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Education of the Will

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 …
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Building Foundations in Early Childhood

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), …
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Nurturing the Young Child’s Creative Forces

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 …
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Why Play-Based Learning is Best in Pre-K and Kindergarten

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 …
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Play is crucial to a child’s development and well being.

PLAY IS THE LENS THROUGH WHICH CHILDREN EXPERIENCE THEIR WORLD AND THE WORLD OF OTHERS
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The Benefits of Play-Based Education

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

As part of our Mindful Parenting Series, a never ending favorite topic – Children and Chores
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When is the Right Time to Read, Spell and Write?

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, …
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Want to get your kids into college? Let them play

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 …
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Let ‘Em Out! The Many Benefits of Outdoor Play In Kindergarten

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 …
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Phoenixville, PA 19460
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PO Box 350, Kimberton,
PA 19442
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