Waldorf education offers a rich and diverse curriculum tailored specifically to meet the child at each stage of development. Please find a brief curriculum outline below for grades 1-3. The best way to experience a Waldorf classroom, however, is to see it in action! To schedule an observation visit or find out when our next open house is, contact us.
Grades Admissions Information and Application
Grade 1
Language Arts
Capital letters, reading, writing, phonetics, plays and recitations, poems, fairy tales, songs
Mathematics
Whole numbers, counting (by 1's, 2's, 3's 4's, 5's & 10's), four processes (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), Roman numerals
Sciences
Local birds and animals
Social Studies
Nature studies
Arts
Form drawing (curves, straight line, letters and numbers), pictorial recreations of main lesson stories, wet on wet painting, beeswax modeling of figures and scenes from stories
Handwork
Finger knitting, hand sewing, wool exploration (from sheep to yarn), 2-needle knitting (from needles made themselves), cast-on, bind-off, finishing
World Languages
Songs, games, basic vocabulary, colors, counting, stories
Movement
Seasonal games, cooperative movement, jump rope, clapping and jumping games, finger games (cats cradle), dancing
Music
Pentatonic flute by ear and imitation, seasonal songs
Grade 2
Language Arts
Lower case letters, reading, cursive writing, phonics, plays, speech & recitation, legends and fables
Mathematics
Columnar addition and subtraction (mental math), times tables, carrying and borrowing
Sciences
Animal tracks and wildflowers
Social Studies
Nature studies
Arts
Symmetry, mirror drawing, running forms, pictorial recreations of main lesson stories, painting using secondary colors, beeswax modeling of figures and scenes from stories
Handwork
Purling, increasing and decreasing, combining knit and purl, hand sewing
World Languages
Continued vocabulary building, days, months, seasons, family
Movement
Seasonal games, cooperative movement, jump rope, clapping and jumping games, hop scotch, dancing
Music
Pentatonic flute, folk songs, rhythm
Grade 3
Language Arts
Grammar and writing, plays, speech, stories, poetry and reading
Mathematics
Columnar multiplication (mental math), long division, measurement, time
Sciences
Farm life and food production
Social Studies
Ancient history and Old Testament stories, house building, farming, clothing
Arts
4 quadrant symmetry, metamorphosis drawings, nature painting beeswax modeling of scenes from main lesson
Handwork
Crochet (chain, single, double), seaming, hand sewing
World Languages
Basic grammar, time, food, conversation, commands, simple stories
Movement
Ring games, line games, circus arts, jump rope, circle dances
Music
Diatonic flute, octaves, rounds, basic notation, rhythm
