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Woodworking in Waldorf education is important because it engages the whole child in a creative activity.

Through music we refine the capacity to connect. To harmonize. To resolve dissonance. To heal. To think. To feel. To mature. To make sound judgement. To vibrate. To tune. To move about the world with wholeness. To develop and hold onto that sense that the world is good.

The beginning of the school year is marked by our traditional Rose Ceremony. Each first grader is welcomed with a rose by their twelfth grade “special friend”, marking the beginning of a wonderful journey through the grades.

Waldorf education recognizes the importance of beauty: all work is imbued with color, form and texture that should be pleasing. The teacher uses stories to introduce the qualities of the colors as well as to develop new skills such as handling of the brush, paint, and paper.

A highly informative and emotionally engaging portrait, “Why Waldorf” includes interviews from teachers, students, alumni, parents, doctors, authors and scholars, combined with beautiful and compelling visuals of students in action, stunning artwork, and alumni who express their poised and optimistic take on the future.

In a Waldorf School, the children study music, starting with kinder lyres and pentatonic flutes or recorders in the early grades. Teachers may use songs already familiar to the children or write original pieces. Flute playing helps develop finger dexterity and a sense of class cohesion. By the end of the year many children play individually or in small groups in front of the class.

Chalkboard drawings created by Grades' teachers are a unique aspect to Waldorf education. It brings not only beauty and art into every classroom but also often represents a timely theme studied in the class.

We are offering 2 Waldorf Summer Camps: one for preschool & kindergarten age children and one for grades 1-8. Enrollment is by the week.

Our school year came to a close with a beautiful sharing of poems, instrumental music, and singing in various languages, by each of the classes at our final Assembly. We wish all our families, students, teachers, and staff a rejuvenating summer filled with joy, laughter, and memory-making moments.

Our High School Senior Class performed the play "Women" which is a comedic, modern twist on the beloved classic. It was directed by Paul Turbiak. Their drama class included designing props & costumes, light & sound, and all aspects of theatre production.

At a Waldorf School, music education is part of the curriculum. At our End-of-Year Assembly, the High School Hand Bell Choir performed "Clocks" by Coldplay, arranged by Keith Richards, and directed by Evan Hart, one of the school's music teachers.

Our 7th graders performed "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare, in full Elizabethan English, for parents, staff & faculty. They all did an amazing job!

Our Middle School students participated in the annual Medieval Games; a day filled with challenges of courage, loyalty, nobility, and fortitude.

Our 5th Graders presented "The Ram of Phrixus" as their class play, culminating their studies of Greek mythology which has included reading a rendition of the Iliad.

In the Waldorf developmental curriculum, students in the 3rd grade study shelters from around the world. Each student chose and created one model shelter and presented what they had learned about that shelter to the class.