5th Grade
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The Waldorf School of LouisvilleJoin the Friends and Families of the Fifth Grade as they come together and Give for Good!
$1,946
raised by 12 people
$1,000 goal
“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.
The fifth grade is a milestone year in Waldorf Education
It is a Golden Age of Childhood, marked by the Pentathlon Games and new challenges intended to prepare students for the developmental and academic rigors of Middle School next year.
Fifth Grade Students delve deeply into ancient cultures, living intimately with stories of India, Persia, Babylon, Egypt and Greece. Each creation story brings a different twist. New and familiar perspectives are compared in how these cultures approached the fundamental questions of life. Closer to home, studying North American geography gives an opportunity to delve into how native cultures worked with their environments and how cultures and environments connect us across borders.
The study of botany, mixing poetic and artistic explorations of the plant world with scientific terminology and systems of identification, rounds out a curriculum that embraces the abundant energy of this age while honoring both their powerful imaginations and dawning analytical capacities.
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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