The goal of the Waldorf curriculum in the elementary years is to awaken the mind, heart and will of the growing child. These are the years in which every child is an artist at heart, and the teacher’s task is to infuse intellectual knowledge with aesthetic experience.

At the Waldorf School every day begins with the main lesson which lasts for one-and-a-half to two hours. Included in this period, especially in the earlier grades, are movement activities that incorporate learning math facts and developing concentration skills. The teachers engage the student artistically, descriptively, and dramatically. The children actively participate through questions, discussions, and written work in their main lesson notebooks. Specific skills such as reading, spelling, grammar, expository writing, arithmetic review and drill are reinforced through additional daily English and math periods. Oral language skills are carefully developed throughout the elementary school through choral speaking, individual presentations and dramatic productions. Form drawing, particular to Waldorf education, is a form of elementary geometry which at an early phase develops the child’s eye-hand coordination. By the eighth grade, the forms are complex; and the children surpass most adults’ ability to create these drawings.

Specialty teachers supplement the work of the class teacher by working with the children in French, German, singing, orchestra, eurythmy, handwork, woodworking, art, social dancing and physical education.