The Pentathlon: A Celebration of Childhood

City of Lakes Waldorf School Pentathlon

By Peter Lawton, Class Teacher “In an age when people have lost much of their innate understanding of childhood and its true relationship to the full course of life, it is important to give to childhood what belongs to it, …

2016-17 Calendar

Click here to view the 2016-17 school calendar of important dates.

Waldorf is…

“…knowing that my daughter is being taken care of on many levels. It’s a bit like having another branch of parenting happening when I drop her off and she walks through those doors. We made the switch to Waldorf in …

Are We on the Right Road?

Reflections on the Waldorf Alumni Panel By Peter Lawton, Class Teacher “The alumni panel is not so much an advertisement for Waldorf education as an opportunity for self-reflection, an opportunity to compare our ultimate hopes and dreams for ourselves and …

Sponsorship Bio: Bodylish

Jay and Nora Schaper began Bodylish with a mall kiosk at Southdale one Christmas season. Fifteen years later, it’s a full time job and you can find their handmade bodycare line online, at farmer’s markets and at Lund’s and Byerly’s all …

Grade 8 Language Arts Benchmarks

By the end of the year, students can:   Independently read a wide variety of young-adult-appropriate texts including non-fiction, magazine articles, newspaper articles, novels, poems and reports. Independently write all content in main lesson books Accurately summarize main lesson presentations …

Grade 8 Math Benchmarks

By the end of the year, students can:   •Manage the four processes with negative numbers • Create and interpret bar graphs, pie charts and grids • Understand and apply the order of operations rules • Solve basic algebraic equations …

Fifth Grade Skills

By: Darcie Steeves, Grade 5 Teacher The skills listed below are introduced, reviewed or mastered during the fifth grade year at our school.  I thought this would be useful in preparation for 6th grade. LANGUAGE ARTS mastery of reading and …

All School Meeting Presentation

On April 18, our Board of Trustees hosted our last All School Meeting of the year. We heard from Dan Nelson,  Treasurer, about the school’s finances, Caroline Askew, Admissions Director, about present and projected enrollment. Ann Burk, representative from the Development …