Seasons of Joy Looking for a way to bring peace and joy to your day?
Seasons of Joy is my 10-week seasonal guidebook to add rhythm and fun to your daily routine. Each guidebook has ten weeks' worth of circle times, stories, arts, crafts, and handwork, painting, playtime activities and more!
Seasons of Joy seeks to empower families to create peaceful rhythms and routines and joyful celebrations that follow the circle of the year. The blog also chronicles our adventures in living simply, loving exuberantly, and Waldorf inspired homeschooling.
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Call to Circle
Are we ready? Are we ready?
Holding hands together? Holding hands together?
Time to light the candle, time to light the candle.
Circle time! Circle time!
Adapted from The Singing Day, sung to the tune of “Frere Jacques”
Candle Lighting
The sun it shines so warm and bright.
It shines on all I do.
Now let me take this bit of light
So I shine brightly too.
Autumn Seasons of Joy
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Autumn has come to the country and town,
Wearing its garment of golden and brown.
Apples she brings us so round and so red,
Brings us our corn that we bake into bread. Read more...
The sunlight now is dwindling.
My little lamp needs kindling.
Its beams shine far in darkest night,
Dear lantern, guard me with your light.
 Pumpkin Cookies
1 C shortening
1 C sugar
1 C solid-packed pumpkin
1 egg
2 C all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
Cream the shortening, sugar, and pumpkin together with a mixer. Add the egg and mix well. Sift together the dry ingredients and then add them to the creamed mixture. Drop rounded teaspoonfulls onto an ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes.
OK, the shortening part isn’t so great (but do you know they make organic shortening? So it’s OK, right? Because it’s organic!) but these are really, really yummy.
 I rake and rake the leaves into a great big heap. Pretend to rake
Then into the leaves I jump and take a great big leap.
Jump and squat.
I cover myself with the leaves and hide from you. Then I jump up and, “Peek-a-Boo!”
Jump up!
Call to Circle
Sing, sing, of the candle a-glowing.
Sing, sing, of the candle a-glowing.
Sing of the pumpkin and sing of the night.
Sing of the autumn and sing of the light.
Sing, sing of the candle glow.
Candle Lighting (We actually light the jack o’ lantern)
Jack O’ Lantern, Jack O’ Lantern,
Your light it doth shone.
Sitting up upon a window
And your light it is mine.
Once you were a yellow pumpkin
Sitting on the sturdy vine.
Now you are my jack o’ lantern
And your little light will shine. Read more...
 Fall Leaf MobileUsing a cereal box or other thin, flexible cardboard, cut a one-inch wide, eighteen-inch long (or so) strip. Tape it in a circle and punch six holes in the strip.
Have the children collect colorful fall leaves on a nature walk. After they’ve been collected, press them between pieces of wax paper. Punch a hole in the wax paper leaves and tie them with string of various lengths. Tie the string to the holes you punched in the circular strip.
Leaves are falling to the ground.
Flutter fingers
Some are orange, others brown.
Flowers disappear from sight.
Birds fly south in patterned flight.
Pretend to fly.
Fall is here. Warm weather is gone.
Soon the snow will cover the lawn!
Pretend to shiver.
I have a migraine for the second night in a row, but stumbled upon this on another blog:
How to Make Maple Leaf Roses
I thought this could be sweet on a nature table!
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Our Current Read Aloud: On the Banks of Plum Creek
In the car we’re listening to… The Incorrigable Children of Ashton Place and the Hidden Gallery
Nursery Rhyme Nursery School Rain on the green grass,
Rain on the trees,
Rain on the rooftops,
But not on me!
 Character Counts! This month we’re learning about… Sincerity
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
Blessed Mother Teresa, Pray for Us! 
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
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