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Journey Through Time

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I'm surprised that I'm the first person to review this item!

This wonderful collection edited by Heather Thomas is a gem for homeschooling families using the Waldorf method. Wonderful for all ages, this anthology includes poems and verses for morning and evening, graces, prayers, and meditations for parents and teachers as well as (from the table of contents):

Action Verses
Finger Games
Skipping
Fables
Animals
Farming and Building
Numbers
Tongue Twisters
Grammar
Alphabet
Parts of Speech
Voewls
Consonants
Riddles and Runes
Alliteration
The Elements and Nature Spirits
Flowers and Trees
Earth, Sun and Stars
Seasons
Autumn
Winter and Christmas
Spring and Easter
Summer
History
Imagination
Shakespeare
Narrative Poems

Each section is arranged roughly by age, so that the verses and poems toward the end of the book are suitable for high school use, where earlier sections like Fables (2nd grade) and Farming and Building (3rd grade) work well for elementary school. In short, this is a book you will turn to time and time again.

Don't hesitate to purchase this one! It's a treasure.

This book is very helpful to me as a Waldorf teacher for finding verses to use in Circle, as "graces" before meals, opening and closing verses, poems for recitation, and to practice letter sounds, to name a few. And this is only in first grade. I foresee using it all eight years. My only complaint is that I can't use some of the verses or have to alter them for use in a public charter school because of the references to God or angels, etc.

This is a great book with a huge content of poems, verses, rhymes, songs and prayer. There is a little something for every occasion, some old favourites and some never heard before. The reason this book has received only 4 stars is due to the number of entries with a Christian tone, it is however, nothing that could not be remedied with the changing of a word or two. All in all a great buy.

Wonderful.

We have chosen some of these poems for memorization, and some just for reading aloud and enjoying. I've caught my oldest two reading it for (*gasp*) FUN. :)

This is a wonderful addition to any curriculum at home. I like that there are short verses easy for a 5 yo to memorize, and some meaty ones that would be challenging for an adult to learn.

For those who may be concerned, there is Christian content... but not any-sided or biased to a certain faith-based point of view. There are poems about Christmas and religious in nature. Just a heads up to my non-Christian friends.

I wish we'd have discovered this little gem sooner!