The Waldorf Curriculum

The Waldorf Curriculum for Grades 1-8 (PDF Download)

History, language arts, science, math, and history are taught in main lesson blocks of three to five weeks during the morning main lesson hours.

Primary Grades 1-3
Pictorial introduction to the alphabet, writing, reading, spelling, poetry, and drama. Folk and fairy tales, fables, legends, Old Testament stories, numbers, basic mathematical processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, nature stories, house building, and gardening

Middle Grades 4-6
Writing, reading, spelling, grammar, poetry, and drama, Norse myths, history and stories of ancient civilizations. Review of the four mathematical processes, fractions, percentage, and geometry, Local and world geography, comparative zoology, botany, and elementary physics

Upper Grades 7-8
Creative writing, reading, spelling, grammar, poetry, and drama, medieval history, Renaissance, world exploration, American history, and biography, mathematics, geography, physics, basic chemistry, astronomy, and physiology

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Grade 8 Curriculum