
Kindergarten
Welcome to the Waldorf Kindergarten!
Ages: 4 - 6 Year Olds
Building a Bridge Between Early Childhood and the Grades
Our Dandelion and Valerian classrooms are designed to provide children with abundant opportunities to do what they do best: learn through movement! Free play is the cornerstone of imagination, creativity, problem-solving, and social skills—foundations that set the stage for academic learning in the elementary years and beyond.
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Each day in our kindergarten classrooms is filled with enriching activities that engage children in meaningful ways. Artwork fosters a sense of beauty and wonder, while practical tasks build willpower and resilience, offering valuable life skills for their future. Circle time and story time help to develop attention span, speech, and language skills. Simple, yet purposeful, activities, such as tidying up and setting the table for snack, introduce pre-math concepts like sorting and ordering. These everyday routines seamlessly integrate learning into daily life.
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In our kindergarten, children are active participants in every part of the day. We place a strong emphasis on cultivating a harmonious, cooperative classroom culture where children learn to respect themselves, others, and their physical environment.

Benefits of Kinesthetic Learning
Kinesthetic learning encourages physical activity, bolsters cognitive, social, and emotional development, enhances the brain’s capacity to retain information, and develops capacities, strengths, and self-confidence.
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How Movement Benefits Learning?
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The part of the brain that processes movement is the same part of the brain that processes learning. Hands-on learning provides incredible developmental opportunities for young children.
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Creates new neural pathways which enhance memory and learning.
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Fosters brain hemisphere integration.
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Provides oxygen-rich blood that feeds the brain for optimal functioning.
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Enhances social skills and emotional intelligence.
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Improves the ability to handle stress.
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Exercises the muscles, heart, lungs, and bones.
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WE BELIEVE THAT LEARNING IS NOT JUST IN THE HEAD.
Key Highlights of our Early Childhood Program
A hallmark of Waldorf early childhood education is that all of the academic foundations the children learn are embedded in our experiential curriculum.
Self-regulation
Self-regulation emerges as children experience nurturing daily and weekly routines that provide predictability and comfort. Additionally, our classrooms offer a homelike, calm, and emotionally safe experience for children.
Fine Motor Skills
Fine motor skills, which help support manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination, are engaged daily through arts and seasonal crafts. These tactile activities include watercolor painting, drawing, beeswax modeling, finger knitting, and sewing.
Kinesthetic Learning
Kinesthetic learning occurs each day as the children are welcomed into a sensory rich environment in which whole body movement is encouraged during unstructured inside and outside free play, and structured activities led by the teacher such as circle time and clean-up time.
Speech & Language Skills
Speech and language skills are developed through participating in story time, puppet shows, plays, and circle time which are part of daily activities. Through exposure to fairy tales, nature stories, poems, and songs, children build a capacity for literacy in the areas of vocabulary, visualization, memory, and listening skills, as well as the ability to focus.
Social Skills
Social skills grow through imaginative and collaborative play. During free play children deepen their relationships through communicating with each other, and learning to share and resolve conflicts.
Gross Motor Skills
Gross motor skills develop, particularly during outdoor play, that lead to coordination, body control, and spatial awareness. Children are encouraged to run, jump rope, skip, climb, swing, balance, dig, build – and move!

Program Info
Kindergarten is five days a week.
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Half Day | 8:15 to 12:45
Full Day | 8:15 to 3:30
Extended Care | 3:30 to 5:30
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An organic snack is provided by the school daily in the morning and during the extended care program.
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Our small class sizes are intentionally designed to ensure that each child receives individualized attention and care from our teachers.
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1 Lead Teacher and 1 Assistant Teacher
1:9 Teacher to Student Ratio​
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Kindergarten students are between 4 and 6 years old.
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After kindergarten, children transition into our Grade School program with a strong foundation that prepares them for formal academic learning. To ensure that all areas of development are fully supported, children may begin 1st Grade if they are 6 years old by April 1st.
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