Form Drawing Planning

I have my first Form Drawing Block planned out as well!  This block will be 3.5 weeks at the start of the year.  I'll be doing a lot of watercolor painting during this time as well (form drawing and painting both to help with fine motor and writing prep), but I need to do more planning for the watercolor painting.

Form drawing is unique to Waldorf Education.  It helps the child prepare for both writing letters and later geometry. More information as well as a video is here, a great post is here by a very experienced Waldorf homeschooler, and here is an article on the Waldorf Library called "Form Drawing" by Rosemary Gebert.

I will be using the following books (the first two for reference of the forms and the third for the stories):
“Form Drawing for Beginners”, Donna Simmons
“Form Drawing for Grades 1-4”, Ernst Schuberth and Laura Embry-Stine
“Liputto”, Jakob Streit

My format for this block will be to tell the stories and then to draw the forms on the chalkboard and as I draw the form, I'll say the part of the story related to the form.

Week 1:  Form Drawing exercises per Mrs. M’s First Day article (available for free via her WaldorfHomeEducators Yahoo group) and Steiner’s indications (in “Practical Advice for Teachers”) and Ernst Schuberth Form Drawing book - Schuberth has instructions for first three days and will do Figure 3 (Day 3 in book) over two days.

Week 2:  
Story:  “Liputto” by Jakob Streit, The Story of the Little Gnome Liputto
Day 1 - Ring on Liputtos cap = circle form, Figure 6 (Schuberth book)
Day 2 - Seven rings on Liputto’s cap = concentric circles, Figure 7 (Schuberth book)
Story:  “Liputto” by Jakob Streit, Liputto and the Trampled Violet  
Day 3 - Liputto comes close to violet = Figure 8a (Schuberth book)
Day 4 - Farmer boy backs away and goes home = Figure 8a (Schuberth book)

Week 3:
Story:  “Liputto” by Jakob Streit, Liputto Saves a Bunny
Day 1 - Mom hops, then bunny hops - one big semicircle open down, the small one, then big, then small, then big, then small
Day 2 - bunnies hide in tall grass - tall vertical lines left to right on page
Day 3 - Mother rabbit sees field of carrots - horizontal lines top to bottom on page (like second row, second column of p. 14 in Donna Simmons’ “Form Drawing for Beginners”)
Day 4 - Bunny disappeared under a fern - first three semicircles from row 3, column 1 of p. 13 in Donna Simmons’ “Form Drawing for Beginners” - so two big semi circles open down with semi circle open up in the middle

Week 4:
Story:  “Liputto” by Jakob Streit, Liputto Saves a Bunny
Day 1 - the whole meadow was mowed by lawn mower - small vertical lines across page - p. 14 for Donna Simmons’ “Form Drawing for Beginners”, row 1, column 2 

Day 2 - gnome takes rabbit to find her baby bunny - one horizontal line across page (for gnome’s path) and a series of semicircles open downward below straight line for rabbit hops