One of the many things I love about home school is that we have the freedom to just let my girl do what she pleases for hours of the day. And she loves to sew and craft. I like that I don't have to 'make her' - it just happens! Here is Tilde hard at work.

Tildes indepentent felt project

 So Tilde was sitting in the kitchen during our irish pirate day celebration, when suddenly she said - "I am going to make a nature table for Hugo" and she just started felting away And here are the fruits of her genius!

 The Mama

 The Papa

 The Baby

 The Sister

And the field and sky!
Hugo loves them and she is not bothered that she will have to repair them regularly.

Felting!

 Here are our felted soaps Tilde did the main parts - she is so much better then me and I did the needle felting on top.

 these are some wax gnomes she did. Just a bit of randomness.

 Here is her march lion. Her first needle felting! I couldn't believe it ! She did not poke her self even once.

Here is our bunny. He is needle felted! She did the pink ears.
We love felting! I was so intimidated by it at first. It took ages to find all the materials. But in the end I bought a kit from our local Cable Arts Store. We have a couple of books - Magic Wool and the Needle Felting book from Paper Scissors Stone. But the Crunchy Parent from You Tube was the one who taught us wet felting. And BAM! We are felting fiends! Though its my little girl who is best at wet felting. She is so much more patient then me.

Nature Table

And here is our nature table! We have worked very hard to finally have one. Tilde has done so much. She sewed the snow drops and daffodils, the fairy clothes and much of the fairy bodies. I am so amazed by all she does.

Waldorf alphabet so far

A quick update - as of 9/9/15 ~ we dont us Live Education anymore. It is filed away like many other curriculum that we just couldn't make work for us.  This post - in retrospect - might be better seen as a cautionary tale - and not a recommended path. So pretty pictures though! ^_^! but those were actually very hard times for us. I now use Queens Curriculum and Children’s Garden of the Theotokos. Because - yeah. It just works better for us. Oh - and print outs of like 1970s activity books. Cuz - they tend to be straight forward with out a lot of product placement and gimmicky franchise centric marketing. ( I am not into leep frog for this reason)

We are just starting vowels but here are some of the first letters in order according to Live Education!

 B by tilde

 B by mama. We used Snow White and Rose Red for our story and the tongue twisters and verse from LE.

 C before I figured out how to be a bit more simple. We told Cat and Mouse and the tongue twisters and verse from LE

 M right around when I started wondering if chalk board is really for us. We made up our own story about a mountain goat and sang Climbing Up Sunshine Mountain.

 D looking alright - but Still - to messy. For Dear we told Brother and Sister but said Dear instead of Roebuck. And we used the tongue twisters and verses from LE

 R when we switched to note book - way easier.We told The Mitten as our story and used the tongue twisters and verse from LE

 L for lamb - but it looks like something is wrong with his leg :( We did verses from Mother Goose and Mary Had a Little Lamb.

 G for goose girl - and we read the Goose Girl and used the tongue twisters and verse from LE.

 F for the fisherman and his wife And did the tongue twisters and verse from LE.

S for Star A for Awe We are using the story of the Nativity - and doing  the tongue twisters and verse from LE.
That's it for now. We have taken 1st grade very slow. We have gone back and forth with kindi lessons and craft - just to keep it slow and gentle.