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The following publications - all written by Donna Simmons - can be purchased here using PayPal's secure online payment service. Alternatively, you can mail a check/money order in $US to us at the address at the bottom of this page. There is extensive information (including sample pages) for most of our publications. If you have any further questions please contact us at sales@christopherushomeschool.org or (608) 637-8031. Shipping rates are at the bottom of this page (as well as our returns policy).
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For help choosing books, see our
Publications Age Guide See here for information about the planned Christopherus Curriculum |
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NEW! Christopherus Third Grade Curriculum Old Testament Stories: Manual and Storybook This package consists of two parts: a bound 5½" x 8½" storybook, Stories from the Books of Moses, and a teaching manual consisting of 8½" x 11" sheets in a clear plastic folder. The manual contains 24 pages of text (including a short play, Joseph and His Brothers) plus full-page pictures, including 10 full-color reproductions of watercolor paintings. $35.00 |
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Second Grade Curriculum A
full year of main lesson, practice lesson and Circle Time math for
second grade. Includes painting lessons and full color pictures.
More information and excerpts here. |
Animal Legends
Everything you need to put together an animal legends main lesson.
Includes full color pictures. More
information and excerpts here. |
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Living Language: A comprehensive and
detailed curriculum for Grades 1 - 5. In-depth teaching advice, lesson
plans and strategies for children of differing abilities in writing,
reading, grammar, handwriting and spelling. |
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The Christopherus
The essential guide to
Waldorf-inspired homeschooling! |
From Nature Stories to Natural
Science: A
practical guide to the Waldorf approach to science for home educators:
covers K through 12th grade |
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Get a discount on either of these books when you purchase our First Grade Syllabus - see here for details |
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Christopherus High School Notes: Comedy and Tragedy Notes with information, resources, ideas and plans to help put together a block on Comedy and Tragedy (taught in Waldorf schools in the 9th grade). More about High School Notes and content list here. 23 pages, stapled - $10 |
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First Grade Syllabus A complete
Waldorf-inspired First Grade curriculum See here for more details, sample pages and information about discounts on selected Christopherus publications when purchased together with this Syllabus. |
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Joyful Movement
A treasure trove of ideas
and activities, songs and movement games Click here for more details and to view sample pages. |
Kindergarten
Practical
inspiration for kindergarten at home.
Click here for more details and to view sample pages. |
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Drawing A basic guide to Waldorf methods of drawing – includes 7 full color pages. 37 pages, $22 Click here for more details and to view sample pages. |
Form Drawing
Fully-illustrated step-by-step instructions for beginning form drawing. 41 pages, $22 |
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Saints and Heroes All you need to put together a Saints and Heroes Main Lesson block 50 pages, $22 Click here for more details and to view sample pages. |
Medieval History Create a Medieval History main lesson for your 6th or 7th grade student 36 pages, $17 Click here for more details and to view sample pages. |
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Roman History Everything you need to put together a study of Roman history for students age 12 and up. Includes 6 full-page illustrations. 43 pages, $17 |
Botany Material for you to use to put together a botany block or an extended study of this subject. Includes 6 full-page illustrations (5 color). 38 pages, $17 |
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Bremen Town Musicians A short play adapted from the Grimms fairy tale with additional notes on the Waldorf approach to drama. 19 pages, $7.00 |
The Magic of Patience: A Jataka Tale A very short play with four parts - for elementary school-age children. With an introduction to the pedagogical use of the four temperaments. 12 pages, $5.50 |
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The Selfish Giant A short play adapted by Donna
Simmons from the wonderful short story by Oscar Wilde with notes on how to
create the right mood for such a play and music suggestions. |
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| Please see here for more information about Donna's series of hour-long talks available for purchase and download to your computer as MP3 files. | |||
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The Pre-K Child at Home Topics covered: the child's process of incarnation into the body; protecting the senses; the role of the mother; attachment parenting and Waldorf; early learning; family rhythms; older siblings; socialization. |
Price: $14
Running Time: 61 minutes |
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Kindergarten at Home Topics covered: a picture of the Waldorf kindergarten and what we can do at home; imitation, activity and rhythm; transitions and discipline; mood and reverence; creative play; the 6 year old kindergartener. |
Price: $14
Running Time: 60 minutes |
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First Grade Getting ready for First Grade? Want to know what lies ahead for your younger child? This is an hour long talk on important and often overlooked aspects of First Grade such as mood; the relationship between painting and modeling; the recorder; the need to get the child into his body; and preparing for later academic excellence with subjects such as knitting and form drawing. Also discussion on first grade language arts and math. |
Price: $14
Running Time: 59 minutes |
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Second Grade A detailed overview of the curriculum for Second Grade - language arts, math, science, handwork, movement and more - and how to work with this at home. Also, a general picture of what the 8 year old child is like and considerations for parenting. |
Price: $14 Running Time: 60 minutes |
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Third Grade The Nine Year Change and how this stage of development is met by the Waldorf curriculum. Building, farming, math, music, movement and more! How parenting changes during this year. |
Price: $14 Running Time: 60 minutes |
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Fourth Grade A new degree of independence and working together; ways of parenting the 10 year old; getting more involved in your community including taking classes; Norse myths, math, local geography, Man and Animal, music, form drawing, painting and movement. |
Price: $14 Running Time: 60 minutes |
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Fifth Grade The harmony and balance expressed by the fifth grade curriculum; viewing geometry, Greek mythology and history, and botany as flowing out of each other; geography; math; language arts; and the vast Ancient Mythologies block. Working with themes instead of blocks. |
Price: $14 Running Time: 61 minutes |
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Sixth Grade Parenting and teaching the 12 year-old child. Working with the Waldorf curriculum at home: Roman history, practical math, language arts, art and science. |
Price: $14 Running Time: 61 minutes |
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Seventh/Eighth Grade Though the essentials of these two grades are quite different, there is a lot of overlap and possibility for flexibility between them. Donna discusses various strategies and goals for these grades. |
Price: $14 Running Time: 60 minutes |
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Waldorf High School at Home Donna shares her experience teaching in a Waldorf-inspired high school and helps parents think through how they can homeschool high school. |
Price: $14 Running Time: 56 minutes |
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The Changing Face of
Discipline Self-development and the clarity of the parents as the basis for discipline; authority as authenticity; using the young child's powers of imitation and need for activity to model and correct behavior; chores, charts, rewards, time out and the changing need for responsibility as the child heads toward 9. |
Price: $14 Running Time: 60 minutes |
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Talking Pictorially and Living Actively with your Young Child Waldorf says not to be intellectual with young children - so how do we do this? Examples of pictorial images and active transforming of everyday situations with young children that work with them at their developmental stage, not ours! |
Price: $14 Running Time: 60 minutes |
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Waldorf Co-ops
Why Waldorf? What do you want to bring from Waldorf education to your group? Getting clear about this and working with the imponderables of Waldorf - rhythm, mood and gesture. Role of the adults; a typical day; venue; choosing activities. Also, a short discussion on things to think about when considering starting a Waldorf school. |
Price: $14 Running Time: 58 minutes |
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Unschooling and Waldorf An in-depth discussion on how unschooling and Waldorf views on the child and learning differ; implications for how we parent and teach our children at home. This talk complements the Discipline talk particularly well. |
Price: $14 Running Time: 61 minutes |
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The Importance of Sleep Tips, ideas and advice on how to get your child to go to sleep easily at and early hour (whether you have a family bed or not) and why this is so vital for her health and wellbeing. For those with babies as well as those with older children who might have sleep issues. |
Price: $14 Running Time: 58 minutes |
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Why Waldorf? Why Homeschool? For anyone new to Waldorf or new to homeschooling or who needs a pep talk. Also suitable for in-laws, grandparents, relatives, therapists and friends who need more information about the choices your family has made. |
Price: $14 Running Time: 60 minutes |
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Children and Manners: Coming into the Social Realm How do we help our children be wonderful to be around in the home and out? This talk addresses societal expectations; our own realistic expectations; the needs of children; and practical advice for babyhood into the teen years. |
Price: $14 Running Time: 59 minutes |
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Play Why it is so important; play as a holistic experience; development of language; working with right and wrong via gun and sword play; play in groups; adults and play. |
Price: $14 Running Time: 51 minutes |
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Transitioning to Waldorf 1 Twelve points to help gently bring elements of Waldorf into your family life and home - including rhythm; less commitment outside the house; nurturing the senses; being child-inclusive and not child-centered; self-development as a parent and more. |
Price: $14 Running Time: 60 minutes |
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Waldorf as Therapeutic Education At essence, Waldorf is a form of truly therapeutic education, valuing all aspects of the child - spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical. In the free download, Donna talks about how Waldorf can, in the home, help nurture and support our children, especially those with challenges such as autism-spectrum, OCD, SI, attachment disorders and ADHD/ADD. |
Price: FREE Running Time: 67minutes |
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Customers who wish to mail their order to us should send a check or money order in $US made out to Christopherus Homeschool Resources to the following address:
Wisconsin residents should add 5.5% sales tax to the cost of their books. |
Shipping and Handling charges:
Please note: Customers in Canada and Mexico pay US rates. However, you may have customs charges to pay on your end. |
Returns policy:
if you receive your books and decide that one or more of them was a mistaken
purchase, please contact us within 7 days to arrange to return your unwanted
purchase. Obviously, any book will need to be returned in the
condition in which you received it and we will fully refund the cost of the book
but not the shipping and handling charge. We regret that we are unable to accept
returns from customers outside of North America.