Materials for Language Teaching at Rudolf Steiner (Waldorf) Schools
Item no.: 600005
More than 150 riddles, from very easy ones for the Lower School to more difficult ones, ancient and modern, as well as conundrums, words to construe and an appendix containing an extract from The Merry Book of Riddles (1629).
This book, which is only available in English, was conceived for foreign language teaching in Germany. It thus contains vocabulary lists with a translation into German.
Elisabeth Lebret composed a wealth of pentatonic songs 'for nursery, kindergarten and lower grades' for various occasions: activities, festivals, seasons, birthdays … The collection first appeared in 1971 and Elisabeth's wish that 'this booklet may find its way in the...
While Rhythms, Rhymes, Games and Songs contains quite a number of the more traditional children's songs, the importance of pentatonic songs for at least the first two years of the Lower School can hardly be overestimated. Among other things, they often have a therapeutic effect in that they...
The publishers describe the book in the following terms: "This is a resource book for exploring the festivals - those "feast days" scattered round the year which children love celebrating . . . Even though Christmas comes but once a year, there are at least eighteen other festivals to celebrate!...