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In a little cottage on the side of a hill in Southern Tasmania is where the song of this story is sung. Once a place where sheep grazed, this home is now a retreat for pademelons, bandicoots, echidnas, and our family. Originally from the East Coast of New South Wales we traded hectic highways for a calmer, more meaningful pace of life.
I'm Elke and together with my husband Graham - we strive to live conscious, grounded and joyful lives as we share the privilege of walking along a parenting path with our two precious children; Chilli and Marlin.

Continued from last post - morning outdoor lesson nature exploring with leaf and bark rubbings alongside poetry writing
This is one of my favourite books to read to the children as they wake up. Cooler mornings are perfect for snuggling a wee bit longer and reading a story together as the golden break of day slowly filters through the edges of the blinds ☀️ Martín Prechtel teaches his students at Bolad’s Kitchen to ‘sing the sun up’ every day. I wish I could say I do this but, try as I might, I just can’t be up and functioning that early! Unfortunately Mid-Winter is about the closest I come to beating Father Sun out of bed but it’s
Marlin is studying circles in form drawing at the moment so we used this lovely puppet set from Amber @myhearthmagic for our story to accompany lesson time today ✨ Chilli normally joins in with the story and works on her form alongside Marlin’s story drawing. Today’s accompanying story proverb connected beautifully with her form as well and I was even able to ‘upcycle’ the chalkboard drawing I worked on to guide Marlin’s drawing, for Chilli’s afternoon Language Arts lesson (photo 5) We had a great time in her lesson, applying all the example interjections to the story of The Giant
Continued from previous posts - morning outdoor lesson, final work presentation :: including working on the basic skill of cut-and-paste as part of Marlin’s Kindergarten program and Chilli wrote a cinquain poem today as we continue our journey of writing poetry with the ‘R is for Rhyme’ book as a guide, for this ongoing Language Arts project in Oak Meadow Grade Four. She also worked with including both an internal rhyme and an enjambment in her poem, and managed to include two of each in this cinquain!
Cosy nights are coming G surprised us with the first fire of the season when we got home from gym on Tuesday evening It was cool, but I wouldn’t say cold, however it probably would’ve gotten pretty icy in the house overnight without it’s heat. It’s that funny time of the year where there’s a fine balance between keeping warm and overheating through the night. The fire isn’t on continuously yet, but it’ll go on and off over the coming weeks as we need it until in just a very short time it’ll be ticking over constantly for a good
Oak Meadow Kindergarten Science ‘Rainbow Fish’ painting from @_artventure ✨ snippets of this lesson in our current story and then Kindergarten highlight on profile
We really feel extremely blessed to call the sweet little neighbourhood we live in, home The children and I took a mini field trip just down to the end of the road this morning and had an outdoor lesson underneath a canopy of the most gorgeous Autumn leafed trees It can be hard to include Chilli in a lot of the fun activities Marlin enjoys in his Oak Meadow Kindergarten program. Her Grade Five program is full enough all by itself but I do also know she’d dearly love to join in with some of his art and craft activities.
Kindergarten Cooking Alongside the story of ‘The Emperor and the salt’ from the @earthschooling curriculum we made ‘Rainbow patties’ for lunch today
Aren’t these apples from Sandie @purelyfeltcraft just darling! They’re a perfect craft to accompany the ‘Little Round House’ story told as an Easter anticipation story. What are your Easter preparation week traditions? The link in my profile is updated to a post from a few years ago on our blog, which includes this classic Waldorf story, as we tell it during this week following Palm Sunday wishing all our friends and family a blessed and beautiful Holy Week @purelyfeltcraft with @get_repost ・・・ Yesterday I spent the day designing felt apples for a playgroup to make, a simple project with three
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Autumn evening :: Michaelmas dragon fighting, and star gazing ✨
Gettin’ witchy in the kitchen today ‍♀️ ’Merlina and Igor’ are stringing chilli peppers