard before I teach the next story. An example of this would be...

This is a purely fun site, with many poems written for children about the various norse myths and their characters. I've found a good few, which we can use, as an introduction to the myth or describe an awesome character like Thor.