Emotional Self-awareness
For your fourth-grader, the year ahead promises a new level of emotional self-awareness. Your child will become more independent, recognizing the separation between themselves and the surrounding world. You may notice a corresponding evolution in your child’s thought process as reasoning becomes more objective. Our fourth-grade curriculum is designed to support this new level of maturity.
For example, we study Norse myths, as they are particularly strong at imparting the gifts, and the risks, of free will. And we combine history with geography, to give your child a sense of the interrelated nature of space, time, culture, and the individual.
Third Grade Teacher Rosie Cole
Rosie Cole
Fourth Grade Teacher
Rosie first joined City of Lakes Waldorf School in 1993 and co-founded our Circus Arts Program. She studied at Evergreen State College and is completing her Waldorf certification at Rudolf Steiner Centre. She studied Waldorf movement education with Edmund Knighton, Waldorf Education at Rudolf Steiner College, and has attended Waldorf education classes with Helen Lubin, Leo Klein, Elena Baba and Dennis Klocek. Her circus, theater, mime, clowning and movement experience includes American Ballet Theater, Bond Street Theater Coalition, Alvin Ailey and Theatre of Fools. She has performed at The Fringe Festival, Guthrie Theater and Disneyland, among many others. She won the Minnesota Independent School Forum’s Story Award in 2012 for her extraordinary work at City of Lakes Waldorf School.