Our brave heroes feast with the giants but are challenged to tests to prove themselves. All is not as it seems. Thank you all who have donated to my travel expenses to the World teacher Conference and the cost of this podcast! If you have any spare change under your seat cushions, throw it in my tip jar! https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button…

Thor, Loki, and Thafli meet a helpful giant. Is he too good to be true? Thank you all who have donated to my travel expenses to the World teacher Conference and the cost of this podcast! If you have any spare change under your seat cushions, throw it in my tip jar! https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=JES47LMHPUYK2 A million thanks!…

This is a long story broken up in three parts. In this first part of the story, Thor and Loki gain a new traveling companion. Thank you all who have donated to my travel expenses to the World teacher Conference and the cost of this podcast! If you have any spare change under your seat cushions, throw it in my tip jar! https://www.paypal.com/donate/…

The God Freyr falls madly in love with a Joten's daughter. He can not eat or sleep until he has made her his. What will he do when she refuses his proposal? Thank you to everyone who is supporting me and The Morning Lesson podcast with your donations and Patreon. Right now all donations will help me attend the World Teacher Conference. I am half wa…

What are you willing to sacrifice for what you desire? Odin gave up his eye - Freyr gave his sword. What will Freya give up for what she would have? Thank you to everyone who is supporting me and The Morning Lesson podcast with your donations and Patreon. Right now all donations will help me attend the World Teacher Conference. I am half way to my …

What happens when Thor's hammer goes missing? He and Loki must go to Jotenhiem and face the giants. Thank you to everyone who is supporting me and The Morning Lesson podcast with your donations. Right now all donations will help me attend the World Teacher Conference. I am half way to my goal! https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=JES47LM…

In this episode, God asks Abraham to give up what is most precious to him - his son Isaac. Thank you to everyone who is supporting me and The Morning Lesson podcast with your donations and Patreon. Right now all donations will help me attend the World Teacher Conference. I am half way to my goal! https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=JES4…

Pardon my singing but this gives you some ideas of some fun little songs and activities to enliven the autumn! Thank you for your donation and/or joining my patreon. Your help allows me to continue to create content for more grade levels. My monthly newsletter is full of main lesson ideas and extensions as well as blogs about Waldorf Education. I a…

4th Grade story Stories from the Norse Legends Idunna’s Apples Part 2 Thank you for your donation and/or joining my patreon. Your help allows me to continue to create content for more grade levels. My monthly newsletter is full of main lesson ideas and extensions as well as blogs about Waldorf Education. I also offer a mentoring level where you can…

4th grade story Stories from the Norse Legends Idunna’s Apples Part 1 Thank you for your donation and/or joining my patreon. Your help allows me to continue to create content for more grade levels. My monthly newsletter is full of main lesson ideas and extensions as well as blogs about Waldorf Education. I also offer a mentoring level where you can…

Stories from the Norse Legends The Walls of Asgard Thank you for your donation and/or joining my patreon. Your help allows me to continue to create content for more grade levels. My monthly newsletter is full of main lesson ideas and extensions as well as blogs about Waldorf Education. I also offer a mentoring level where you can ask questions and …

3rd Grade Story Stories from the Torah Jacob and Esau Thank you for your donation and/or joining my patreon. Your help allows me to continue to create content for more grade levels. My monthly newsletter is full of main lesson ideas and extensions as well as blogs about Waldorf Education. I also offer a mentoring level where you can ask questions a…

3rd Grade Story Stories from the Torah Isaac and Rebecca Thank you for your donation and/or joining my patreon. Your help allows me to continue to create content for more grade levels. My monthly newsletter is full of main lesson ideas and extensions as well as blogs about Waldorf Education. I also offer a mentoring level where you can ask question…

3rd grade Stories from the Torah Into the Wilds:Hagar and Ishmael Thank you for your donation and/or joining my patreon. Your help allows me to continue to create content for more grade levels. My monthly newsletter is full of main lesson ideas and extensions as well as blogs about Waldorf Education. I also offer a mentoring level where you can ask…

3rd grade story Stories from the Torah Abraham and His Sister Thank you for your donation and/or joining my patreon. Your help allows me to continue to create content for more grade levels. My monthly newsletter is full of main lesson ideas and extensions as well as blogs about Waldorf Education. I also offer a mentoring level where you can ask que…

Here are some of the poems we are playing with during the warm up part of class. Before academic work, choose some songs and poems and work with the sounds. This is especially important for neurodivergent folks! Are you living with a form of dyslexia, dysgraphia, or dyscalculia? Are you working with ADD or ADHD? Working with poetry and speech creat…

Sarai loved Abram so much she would do anything for him to have a son.

A promise is a promise

Will the Runes reveal their secret to Odin?

Odin and the NornsPart 1 Odin's Quest for wisdom and knowledge

The Norse Gods - The beginning

Rigspula: The Lay of Rig From the Prose Edda

There are two types of Gods and sometimes they don't get along.

Here are some tongue twisters and poems! Enjoy!

Here is the description of the World Tree where the 9 worlds and the Norns can be found.

Fourth graders in Waldorf school often hear the stories of the Vikings and their Gods and Goddesses. This month I will be telling some of these stories. In class, we are using these stories to delve into grammar and writing.

Three strangers visit Abram and Sarai. Who are they? They have a special mission and Abram has some words with God.

Abram and his nephew must part ways. This sets Lot on a path to his own Destiny.

In this story Abram and his wife Sarai escape the famine in the land by traveling to Egypt to seek refuge. Things get complicated when Pharaoh falls in love.

This is the beginning of the story of Abraham and Sarah the patriarch and matriarch of the Jewish and Christian faiths.

This is a retelling of the classic struggle between Archangel Michael and Lucifer, the Dragon. Michaelmas or The Festival of Courage is celebrated in late September in Waldorf Schools. This actually use to be a more popular holiday but fell out of celebration. It is a wonderful addition to our celebration of the harvest and welcoming the autumn. Ba…

This is a retelling of a story written by Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin. You can find his complete story online. It is called the The Silent Shofar and the Smith's Assistant. This story is lovely for all grades!

This story is from Andrew Lang's Pink Fairy Book. It is a wonderful collection of interesting fairy tales and folk stories. This story is a traditional Scandinavian tale.

This is a lovely adventure tale perfect for Michaelmas. There is a hero and dragon to slay!

This story is a lovely tale about corn and beans and how they came to grow together. It is a love story.

This is the tale of how different languages came into being from the Hebrew tradition. I like this story for introducing house and shelter building and I include a description of making mud bricks.

This is a Native American trickster tale. Coyote is famous for playing clever tricks on others but this time Turkey plays the trick. I like this story for grades 3,4,5. After the story I speak a little about using poetry for academic support. Included is a poem spoken 3 times in different ways, This is a great one for 4th and 5th graders especially…

The story of Noah and the Flood ends with a promise, a covenant with God. In this episode we also have the story of Noah's cursing of his grandson Canaan. This curse sets up the Canaanites as being a cursed people. This is important later.

This is a presentation about the Kachinas of the Hopi people and a interesting little story from a traditional teller named Kwáyeshva who is an Oraíbi member. You can google this teller to find more Kachina and traditional Hopi stories from the Southwest peoples of the United States. I am telling this story to my current online 4th graders for thei…

This is the part of the story once the rains have stopped.

This is a story from the Zuni People. This story is one of my favorites for introducing the flute or recorder. It is also wonderful to tell and create a painting from.

This is part of two of the story of how the Dineh people came to this world. I love this story for introducing the four directions and how mountains are formed.

This story comes form the Pima People. This story can also be used for 3rd grade shelter building, 5th grade Geography and Botany, and 4th grade Geography.

This story comes from the Dineh People of the Southwest in the US. The Dineh people are also known as the Navajo. They hold in their ceremonial stories the history of the worlds that came before this one.

In the classroom I stretch stories out over a few days to build anticipation. The story of Noah and the Flood is an ancient story and well known. In this retailing I include parts of the story that are often left out, like the measurement of the ark. This story is a nice one to introduce measurement.…

In this episode, we continue with the Biblical story of the descendants of Adam and Eve. Tubal Cain is Cain's great great great great great grand son. Included is a recitation of Charles Mackay's poem Tubal Cain. We do not impart poetry enough with our students. This results in a vocabulary that is lacking and difficulty in writing creatively. Chec…

In this story, we meet two brothers. These brothers try their best to please God but only one of they will. One will become so jealous that he does the unthinkable.

This is the second creation story in Bible. Here, first man and first woman, Adam and Eve, face temptation. If you are looking for a fun way to explore these stories, I recommend wet on wet painting each of the days of creation. If you use only primary colors, the children can explore color combinations. These acts of their own creation empower the…

In Waldorf schools, the third grade often studies the stories from the Hebrew people. This story begins at genesis, the creation story. This story is one of the most ancient stories still told today. In the book of Genesis there are two creation stories. In the first one, God makes everything in 6 days and rests on the 7th. In the second story, God…

This story is from the Anikara People related to the Lakota who live in the northern plains in the United States and in the southern plains of Canada. This story starts with a portion of their emergence story and I have merged with it the Sharing Corn story. This is a wonderful story to use to introduce the 4 directions, sharing bounty of the harve…