“We are helping to keep Mother Earth neat and clean”

It is important to mark Earth Day in a way that takes form in the developmental stage of all children who still feel at one with all the elements. Children feel at one with all of nature. 

Listening to a Lakota Story of Mother Earth

Children completely sense nature with all the twelve senses.

Cleaning around their school area

Appreciation and groundwork is laid in the youngest years by just being outside and taking it all in.  Allowing them to be a part of nature and showing them the importance of keeping nature clean. 

Helping each other 

When you model recycling, reducing spending, and reusing things, your child will follow you. This affords the small child a positive way to help keep Mother Earth clean. 

Enjoying this Beautiful Earth day with lunch on the deck.  

Celebrations in Waldorf for small children are about the doing, not so much the words. We had a wonderful time this Earth Day by doing, creating, and being.  

Time for Planting

Gardening  has been a part of the Waldorf School curriculum since the very first Waldorf School in 1923.  This week the children began planting for their school garden. 

First Grade mixing and watering the mulch

Gardening allows the students to develop a deeper appreciation for and awareness of the human being’s relationship to the natural world.

Harlee, Teacher Joyce, Kaia planting seeds

By caring for the garden, experiencing the growth of plants, and harvesting what they give us, the students develop a deeper consciousness and appreciation for the earth.

Gardening allows students to develop a deeper appreciation and understanding for and awareness of the human being’s relationship to the natural world.

By caring for the garden, experiencing the growth of plants, and harvesting what they give us, the students develop a deeper consciousness and appreciation for the earth.

Each year when Easter comes, It is a very special festival for Waldorf Schools. As Easter approaches, the flowers spring up from the ground.  A beautiful time when natures language begins to speak to us.  

The green reminds us of hope in life and what we wish to have from life.  The color of Hope, wishing, and Joy.  

A school of life is what a Waldorf School intends to be.  The fact that life is now beginning to unfold outside makes Easter a festival that has a great impact on the school, on the children, on the teachers, and especially on the parents.  

Easter also marks the time when school is nearing an end.  The teachers, prepare to send the students off on their break after building a wonderful relationship throughout the school year.  

~A lecture from Rudopf Steiner March 27th 1924~