The Pentathlon Beckons By Jason Burnstein, Movement and Games Teacher Every year I sit down to reflect on the Pentathlon and I must admit that after 13 years of writing about it, I feel that I begin to repeat myself. …
Annual Back to School Event and Open House
Please join us for our annual Back to School Event and Open House coming up on Saturday, November 4, from 10:00 am – 12:30 pm. You will have the opportunity to experience Waldorf education first-hand, furthering your understanding of how the …
This Week in First Grade: Science!
This Week In First Grade: Science! By Sarina Partridge, First Grade Teacher This week, we continued our nature studies with stories of spiders, frogs, caterpillars, butterflies, beetles, and earthworms – oh my! The children are so eager to learn about …
Meet Our Circus Mentors: Brian Evans
Meet Our Circus Mentors: Brian Evans “When we can experience something together we are reminded how connected we truly are, and experiencing wonder in a stranger’s eyes makes them less of a stranger. I hope we can all find our …
Juggling Benefits for Students
Beginning in sixth grade, all City of Lakes Waldorf School students regularly practice 3-ball juggling in Circus Arts class. Our movement and games teacher and circus director, Jason Burnstein, maintains the long term goal that every child who graduates from City …
We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: Questions About the Political Curriculum of the Waldorf School in the Wake of the Presidential Election of 2016
By Peter Lawton The recent presidential election has presented our nation with a new and very real opportunity to look deeply inside ourselves, to our cores, to question not only who we are but who we want to be. It …
Behind the Scenes of Eighth Grade
Behind the Scenes of Eighth Grade By Darcie Steeves, Eighth Grade Teacher While pots of stone soup simmer away on the first floor of our school building, many things are afoot up all of those steps to the third floor. …