Teachers move up through the grades with their classes, providing continuity while developing a deep understanding of each student. Our curriculum is developmentally appropriate and creates intellectual, emotional and physical connections to learning, fosters creative thinking and compassionate feeling.

Academic subjects like history, language arts, science, and math, are taught in main lesson blocks of three to five weeks during the morning main lesson hours. These subjects are taught in an experiential way rather than from textbooks. The teacher presents each subject in diverse and imaginative ways. Art is a fundamental part of Waldorf Education and children learn to work with watercolor painting, drawing, beeswax and clay modeling. Specialty subjects are taught through the grades, which include foreign language, instrumental music, singing, dancing, handwork (knitting, crochet, sewing, weaving), woodworking and Eurythmy. A passion for learning is ignited within the students and success ensured.

Hip Hip Hooray! We made it to 8th grade!

**We will offer Grades 1-8 for the 2020-21 School Year**

The Early Years

1st Grade

Worlds of Enchantment : Fairy Tales & Legends

Living Letters: Writing & Reading

The Magic of Numbers: Roman and Arabic Numerals, Four Processes, Times Tables, Mental Math 

Nature Near & Far: Stories and Nature Immersion 

Drama/Speech: Class Play, Poetry recitation

2nd Grade

Tales to Remember: Fables and Legends, Saints and Heroes

Leaps in Literacy: Reading, Writing, Spelling

Number Patterns, Place value, Mental Math, Times Tables

Home Surroundings

Drama/Speech: Class Play, Poetry recitation

3rd Grade

Word Power: Reading, Writing, Grammar, Spelling

Working with Numbers: Measurement & Applications

Living on the Earth: Food, Shelter, Clothing

Meeting the World as individuals: Hebrew Legends 

Drama/Speech: Class Play, Poetry recitation

The Heart of Childhood

4th Grade

Gods and Heroes: Norse Myths and Sagas

The Creative Word: Reading, Writing, Spelling, Grammar

New Number Worlds: Fractions

Nature Study: Wonders of the Animal Kingdom

It Happened Here: Local History and Geography

Drama/Speech: Class Play, Poetry recitation

5th Grade

Myths of the Ancient World: India, Persia, Babylonia & Egypt

Our Classical Roots: Greek Myths, History and the Pentathlon 

The Art of Language: Reading, Writing, Vocabulary, Spelling, Grammar

Adventures in Arithmetic: Decimals & the Metric System

Geographical Explorations: North America

Nature Study: Wonders of the Plant Kingdom

Drama/Speech: Class Play, Poetry recitation

Middle School

6th Grade: 

The Art of Language: Reading, Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary

Making Math Meaningful: Business Math & Geometry

Roman History, Medieval History

Earth Science

Introductory Physics: Sound, Light, Heat, Magnetism, Electricity

Drama/Speech: Class Play, Poetry recitation

7th Grade

The Art of Language: Reading, Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary

New Horizons in Mathematics: Introduction to Algebra; cont. Geometry

European History: Renaissance, Reformation, & the Age of Discovery

Cultural Geography: The World and Its Peoples

Astronomy: Astronomers and their Discoveries

Biology: The Mysteries of the Human Body

Adventures in Physics: Electromagnetism; Mechanics

Introductory Inorganic Chemistry

Drama/Speech: Class Play, Poetry recitation

8th Grade

The Art of Language: Reading, Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary

Mathematics in Theory and Practice: Algebra; Geometry

World History: Revolutions Past and Present

Cultural Geography II: The World and its Peoples

Biology: The Miracles of Human Anatomy

Experimental Physics: Fluid Mechanics; Aeromechanics; Meteorology

Experimental Chemistry: Organic Substances

Drama/Speech: Class Play, Poetry recitation