Here's another Waldorf-lover. Doesn't work for everybody out here in the north western Europe, because of too many ego issues at school management level and in my personal case, it doesn't work too well with autistic children unless you throw in a healthy handful of special needs methods. (Classes in urban settings may be too big, too).
The rompompom song is wonderful in Spanish! If that doesn't concentrate the mind in living pictures nothing will!
I am not sure "abstract intellectual learning" is ever initiated, though, at Waldorf! I love how the alphabet is taught with letters as living entities in their own right. People worry that the child will never learn to spell, but before you know it the happy learner will write the most amazing assignments that testify to the original and authentic soul every child possesses. All Waldorf children, in principle can "go all the way" to do well at university. But as I said, it's not for every child, and problem behaviours are not cured miraculously by applying these teaching methods. Waldorf cannot be considered a dumping ground for children with poor aptitudes or wishy-washy parents. Waldorf in its essence is sorely misunderstood unless you study the development of the inner child, who is more than their brain.
I am so delighted to discover Anthroposophical presence here on Steemit! (Saw a part of the Goetheanum complex pass by, yesterday, on a photographer's blog gabyoraa)