Lower School Grades 1-4

“Is there a way to educate children that will help them develop into human beings capable of bringing peace to the world?”

More than 100 years after Rudolf Steiner dared to dream of a world healed by the innate goodness of children, Waldorf Education is a thriving global movement, deeply committed to the founding purpose of helping children become creative, independent, moral individuals who seek to do meaningful work with their lives. 

Children come to first grade full of curiosity and are met by teachers who foster the skills necessary to learn, work and play in an atmosphere of warmth and reverence.

The curriculum and experiences in the second grade year build on the foundation of first grade. The children enter second grade with an established relationship with their class teacher and a dawning sense of themselves as individuals, and as a member of the class as a whole.

The third grade curriculum speaks to the consciousness of the child who is turning nine. As this age, the child becomes more self-aware, and there can be a new sense of distance from the joys of early childhood

Fourth grade marks a clear change in the work the students do and what is expected of them. The habits and skills that have been developed are now put to use in tackling new and varied subjects.

WALDORF SCHOOLS HONOR AND EMBRACE 

HUMAN DIVERSITY AND DIGNITY

Waldorf schools celebrate the diversity of humankind. Faculty, staff, and board pursue a path of human dignity and equity in organizational, leadership, and pedagogical realms. Schools are engaged in understanding and addressing the current and historical roots of inequity. These endeavors are of spiritual, moral, and educational importance and are rooted in Waldorf education’s founding vision, which included addressing contemporary social struggles within the context of the life of the school.

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