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 Waldorf 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.
Intentions of the Clearing House
Publications
South African Schools
MA Program at Adelphi University
Highland Hall suggested resources
The Rudolf Steiner School suggested resources
Garden City Waldorf School suggested resources
The Rudolf Steiner School suggested resources
Toronto Waldorf School suggested resources
Detroit Waldorf Poem: Ants
Detroit Waldorf Poem: The Dwarfs
Kimberton Farms suggested resources
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
Translations
Teaching materials available through the schools
Recommended teaching materials
Teaching ideas
Poem by Marianne Buergin: What Can the Animals Do?
General news
General news from various schools
Teaching ideas (flour grinding, tricks with mirrors)
Recommended teaching materials
Recommended teaching materials (cont.)
Teaching materials available through the schools
Translations available
Translations in progress
Suggested translations
General news from several schools
Teaching ideas (third grade music, including a song, eighth grade English, high school English)
Link to issue, part 2
Teaching ideas (cont.) (ninth grade woodworking, eleventh grade art)
Recommended teaching materials
Translations
General news from several schools
Pre-school rhymes and circle games
Teaching ideas (second grade knitting, third grade music, fourth grade French, sixth grade kaleidoscopes)
Requests
Recommended/ available teaching materials
Translations
Link to entire issue
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
General News
Bibliographies
Teaching ideas (eighth grade math, third grade English, second grade reading)
Parsifal in Grade Eleven
Parsifal in Grade Eleven (continued)
Sixth grade acoustics
Plays for grades Eight and Twelve (extensive list)
Recommended reading
General news from several schools
Teaching ideas (sixth grade acoustics)
Re-cycling beeswax
Sixth Grade geometry
High School French
Fundraising
Recommended books
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
Publications available
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
Link to issue, part 1
On Third Graders
Old Testament Stories, with bibliography
Practical Life - Housing, with bibliography
Practical Life - Clothing, with bibliography
Practical Life - Farming, with bibliography
English Grammar
Handwriting
Readers
Arithmetic
Music
Holidays
Schedules
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
Book Reviews - Roman History (cont.)
Class Readers
Bibliography for Sixth Grade
Notes on Science
Assembly Program - Optics
Daily Schedules for 1977-78 Sixth Grades
Daily Routine
The Seasons: Spring Garden, Little Autumn - songs and handwork patterns
Lunch Program
Link to issue, part 2
Lunch Program (cont.)
Bread-baking (with song)
Holidays - Hallowe'en (with songs)
Holidays - Thanksgiving
Link to entire issue, part 3
Little Puppet Plays:
Puppet Play - The Greedy Cat
Puppet Play - The Little Boy Who Always Wanted to be Taken Along
Puppet Play - Mashenka and the Bear (with song)
Link to issue, 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
Story - The Saint and the Serpent
The Saint and the Serpent (cont.)
Advent Poem
Christmas Poem
Story - The Little Christmas Rose
Poem - Wanderer's Lullaby
Link to issue, part 1
On the Origins of the Shading Technique by Assia Turgenieff
On the Granite by Goethe
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
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
Nixie of the Mill Pond (cont.)
Ancient Michaelmas Traditions from the Hebrides
Plays Performed by Eighth Grades
Classroom Color Chart
Practical and Artistic Instruction from Class 9 to 12 by F. Weitmann
Story - the Princess and the Woodcutter by Helen St. John
Story - The Sleep of the Seeds by Charlotte Dukich
Story - The painter of the Last Supper by Carl Schleich
The Plastic Arts in the Waldorf School, an excerpt from Jünemann and Weitmann
A Play - Noah and the Flood by Eugene Schwartz
Black and White Drawing in the Eleventh Grade, an excerpt from Jünemann and Weitmann
Notes on Painting with Grades 6-8 from a course with Frau Jünemann, part 1
Notes on Painting with Grades 6-8 from a course with Frau Jünemann, part 2
Story - The Rose by Dana Williams
Notes on Form Drawing course with Frau Jünemann
Blackboard Work by Margrit Jünemann
The Temperaments - notes on a talk by Margrit Jünemann
Book List of Inspirational Publications
Article on the Time Sense of the Child and Time in Relation to Grammar by Erika Dühnfort
Sentence Diagrams
A Play - The Story of Rama by Karen Bezin
From Analyzing to Imagining - Working Out an Artistic Approach to Knowledge in the Teaching of Literature by Rainer Patzlaff
Three Lectures on the Curriculum by Rudolf Steiner
Three Lectures on the Curriculum, part 2, by Rudolf Steiner
Notes from a Painting Course with Doris Nixdorff
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
Curative Eurythmy within the Schools in America
Preparation
Lesson Structure and Method