Lotus & Ivy
Waldorf-Inspired Virtual Classes
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Expanded CurriculumClass1

Lotus & Ivy provides live, interactive Waldorf math classes online for 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade. Second grade topics: Fluency in counting up to and backward from 100, Becoming comfortable with numbers up to 1000, Place value, Estimation, Basic addition and subtraction facts, Fact families, Commutative property, Becoming comfortable with multiplication and division facts, Addition & subtraction with multi-digits, Geometrical patterns to assist with learning, Mental math strategies, Days, months, seasons, calendar, time, Simple word problems, Math games and movement activities, Rhythmical exercises

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Class 1 Skills Practice

Our Class One Skills classes are live and interactive. Arithmetic Skills meets once per week.  Language Arts Skills meets two times per week. Registration for each class is separate.  During these lessons, the teacher will provide instruction and practice activities following a Waldorf-inspired grade appropriate Arithmetic or Language Arts Skills Practice curriculum.  In general, new concepts will be introduced in the main lesson and deepened in the Skills classes.  

Foundational Skills for Arithmetic and Language Arts will be experienced through movement, artistic activities, form drawing and working with manipulatives, puzzles and games.  In-class practice is a springboard for at-home daily practice.  Class one children will be given practice work expected to be completed with a grown up two to three 20-minute sessions during the week.  Rewatching parts of the recording, refining a form drawing or playing a game, all with grown up support, could be part of this At-Home work.

Class 1 Math Skills Class Topics

The Foundational Skills to Develop Mathematical Thinking

  • Subitizing

  • Magnitude

  • Counting

  • Ordinal & Cardinal Numbers

  • Hierarchical Inclusion and Part-Whole Relationships.

~Jeff Tunkey, Educating for Balance and Resilience

  •  The world of numbers.

    • Roman Numerals

    • Quality of Numbers

    • Counting to 100 forward and backward

    • Number dictations

  • Developing a sense of numbers

    • Rhythmical counting

    • Movement

    • Estimating

  • Beginning calculations

    • Four operations

      • Add and subtract up to 24 and fluently up to 10

      • Number Bonds

      • Learning the “easy facts” (what adds up to 10 and 6+6 etc.)

        ~Jaime York, Making Math Meaningful

Class 1 Language Arts Skills Class Topics

The Foundational Skills of Reading and Writing

  • Phonological Awareness: Sound discrimination, word, syllable, rhyme and alliteration

  • Phonemic Awareness: decode, encode, segment, add, delete, substitute

  • Finger and hand individuation

  • Movement integration 

  • Form Drawing

  • Recitation and Song as practice for foundational skills

  • Upper- and lower-case letters and their sounds learned through story and picture imagination

  • Grade level vocabulary through story

  • High frequency (sight) words: Words that need to be learned by heart

  • Phonics rules through story

  • Short vowels through Singing Sound

    ~Compiled by Janet Langley, Jennifer Militzer, and Patti Connolly, “Roadmap to Literacy”

Main Lesson & Skills Classes Support Each Other

Class One main lesson blocks include rotating themes in form drawing, language arts and arithmetic as part of the Lotus & Ivy Main Lesson class. Both our Main Lesson class and our Arithmetic Skills and Language Arts Skills Practice classes, together are part of the full Lotus & Ivy curriculum, which provides a comprehensive, whole-child, rigorous education. We encourage students to enroll in our Math Skills and Language Arts Skills classes in addition to our Main Lesson classes to receive the deepening curriculum through imagination, experiential, artistic and practical application.

Students do not need to be enrolled in Lotus & Ivy Main Lesson Class to enroll in Lotus & Ivy Skills Classes; however, most students in the Math and Language Arts Skills classes are also in the Main Lesson class.  If registering a la carte for Math and  Language Arts Skills, we recommend you follow the same Main Lesson block rotation at home as listed on the Grade one main lesson section of the website.