Greenwood School curriculum offers Preschool and Kindergarten children:
- A structured home-like environment to begin their school years in the preschool and kindergarten Early Childhood Program. Language arts are brought to the children orally through stories, songs, poems, and puppet plays, counting arises naturally out of the manifold tasks and activities of the day and sensory integration takes place through joyful movement and physical activities. Greenwood 's Early Childhood Program stimulates a child's natural interest in his or her environment and fosters powers of concentration, imagination, creative problem solving, and social skills that provide a sure foundation for a lifelong love of learning.
Greenwood School curriculum offers 1st — 8th grade children:
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- A rich, experiential, multidisciplinary, academic program, offered in three-to-four-week blocks, that provides a depth and breadth to learning. Subjects: language arts, including reading, writing, poetry, and literature; mathematics; the sciences; history; world languages; and geography.
- Enrichment and integration of academic learning through the visual, musical, movement, and dramatic arts, including singing, drawing, painting, modeling, orchestra, and eurythmy – an art of movement with speech and music.
- Integration of kinetic and sensory foundations for learning through games, physical movement, gardening, woodworking, handwork, and practical arts.
- A one-of-a-kind Nature and Environmental Studies Program — a field studies program where nature becomes the classroom every week — awakening a deep relationship with the earth, and a sure foundation for the natural sciences.
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