Waldorf Homeschool Curriculum

 

Inspired by Rudolf Steiner, meaningful education for boys and girls, based on the reality of family life.

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Jennifer Moore

Empowering, practical and inspiring materials created to speak to the unique needs
of each child and each family.

Welcome new homeschoolers!

Learn why Christopherus might be the right Waldorf homeschool curriculum for you. There are many reasons why you might be exploring Christopherus. It could be because homeschooling has flowed from how you wish to parent and suits your lifestyle. It could be something you have considered since pregnancy or even before. Some of you reading this will have been homeschooled when children.

Early Years at Home

Protect, nurture and support your child’s foundational years through healthy parenting and home life.

Christopherus 4th grade Waldorf Homeschool Curriculum

Waldorf Homeschool Curriculum through the grades

Full curriculum and individual publications written by Donna Simmons, Waldorf teacher, parent educator and homeschooling parent.

Words of Support

Here you can find recordings on a wide range of subjects: from creating festivals at home to embracing being a homemaker; from understanding child development to inspiring gratitude in your child.

EARLY YEARS

Welcome to the nurturing world of early years Waldorf education!

Whether you intend to send your child to a Waldorf nursery or kindergarten or to keep your child at home, we hope that you will find inspiration and useful information here on our website as well as via the resources that we provide. READ MORE

An introduction to Christopherus Early Years

GRADES ONE - EIGHT

The Heart of Childhood : Seven to Fourteen

From 7 – 14, the grade school years, children are viewed as living primarily in their ‘feeling life’. By hearing the great myths and legends of various cultures, the adventures of heroes and explorers, and the struggles of men and women throughout history, children’s feelings are deeply affected and a moral basis to their learning is laid. READ MORE

THE HOMESCHOOL JOURNEY

Waldorf Homeschool Curriculum

NEWSLETTER AND BLOG

Homelife, The Basis for Homeschooling (5 Tips Episode #1)

So the title for this talk is A Home for Homemaking. If we are homeschoolers, then our home, and being at home, is what is most important. The home is the vessel, the chalice, the place where karmic relationships between the members of the household unfold. Donna...

Christopherus Geography

Geography is a wonderful homeschooling topic and at Christopherus, we follow the Waldorf path of gradually unfolding from home in fourth grade out to encompassing the world by eighth grade. Here is a grade by grade description of how we approach geography at...

From Form Drawing to Geometry

As I now (summer 2025)  head toward completing our Christopherus curriculum (parts of 8th grade are available here) I am in the wonderful and privileged position of being able to look back over the grades and seeing how they connect with one another, flowing as a...

Children and Angels

God is Listening One of the most powerful examples parents can set for their children is to let them witness them as reverent people who pray and who actively relates to the spiritual worlds. We live in dark times and often one can feel there is little or nothing one...

Child Development

In order to make the Christopherus curriculum one's own and to work with its healing depths, one needs to have more than a passing familiarity with child development.

Introduction to Anthroposophy

Although teachers in Waldorf schools should be working out of anthroposophy, no homeschooler is, of course obliged to walk this path. However, if one wants to understand the depths of this uniquely universal education, one which is, at heart a healing form of education because of its foundations in the spiritual truths of human development, then having some knowledge of anthroposophy is important.

Christopherus math through the grades

A holistic math curriculum At Christopherus we are proud to provide a math curriculum  based on the holistic reality of numbers and operations, grounded in the child’s own experience and deepened from grade to grade. From collecting nuts to memorizing math...

a story of St Nicholas

St Nicholas’ day has passed (6 December) but this is a lovely story to share with your children. It was written by a Christian Community (the church inspired by the work of Steiner) priest. May it be received with love and peace into your children’s...

Your Child and Tests

The Christopherus curriculum definitely includes tests–but the right tests, given in the right way at the right time. Listen here for a discussion of this topic plus what to do if tests are required where you live. Here is the link to the newsletter archive...

The Spiritual Reality of Truth

In this 20 minute talk I explore (briefly!!) the spiritual reality of truth; the un-truth of political movements inspired by postmodernism; and the paradox of the individual yet universality of the striving toward truth as a spiritual deed. I begin with the tale of...

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