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    At the heart of our curriculum is the teacher's relationship with each child and respect for his/her unique development and growth.

    Beginning in the first grade, teachers move up with their students each year. This provides consistency and security to the child's educational experience, based on the teacher's ever-growing knowledge of each child's academic, social and emotional development. Our teachers work to cultivate three fundamental qualities that form the basis for a life-long love of learning: reverence toward all that lives; gratitude and respect for the efforts and accomplishments of others; and responsibility for one's own self-disciplined action.

Incoming students at all grade levels usually adjust easily to the natural progression of the curriculum.

GRADE BY GRADE

Our school fosters a mutual respect among parents, teachers and children through our Parent Teacher Organization, seasonal festivals and performances, parent-teacher dialogue and education about Waldorf-inspired learning. Parent-teacher conferences are held twice a year to discuss each student's progress, and teachers write a detailed, end-of-year narrative for each child.

FIRST GRADE
Children are introduced to letters, the foundations of word formations and reading. Other activities include: fairy and folk tales, painting, drama, arithmetic (four processes), science through nature stories, singing, recorder playing, knitting, foreign languages and physical education through movement and games.

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SECOND GRADE
Students learn legends about animals and exemplary people in history, and they continue their instruction in reading, form drawing, painting, drama, arithmetic, science, singing, recorder, knitting, foreign language and PE. They also begin writing and crocheting.

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THIRD GRADE
Students learn about ancient history and cultures through Old Testament and Native American stories. In an addition to continuing to build on their earlier skills, students begin learning grammar,
measurements, practical studies of farming and building, skilled crafts, sewing and
gardening.

FOURTH GRADE
Students study Norse mythology, reading, grammar, composition, form drawing, clay modeling, painting, drama, arithmetic (including fractions), local history, early regional settlers, geography, natural science of animals, singing, music, knitting, crocheting, cross-stitching, foreign languages and PE.

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FIFTH GRADE
Students learn about ancient civilizations by studying Greece. They
continuing building on their existing knowledge base with lessons in: reading, grammar and composition; freehand geometric drawing; arithmetic (including decimals); United States geography; science
through descriptive studies of plants and exotic animals; singing; recorder; painting; drama; four-needle knitting; woodworking; foreign languages; PE (including Greek Olympic skills).

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SIXTH GRADE
In addition to continuing lessons in singing, recorder, painting, handwork
and PE, students study Ancient Rome through the Middle Ages; tales of
chivalry; poetry; ballads; grammar; descriptive and expository writing
(including business letters); debates; foreign language reading texts
(including humorous stories and free translation); geography of North and
South America; the configuration of the Earth; physics; geology and
mineralogy; and arithmetic, including percentages, money, table, charts and algebraic formulas.

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SEVENTH GRADE
History-Age of Exploration & the Renaissance
Mathematics-Algebra & Geometry
Language Arts-Composition, Grammar &
Descriptive Writing Physics-Mechanics
Science-Astronomy, Inorganic Chemistry & Physiology
South American & World Geography

EIGHTH GRADE details coming soon...

We are a publicly funded school that is non-sectarian and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin in the administration of its admissions or educational policies. Special education services available.