How to Use the Videos

Living Lesson Member Tips & Reminders #2: How to Use the Videos

1. Each video is one Main Lesson.
2. Main lessons are meant to do over three days and should focus on head, heart, and hands
3. The process will be:
   
   
   

A. HEAD: Watch the Video

B. HEART: Discuss the video, watch it again for deeper meaning, do extra readings suggested in the video, write about what you experienced by watching the video or discuss it with the teacher, or any other activity that brings you deeper into the lesson.

C. HANDS: Do a physical activity related to the video. This can be a main lesson book drawing, a painting, a sculpture, some work with beeswax, a play, or any other activity that is physical in nature.

1. DOING THE VIDEOS MORE QUICKLY: Perhaps you want to go through the videos more quickly and/or you are using the ‘by the week’ page and there are more videos to do each week. In either case you CAN do the video in 1-2 days. 
2. IF DOING THE VIDEO IN ONE DAY: You will just need to take a break between steps B and C above. The break could be 20 minutes or it could simply be doing half the lesson in the morning and half in the afternoon. 
3. IF DOING THE VIDEO IN TWO DAYS: You can combine and of the steps above into one day and leave step C for the second day.

FAQ: Yes, you can overlap videos and do two videos on the same day by starting the next video on the same day you do steps B & C or just step C above. 

NOTE FOR SHORT VIDEOS: If the video is a shorter video that only shows you an art project, handwork, song, or Main Lesson Book page you can use that video just once.

Lesson 1: The Fox and the Crow Fable

Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann

Length: 40:12

We’ll begin this lesson with our morning verse followed by an energetic rhythmic clapping activity to wake our minds up. After this, we’ll calm things down with a rhyming story about two little kittens. Next, we’ll get into our fable for the day called The Fox and the Crow. We’ll use this story as a way to learn of some new vocabulary words. We will also learn about words that use -er, -ir, and -ur. Teacher Mellie explains why the words are pronounced the way that they are, despite looking like they should maybe be pronounced in a different way. We’ll finish this lesson by using our main lesson book to draw a crayon picture of the fox and crow to summarize the fable we heard.

·      Morning verse

·      Rhythmic poem activities

·      Rhyming stories

·      Waldorf fables

·      Spelling (-er, -ir, -ur)

·      Drawing activity

·      Sentence structure

·      Vowel rules

Member Feedback: “I love the inclusion of the numerous rhythm and rhyming activities. It keeps students engaged the whole way through!”