Waldorf Clearing House Newsletter

 

Archives of Issues published between 1967 and 1988

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

 

Introduction

The Clearing House Newsletter was a subscription Newsletter written by and for Waldorf teachers. Over the years, contributions covering a wide range of topics and classroom experience appeared. Early issues served to make visible general news, teaching ideas, newly discovered resources, and the needs of the teachers for translations and source materials. Later issues were generally thematic, addressing one topic or another in the curriculum, or in the practice of Waldorf education. Please bear in mind that this is an archive - and some of the material contained is therefore somewhat dated. However, because we feel that a great deal of it is still useful and should be available to those who are interested, we have elected to publish the contents of each issue in this section of the Online Library. The table of contents for each issue can be found below, and clicking on the link will take you to the appropriate Adobe PDF file. Some of these files are pretty large - please be patient.

 

The Issues

Spring, 1967

Intentions of the Clearing House
Publications
South African Schools
MA Program at Adelphi

Winter, 1967

Highland Hall suggested resources
The Rudolf Steiner School suggested resources
Garden City Waldorf School suggested resources

Winter, 1968 Part 1

The Rudolf Steiner School suggested resources
Toronto Waldorf School suggested resources
Detroit Waldorf Poem: Ants
Detroit Waldorf Poem: The Dwarfs
Kimberton Farms suggested resources

Winter, 1968 Part 2

Green Meadow building dedication
Highland Hall suggested resources
Sacramento Waldorf suggested resources
Craft Poem by Betty Kane
Verb Poem by Bill Bryant
Garden City Waldorf School suggested resources

Spring, 1969

Translations
Teaching materials available through the schools
Recommended teaching materials
Teaching ideas
Poem by Marianne Buergin: What Can the Animals Do?
General news

Winter, 1971 Part 1

General news from various schools
Teaching ideas (flour grinding, tricks with mirrors)
Recommended teaching materials

Winter, 1971 Part 2

Recommended teaching materials (cont.)
Teaching materials available through the schools
Translations available
Translations in progress
Suggested translations

Spring, 1972 Part 1

General news from several schools
Teaching ideas (third grade music, including a song, eighth grade English, high school English)

Spring, 1972 Part 2

Teaching ideas (cont.) (ninth grade woodworking, eleventh grade art)
Recommended teaching materials
Translations

Fall, 1972

General news from several schools
Teaching ideas (second grade knitting, third grade music, fourth grade French, sixth grade kaleidoscopes)

Requests
Recommended/ available teaching materials
Translations

Spring, 1973

General news from several schools
Reports from classes
Verse for the morning circle by Barbara Palesty
Teaching Old Testament to Sophomores
Kindergarten verse by Lesley Rosenberg
End of Day verse by Lesley Rosenberg
First and Second Grade knitting
Recommended books

Spring, 1974 Part 1

General News
Bibliographies
Teaching ideas (eighth grade math, third grade English, second grade reading)
Parsifal in Grade Eleven

Spring, 1974 Part 2

Parsifal in Grade Eleven (continued)
Sixth grade acoustics
Plays for grades Eight and Twelve (extensive list)
Recommended reading

Spring, 1975 Part 1

General news from several schools
Teaching ideas (sixth grade acoustics)

Spring, 1975 Part 2

Re-cycling beeswax
Sixth Grade geometry
High School French
Fundraising
Recommended books

Fall, 1975

General news from several schools
Reports from classes (Marionettes in the Kindergarten, first grammar lessons, fourth grade verses, teaching games)

Recommended Foreign Language texts
The Michaelmas Festival
Requests
Pulications available

Fall, 1976

Pre-school rhymes and circle games
A Second Grade Michaelmas Play by Virginia Sease
Mother Goose en Francaise
The pains and struggles of starting a high school
Recommended reading
Suggested plays

Spring, 1977 The Third Grade Part 1

On Third Graders
Old Testament Stories, with bibliography
Practical Life - Housing, with bibliography

Spring, 1977 The Third Grade Part 2

Practical Life - Clothing, with bibliography
Practical Life - Farming, with bibliography

Spring, 1977 The Third Grade Part 3

English Grammar
Handwriting
Readers
Arithmetic
Music
Holidays
Schedules

Fall, 1977 The Sixth Grade Part 1

Reflections on Sixth Grade and Sixth Graders
Summary of a Sixth Grade Year
Possible Sixth Grade Schedule
Crafts in Sixth Grade
Sixth Grade Spanish
Book Reviews - Roman History

Fall, 1977 The Sixth Grade Part 2

Book Reviews - Roman History (cont.)
Class Readers
Bibliography for Sixth Grade
Notes on Science
Assembly Program - Optics
Daily Schedules for 1977-78 Sixth Grades

Spring, 1978 The Pre-School Part 1

Daily Routine
The Seasons
Lunch Program

Spring, 1978 The Pre-School Part 2

Lunch Program (cont.)
Bread-baking (with song)
Holidays - Hallowe'en (with songs)
Holidays - Thanksgiving

Spring, 1978 The Pre-School Part 3

Puppet Play - The Greedy Cat
Puppet Play - The Little Boy
Puppet Play - Mashenka and the Bear (with song)

Spring, 1978 The Pre-School Part 4

Mashenka's Song
Puppet Play - Summer Play
Puppet Play - Giant and the Gnome
Stick Puppets - Design and Instructions
Verses and Song
Evening Prayer

Fall, 1981 Stories and Poems by Helen St. John Part 1

Story - The Saint and the Serpent

Fall, 1981 Stories and Poems by Helen St. John Part 2

The Saint and the Serpent (cont.)
Advent Poem
Christmas Poem
Story - The Little Christmas Rose
Poem - Wanderer's Lullaby

Spring, 1982 Part 1

On the Origins of the Shading Technique by Assia Turgenieff
On the Granite by Goethe

Spring, 1982 Part 2

Stories and Poems by Helen St. John
Story - The Big Enough House
Story - Flick and Flack
Poem - God's Children
Poem - Creation
Poem - Spring
Poem - Spring Blossom
Poem - Row Me Over the Water
Poem - Contraction and Expansion
Poem - The Painter
Poem - The Royal Family
Poem - Two by Two

Fall, 1982 Part 1

Contributions on First Grade
Verses and a Play by Eugene Schwartz
Verse- Tooth Fairy Game
Verse - Form Drawing
Verse - Vowels
Verse - B
Verse - Summer is Ending
Verse - Late Winter
Verses for the numbers block
A Play - Nixie of the Mill Pond

Fall, 1982 Part 2

Nixie of the Mill Pond (cont.)
Ancient Michaelmas Traditions from the Hebrides
Plays Performed by Eighth Grades
Classroom Color Chart

Spring, 1983 Part 1

Practical and Artistic Instruction from Class 9 to 12 by F. Weitmann

Spring, 1983 Part 2

Story - the Princess and the Woodcutter by Helen St. John

Fall, 1983 Part 1

Story - The Sleep of the Seeds by Charlotte Dukich
Story - The painter of the Last Supper by Carl Schleich

Fall, 1983 Part 2

The Plastic Arts in the Waldorf School, an excerpt from Jünemann and Weitmann

Fall, 1984 Part 1

A Play - Noah and the Flood by Eugene Schwartz

Fall, 1984 Part 2

Black and White Drawing in the Eleventh Grade, an excerpt from Jünemann and Weitmann

Fall, 1985 Part 1

Notes on Painting with Grades 6-8 from a course with Frau Jünemann

Fall, 1985 Part 2

Notes on Painting with Grades 6-8 from a course with Frau Jünemann (cont.)
Story - The Rose by Dana Williams

Spring, 1986 Part 1

Notes on Form Drawing course with Frau Jünemann

Spring, 1986 Part 2

Margrit Jünemann on Blackboard Work
The Temperaments - notes on a talk by Margrit Jünemann
Book List of Inspirational Publications

Fall, 1986 Part 1

Article on the Time Sense of the Child and Time in Relation to Grammar by Erika Dühnfort

Fall, 1986 Part 2

Sentence Diagrams

Spring, 1987 Part 1

A Play - The Story of Rama by Karen Bezin

Spring, 1987 Part 2

From Analyzing to Imagining - Working Out an Artistic Approach to Knowledge in the Teaching of Literature by Rainer Patzlaff

Fall, 1987 Part 1

Three Lectures on the Curriculum by Rudolf Steiner

Fall, 1987 Part 2

Three Lectures on the Curriculum by Rudolf Steiner (cont.)
Notes from a Painting Course with Doris Nixdorff

Spring, 1988 Curative Eurythmy Part 1

The Beginnings of Curative Eurythmy
The Education of the Curative Eurythmist
Eurythmy and Curative Eurythmy in the Waldorf Schools
Curative Eurythmy in the Light of Anthroposophy

Spring, 1988 Curative Eurythmy Part 2

Curative Eurythmy within the Schools in America
Preparation

Lesson Structure and Method

 

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