• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Living Traditional Arts

Living Traditional Arts

  • Articles
    • Art
    • Beyond the Back Forty
    • Craft
    • Education
    • Farming
    • Gardens
    • History
    • Painting
    • Small Business
    • Sustainability
  • Galleries
    • Blackboard Drawings
    • Rivers
  • Shop
You are here: Home / Archives for education

education

From An Educator’s Notebook

January 20, 2019 by Kate Walter

  TEN   —   Playing to improve confidence and familiarity with number facts. In arithmetic, complete familiarity and accuracy with basic number facts is important, so as an early grades teacher I played number games with students whenever there was a spare moment. The children studied number relationships while they had fun with each other, and…READ MORE >

Share Button

Filed Under: Beyond the Back Forty, Children, Education Tagged With: arithmetic, cards, education, fun, game, number, ten

Farm Festival at Las Milpitas de Cottonwood

December 6, 2013 by Kate Walter

When We Grow Our Food, Our Community Grows November in Tucson, Arizona, signals a change in season.  The intense summer sun has relaxed, and while we wait for the winter rains, people, plants and animals reach a place of contented wellbeing.  We find joy in the warm soft brightness of an autumn day in the desert.  …READ MORE >

Share Button

Filed Under: Education, Farming, Festival, History, Sustainability Tagged With: arizona, autumn, desert, desert agriculture, desert farming, education, garden, irrigation, Kate Walter, Michael Wright, planting, renewable, resources, seed library, seeds, sustainability, tucson, urban farming, urban sustainability, water

Blackboard Drawings

April 8, 2013 by Kate Walter

One of the rewards found teaching in a Waldorf school is the required opportunity to work with colored chalk on the blackboard.  In the Waldorf classroom, we put drawings on the board to create mood and atmosphere in the classroom and to be an artful aid to the students, encouraging them to enter their lessons imaginatively.…READ MORE >

Share Button

Filed Under: Art, Blackboard Drawing, Education Tagged With: blackboard, drawings, education, Kate Walter, Leo Klein, Michael Wright, Steiner, teaching, Waldorf

Primary Sidebar

by Michael Wright

Garden of Radio Delights

Roll back the tape: 1960, Cincinnati, Ohio, 3 am. My upstairs bedroom.  Headphones on, I’m squinting in the dark at the lighted dial of my Hallicrafter S-38e short wave radio, with a Q-multiplier attached that I built from a Heathkit. The S-38e was produced from 1957 to 1961, making it the end of the Hallicrafters S-38 line of shortwave…READ MORE >

Music in the Wood: Harmonic Forms by Paul Fairchild

I climbed down out of the Crow’s Nest and spent a recent Saturday afternoon worrying a pile of knotty red oak rounds with a maul and wedge, whittling them down to size for the wood stove. As I split them open, I enjoyed seeing the beautiful swirling grains in the wood, exposed to the sunlight…READ MORE >

Shop Living Traditional Arts


Ten Card Game Rules - Instant Download
$ 6.00

Artwork by Kate Walter

  • Kate Walter Prints and more on Artpal
  • Kate Walter Studio

Footer

  • Shop
  • Archive
  • Galleries
  • Contributors
  • About Living Traditional Arts
  • Contact
  • Home

Living Traditional Arts

  • Shop
  • Archive
  • Galleries
  • Contributors
  • About Living Traditional Arts
  • Contact
  • Home