“Waldorf education addresses the child as no other education does. Learning, whether in chemistry, mathematics, history, or geography, is imbued with life and so with joy, which is the only true basis for later study. Education grows into a union with life that serves Waldorf students for decades. By the time they reach us at the college or university level, these students are grounded broadly and deeply and have a remarkable enthusiasm for learning. Such students possess the eye of the discoverer, and the compassionate heart of the reformer, which, when joined to a task, can change the planet.”
—Dr. Arthur Zajonc, Professor of Physics, Amherst College
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Greenwood’s Waldorf-inspired curriculum is based on Rudolf Steiner’s research into the threefold organization of the human being — head, heart, and hand — and the developmental stages of childhood. Awakening a love of learning is at the heart of Greenwoods program and school culture.
Greenwood’s Waldorf–inspired 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’s Waldorf–inspired 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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As in classic Waldorf education, our block teachers — or main lesson teachers in grades 1-8 — journey through the grades for several years or more with a class, providing guidance, insight, and continuity in the learning process.
To ensure the optimal learning opportunity for each child, Greenwood School’s policy requests that children do not watch television or use the computer on school nights. Please see Greenwood’s Media Policy.
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