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How to Do Dragon Breathing
During this calm breathing exercise, children can feel their own "fiery breath" on the back of their hand.
- Place your hand just in front of your mouth.
- Take a big breath in through your nose.
- Hold for four seconds.
- Breathe out through your mouth slowly and make a ...
The Words: Rilla and Billa
A fingerplay by Becca Lane
Rilla and Billa found two pumpkins
Up on a hill so high.
They wanted to take them home
And carve them by and by.
But how, they wondered,
Would they get two pumpkins
From up on a hill so high
All the way down to their home
To carve them by a...
Nature-based Poem for Wintertime: Jack Frost
Jack Frost by Cecily E. Pike
Look out! Look out!
Jack Frost is about.
He’ll climb a tree
So nimble is he
His sugary powder he’ll shake
To windows he’ll creep
And while you’re asleep
Such magical pictures he’ll make.
You can hear this song and a...
Do you wish you knew seasonal songs to sing with your preschooler or kindergartener? I imagined singing all these lovely songs with my children. Then, my children were born, and I had no idea what songs to sing or where to find them. Fast forward several years and a few Waldorf-inspired trainings, a...
Fingerplays and finger games are fun to add to life at home with your preschool or kindergarten child. You can add these to circle time, transitions, waiting times, and more! They are fun to incorporate, no matter how you do so.
In this video clip, you’ll learn the hand motions that go with this si...
Welcome Spring
Spring is coming, spring is coming.
Birdies build your nest.
Weave together straw and feather,
doing each your best.
Friends, spring is just around the corner. Can you feel it?
In celebration of warmer weather, we at Little Round Schoolhouse wanted to share a FREE ...
This video shares with you the process I follow to plan and create circle times for my early childhood Waldorf classroom. I will walk you through the steps I take to create, plan, and practice my circle times. It is my hope that you can follow these same steps and create a circle time for your class...
Circle time is present in every Waldorf class I have visited and seems foundational to the educational model. But what is circle time and why do we do it?
In this video, I will paint a picture of what circle time looked like in my early childhood classroom and then share the benefits of circle tim...
