Golden Beetle Books

14/08/2020

Thank you for tagging us in your beautiful chalkboard drawing! This would be perfect for both the fifth and High School botany lessons! Beautiful!

11/08/2020

09/08/2020

Of Pine and Palm: A 9th and 10th Grade Math Curriculum is now available: https://earthschooling.info/thebearthinstitute/product/of-pine-and-palm-a-ninth-and-tenth-grade-math-curriculum-discount-digital-pre-edition/

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07/08/2020

Magic Mangrove Seed: A Waldorf Reader is now available again for the first time in two years! https://rebrand.ly/magicmangrove

These stories are intended for classroom or home use and  for children ages 7 to 13 years-old. All original.  Story material includes: Punctuation; Fables; Nature; Geography; Grammar; Health; Seasons; Foreign Language; Fractions; Farming; History; Celebrations & Festivals; The Spirit Of Shibboleth...

27/07/2020

Check out A Steiner Homeschool exclusively at WaldorfBooks.com (click on the Golden Beetle Books square icon)

16/07/2020

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26/06/2020

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26/06/2020

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24/06/2020

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22/06/2020

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10/06/2020

I made three videos about the Golden Beetle Books Book Club that we are soooooo excited about! This is the peek-inside-navigation version. If you want to know more details about the books themselves you can watch the longer video in the middle post. There is also a one-minute introduction video if you want a quick overview.

10/06/2020

I made three videos about the Golden Beetle Books Book Club that we are soooooo excited about! This is the short introduction version. If you want to take a peek inside the book club and how it works you can watch the navigation only version. I also posted a quick one-minute version in the previous post.

10/06/2020

I made three videos about the Golden Beetle Books Book Club that we are soooooo excited about! This is the one-minute version. If you want to take a peek inside the book club and how it works you can watch the navigation only version. If you want to know more details about the books themselves you can watch the longer video in the next post.

01/05/2020

The entire "A Waldorf Homeschool" is now online for Golden Beetle Books Club Members! And most of Hathor the Moon Cow (s*x education) too. I had to take a break to share a bit of one chapter that almost made me cry it was so beautiful:

Hathor the Moon Cow: 17: S*x Education: A Creative Approach to the Rudolf Steiner Impulse:
The S*x Story for Under 7s

Alas, if it has been prematurely awakened, by exposure to nether-region vulgarity and the like, the snake of s*xual consciousness must be put to sleep again, perhaps with a story like the following:

Emeralder
Once upon a time, it could have happened here, there, or anywhere, there lived a beautiful, aqua-green tree snake called Emeralder. Every day she would lie on her favorite branch in Firewheel, her very own rainforest tree. Here she would warm her gleaming, metallic-bright scales and dream of the great star serpent, Sky, who lived on high and at night she sometimes saw him!

Read more here…(you must be logged in as a Lifetime Family Package member, Teacher Support Member, or Golden Beetle Books Club Member to access this page): https://earthschooling.info/thebearthinstitute/hathor-the-moon-cow-17-the-s*x-story-for-under-7s/

25/04/2020

A Steiner Homeschool (Golden Beetle Books, A Spiritual Syllabus by Alan Whitehead) is now completely online and is an amazing read! I encourage everyone to read it to help inspire and strengthen them on their journey. It won't be a 100% fit to anyone but the 80% that I connected with had a profound impact on me as I was reading it. I even found myself texting parts of it to my adult children! (You must be logged in as a Lifetime Package Member, Teacher Support Member, or Golden Beetle Books Club Member to read it): https://earthschooling.info/thebearthinstitute/category/goldenbeetle/the-steiner-homeschool/

21/04/2020

We are excited to announce that the first Golden Beetle Book is now available for purchase! The others should come more quickly now. Each book is a labor of love and takes four different people and countless hours to go through the republishing process (they never existed in any electronic form before) but we are so happy to be able to bring Golden Beetle Books Back to life! https://earthschooling.info/thebearthinstitute/product-category/book-store/golden-beetle-books/

08/04/2020

I haven't posted for a week and you might be wondering why...it's because I've been busy hiring more typists for the books. We now have FOUR people working on typing in these books to get them to you even faster! That being said I am going to upload four chapters right now to the book club page. The more I read through these books the more impressed I am. This is HANDS ON lessons with a teacher with many years of experience homeschooling and in a Waldorf school. The depth of insight into methodology and the lessons provided in the lesson books are amazing!!! You can join the book club at www.GoldenBeetleBookClub.com

23/03/2020

"As an educator, Rudolf Steiner was an ‘integrationist’, an advocate of interweaving and complementing of school subjects. He taught that, through the vehicle of creativity, teachers could bring harmonizing and mutual benefits to subjects as (apparently) disparate math and music, physics and painting, and grammar and games, by a process of synthesis rather than fragmentation. Nowhere is this more vital that in the teaching of math; the study of number in isolation is as currently futile as trying to know the individuality of some long-dead soul by studying their skull." - Alan Whitehead, Of Pine and Palm: Mathematics Class 9 and 10: 1: A Rudolf Steiner Approach: Prologue - Copyright Alan Whitehead and Earthschooling at www.GoldenBeetleBookClub.com

22/03/2020

"Naturally there are different Principles in both content and number for various organizations – or indeed individuals; but an esoterically significant number, in the main gleaned from Rudolf Steiner’s writings and actions, is 28; 7 Principles for each of the four bodies. As such there is a metaphysical mirror of 7-fold soul man, qualified by each of his four incarnational members." - From 'A Steiner Primary School? 5: A Creative Approach to the Rudolph Steiner Educational Impulse: A 28-Principle Mantle of Freedom' by Alan Whitehead, Copyright AW and Earthschooling.

18/03/2020

"A lesson plan is not a prison, rather a firm scaffold which provides a base for true freedom." - Alan Whitehead, A Steiner Homeschool (Copyright Alan Whitehead and Earthschooling.com)

13/03/2020

Oh this is a super fun chapter! A couple excerpts from Choirs of Colours: 5: Primary Painting, Sculpture, Drawing Class 1 to 7: A Rudolf Steiner Approach: Nine Color Clans: Class 3: Wet-on-Wet...

“This is our Color Clan – every one of the nine colors have a different personality, and like your own families, some get on with each other better than others. Over the next three weeks we will find out a great deal about the Who’s Who of the Color Clan.”

“No, not yet, because we are going to discover the Nine Color Families in the Color Clan first – but at the end of three weeks, there will be a few days of painting when you can use any or all of the nine to show what you have learned. Today we are going to paint with the first combination of the nine – two blues and green.” Hemma handed the three bottles of to Ammeh who proceeded to pour them into the children’s jars.."

10/03/2020

This makes me even more excited about the journey we are taking with Alan in the GoldenBeetleBookClub.com - He says, "My wife Susan and I began training in 1965 in Dalcross, making us the first Steiner teachers trained in Australia. I was privileged to be on the founding faculty of the first Steiner high school in Australia when Gleneaon advanced from primary to secondary in 1967. The school’s subsequent success was in large part due to the embracing of the arts in children’s learning...Susan and I ‘retired’ in 1985, feeling both that, on the basis of being the initiators of the first Steiner full-time teacher-education college at Lorien Novalis in 1979, it was time to disseminate this wonderful impulse of creativity to a wider constituency, especially Steiner homeschoolers. So in 1990 we published the first of 56 books under the Golden Beetle Books masthead. This is the largest opus of Steiner Education ever published with comprehensive curriculum details from kindergarten to Class 12." - Alan Whitehead, A Steiner Homeschool (Copyright Earthschooling.com and Alan Whitehead)

10/03/2020

Quote of the day (each day we have a new chapter available from one of the books): "...especially Grimm. In spite of widely held beliefs, Steiner never recommended these (Grimm's Fairytales), rather the living, creative approach; the newly-created tales inspired by the children’s own Spirit of Time, and Soul of Place."- Alan Whitehead, A Steiner Homeschool, Page 2 (Copyright Earthschooling.com and Alan Whitehead)

09/03/2020

What is Craft?
“The K is an ‘earth’ sound; this is where Craft begins, with the earthly material; the R enlivens the substance with air – the vowel AH invites the Spirit to enter; which it does with fire and creativity in the F. Finally, the T, it comes back to earth for a finished product…” - Alan Whitehead, The Golden Path, Page 7 (Copyright Alan Whitehead and Earthschooling.com)

08/03/2020

“We begin with 7-year-olds – school-age children whose bodies require education in the same way as their souls. An education based on an intimate knowledge of child development – a program which is neither indigent of creative ideas, nor over-ambitiuous to produce tomorrow’s sporting hero/ines – a program of games.” - Page 13, Touch the Earth Gently (Copyright Alan Whitehead and Earthschooling.com)

07/03/2020

Our book club is reading the following books right now (we read seven at a time and then move on to the next seven - one chapter is posted each day of the week from a different book):

Monday - A Steiner Homeschool (Directed towards parents)
Tuesday- Hathor the Moon Cow
(S*x education starting at G6: Steiner method)
Wednesday - Choirs of Colours (Methods and principles of wet-on-wet watercolor painting: First grade through high school)
Thursday - Hornes of Hermes
(Music in Waldorf schools: First grade through High School)
Friday - A Steiner Primary School
(Directed towards school teachers and staff)
Saturday - Touch the Earth Gently
(Steiner methods in sport, dance, and movement: All ages discussed - first grade through high school)
Sunday - The Golden Path
(Steiner methods in handwork and craft - all ages discussed - first grade through high school)

07/03/2020

Do you want to be the first one to read the books as they are emerging again? Join the Golden Beetle Book Club HERE: https://earthschooling.info/thebearthinstitute/product/golden-beetle-books-book-club/

By joining the Golden Beetle Books book club you will have immediate access to each chapter of each book as we type them into the system each day. Alan Whitehead’s original books were all hand-made so no digital copies exist. Additionally, his print editions have been out of print for many years. ...

07/03/2020

Welcome to Golden Beetle Books! These books have been out of print for a few years now but they are now coming back - in digital and print form! Read more here: https://earthschooling.info/thebearthinstitute/golden-beetle-books/

07/03/2020