Written by Ona Wetherall, Early Childhood Section Leader One of the common threads in Waldorf education, which is especially focused on and talked about in early …

by Ona Wetherall Our youngest students’ curriculum is designed to support children’s instincts to be active and social while supporting foundational sensory development of balance (vestibular), …

by: Molly Brett In Waldorf Early Childhood education, we work to foster and strengthen the young child’s imagination.  We do this by focusing on many different …

Historically, early childhood education was developed for nurturing and cultivating a child’s natural propensity to learn through play. The focus of early childhood education was …

PLAY IS THE LENS THROUGH WHICH CHILDREN EXPERIENCE THEIR WORLD AND THE WORLD OF OTHERS

Play-based education provides children with the opportunity to develop social, emotional, physical and creative skills in addition to cognitive ones.

As part of our Mindful Parenting Series, a never ending favorite topic – Children and Chores

There is a widely-held belief that if we just start teaching children to write, read, and spell in preschool, they will become better writers, readers, …

The beauty of a play-based curriculum is that very young children can routinely observe and learn from others’ emotions and experiences. Skills-based curricula, on the …

For the typical American kindergartner, unstructured free play during the school day consists of 20 to 30 minutes of recess, and perhaps some time at …