| Child’s Name | Child’s Name | Child’s Name | Child’s Name | |
| Block Name | ||||
| Academic Goal | ||||
| Artistic Goal | ||||
| Spiritual Development Goal | ||||
| Feasts of the Church (insert your own religious practice here) |
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| Important Dates | ||||
| Misc Notes |
This is a sample of the kind of form I fill out at the start of every block for children in the grades (although I did devote one column toward themes I am thinking about for our almost three-year-old). Once you have gone through the steps I outlined here in this post, you can go through this form and start thinking about where your individual child is, and what you are hoping to accomplish in this particular block. Knowing the calendar of your religious practice and other important dates also helps to set the tone around the block. Life is the curriculum!
Here is a sample of this form, filled in briefly for my first block. I filled this form in more extensively for my own planning purposes, but just cut it down so you could get the idea. At the top of the page, I wrote the dates for the three weeks that this planning page will cover. It looks prettier in my pages with borders and different fonts, but you can fix this simple table however you see best to do it.
| Child’s Name | Child’s Name | Child’s Name | Child’s Name | |
| Block Name | Form Drawing 2 weeks with math review/Botany 1 week | Form Drawing through Trickster Tales | toddler fun – harvest of the land and sea, fisherman | |
| Academic Goal | increase spatial awareness to be ready for freehand geometric drawingReview all four math processes, all time tables, fractions and decimals etc Review grammar from fourth grade (one extra lesson a week for three weeks) |
increase spatial awareness and fluidity needed for handwriting through the drawing of X number of formsreview all consonant and short vowel sounds through last year’s written work etc
review all four math processes and two, five, and tens times tables |
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| Artistic Goal | Painting – work from darkness into light(also have handwork, woodworking and music this block) etc |
Painting- orange; allowing form to emerge from colors(also have drawing, modeling,music this block) etc | ||
| Spiritual Development Goal | Celebrate the Assumption of Saint Mary /The Dormition of the Theotokos and plan a Mary Garden for the new houseMemorize Psalm One
Continue in “Polished Cornerstones” |
See column of child one | ||
| Feasts of the Church (insert your own religious practice here) |
see above Holy Days – Saint Bartholomew the Apostle The Beheading of Saint John The Baptist |
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| Important Dates | various notes here about birthdays, homeschooling group days, etc | |||
| Misc Notes | Book of Common Prayer – Prayer “For the Harvest of Lands and Waters” page 828 |
The goals would be put into a much more measurable and “child will” sort of format for a reporting agency, but these are my personal notes to keep me on track for a block only. However, I can easily go back and write notes for any reports due from these sheets. Some goals that I wrote in only one column would be stretched across to sibling columns as well. And, again, my own planning forms have much more detail than this.
The next form I will share is the form I make out per week to cover opening activities, mental math, and spelling and then the last form I will share is essentially my daily planning form. If anyone is planning and would like to share how they plan or forms that they use, please leave your link below.
Many blessings,
Carrie
The Parenting Passageway 
I love this Carrie! Thanks for sharing!
Carrie I just love your blog! I’m new to home school, live in the uk and new to Waldorf! I find your blog so useful and inspiring and look forward to every post! Keep up blogging!!!
Hey Carrie, always good stuff from you. I may revise my forms in light of yours, but here is what I am doing http://sureastheworld.com/planning/ Early days! but I have come to see planning as “in progress” until the lesson is taught!
I thought of this book on my shelf when you mentioned your Mary garden “Mary’s Flowers: Gardens, Legends and Meditations” by Vincenzina Krymow. Wondering if this garden will be in your new house? What a wonderful way to begin a home.
Love to you.
Sheila
Dear Carrie,
I’m from Indonesia. I am still very new to waldorf, despite how Ii love how beautiful the method is, I’m still lacking in understanding how to start up with our parent and children group. I dont have a clue on how to carry out a well balanced curriculum, and i am responsible of introducing waldorf education to our group. Can you please share your thoughts on this.