Kindergarten
Waldorf Kindergarten Program:
The Kindergarten serves children from 4.5 to 7 years of age:
- Full day - 8:00 am - 2:45 pm
- Five-day-per-week schedule
After School Care is available from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm.
Please contact our Enrollment Director, Lara Chanley, at enroll@highlandhall.org for details and to answer any questions.
Waldorf Kindergarten Program:
The Kindergarten serves children from 4.5 to 7 years of age:
- Full day - 8:00 am - 2:30 pm
- Five-day-per-week schedule
After School Care is available from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm.
Please contact our Enrollment Director, Lara Chanley, at enroll@highlandhall.org for details and to answer any questions.
Literacy and Imagination
Literacy develops as the teacher leads the children on a daily journey of verse, song and movement thus building language, vocabulary, and motor skills. A hallmark of Waldorf education is the art of storytelling which allows the children to delve into their imaginations and travel on a rich, picturesque journey through the spoken word.
Meaningful Practical Work & Art
The children engage in activities that develop eye-hand coordination and manual dexterity. This practical work is integral to the day and includes such things as kneading bread, sewing, sweeping, chopping vegetables, and polishing wooden toys. In addition to watercolor painting, the children sew, finger-crochet, finger-knit, mold with beeswax, and do simple craft activities that are offered seasonally.
Creative Free Play
The teacher encourages healthy, creative play by providing the essential ingredients: silk cloths, play stands, stones, logs, simple dolls, capes, wooden figures, and puppets. Boards to build houses, stands for puppet plays, and balancing boards for obstacle courses are all incorporated into the rich spectrum of movement through creative play. Boys and girls alike have tea parties in the play kitchen or build spaceships from wooden planks, chairs and play cloths.
The Need for Outdoor Exploration & Discovery of the Natural World
At outdoor playtime the children are given ample opportunities to run, climb, dig in the sand and the earth, haul wheelbarrows, jump rope, play on the swings and play structures, slide, look for bugs and blossoms, and engage in imaginative play. The children are free to help with gardening projects, water the plants, sweep the patios, and take weekly nature walks on campus.
Creative free play allows the children time for self-directed exploration and discovery, and a myriad of opportunities each day to help them develop their sense of competence, industry and self-esteem, as well as social skills that will form an important basis for their grade-school success.
