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Like other Waldorf-inspired schools....
...we encourage the love of language through story-telling, puppet shows, songs, and verses. Hearing and speaking are an essential part of literacy development in the early years. We focus on the rhythm and the sounds of the spoken sentences and words. The children recite verses and retell stories and act them out. They bring the stories to life through crafts and pictures. Pictures become words, and the children begin to copy and write. Written words are further broken down into letters and phonological sounds in first grade using fairy tales. Thus the letters and their sounds become part of the story and are illustrated in a creative, connective, pictorial way. The letters are experienced and searched out in nature and through movement and various tactile tools and reinforced in more stories, movement and art. The children learn to read what they have written, creating their own stories to share with the world. It is an emotional and creative approach of teaching the whole child; head, hands and heart that is embodied in the Waldorf method.
Math is something to be experienced, not worksheets to be completed. The children dive into the quality of numbers through stories, art and life, once again using the whole child approach. Gnomes and squirrels help us to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. We build towers with groups of blocks and sing skip-counting songs while jumping rope in preparation to memorizing multiplication tables. Movement with numbers is very important. We count stitches and rows while knitting (a great precursor to coding!)
The importance of age appropriate learning is emphasised and the child's academic capacities are strengthened by educating the whole child with activities and lessons that inspire the head, heart and hands.
Sun Star Folk School is now enrolling for our 1&2 grade class for Fall 2024!
What We Offer…
...a school for homeschoolers, for folks who want something different
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Sun Star Folk School
WHERE CHILDREN GROW AT THEIR OWN PACE...
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