Ms. Cusick combines her experiences together with those of Waldorf school teachers and schools, as well as anthroposophic doctors and psychiatrists. Although each Waldorf school teacher and school is different from every other in numerous ways, this guide offers an impressionistic collage that provides food for thought for all parents of existing and prospective Waldorf students.
Contents include:
The Child is Born Hereditary/Genetic Stream and the Self; Embryonic Sheaths and Threefold Nature of the Child
The First Three Years Growing Down; Walking, Talking, Thinking
The Temperaments Fourfold Bodily Nature; The Developmental Sequence of Juvenile Temperaments
Fantasy and Fact in Early Childhood Circle of the Senses; Mechanical Fantasy and Language; Nursery School
How: Methods and the Three R's Writing Before Reading; Arithmetic; Main Lesson; The Spoken Word; Arts and Crafts
The Magic Years: First to Third Grade Fairy Tale Meaning and Language; Sequence of the Curriculum
Grades Four to Seven Animal Study; History; Plants; The Twelfth Year and the Fall into the Point; Acoustics; Color
Puberty: Birth of the Self Seventh- and Eighth-Grade Polarities; Adolescence; High School
