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Waldorf 101

Specific Themes for Each Grade – Preschool to Grade Eight

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Preschool & KG Morning: Circle Time Verses (Finger rhymes and verses are very important for pre-math and pre-language abilities) Shaping Bread/Snack Storytime (Puppet show style, repetitive stories (like The Little Red Hen) and relational stories – stories about what children did yesterday, stories about their birth, stories about children like them or other children their age and […]

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Summary of the Needs and Rhythms of Each Age from Preschool to Grade Eight

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Preschool Theme: Rhythm, Repetition and Parent Modeling. Cultivate Parent Attachment. A toddler longs for rhythm, repetition and activities which feel safe. As a parent, you should continue on your daily rhythm or schedule and then slowly add a child, or two, or three within your daily activity. Contact other mothers while your toddler is napping […]

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Rhythm and Stages in Waldorf Education

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Waldorf is a form of education that works with the rhythms of the child, the day, the week, the month and the year. It works with the spiritual, emotional and physical rhythms of the body. It works with the rhythm of the earth – natural foods, toys and other materials are used in Waldorf education. […]

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The Importance of Free Play

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One of the major changes in education in the past twenty years has been the transformation of the preschool and kindergarten rooms from a child’s joyful creative play area into a mini-first grade rooms full of lessons and worksheets. Some government agencies around the world have even ruled that this is mandatory for the young […]

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Parent-Teacher Modeling

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A toddler longs for rhythm, repetition and activities which feel safe. As a parent, you should continue on your daily rhythm or schedule and then slowly add a child, or two, or three within your daily activity. Contact other mothers while your toddler is napping and arrange a play date at the park, or some […]

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Waldorf Philosophy

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“Your Children are not your children. They are the sonsand daughters of life’s longing for itself. They comethrough you, but not from you, And though they are withyou – yet they belong not to you. You may house theirbodies but not their souls. For their souls dwell in thehouse of tomorrow. Which you cannot visit. […]

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A Waldorf Main Lesson Book: Where are the Worksheets and Exams?

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Imagine a world with no quizzes, textbooks or worksheets. That sounds like it would be a dream school for most children! This is what it is like in a Waldorf school. In fact, Waldorf education engages the student in the learning process to the extent where worksheets or exams would actually interfere with their learning […]

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