“If you’ve had the experience of binding a book, knitting a sock, playing a recorder, then you feel that you can build a rocket ship — or learn a software program you’ve never touched. It’s not bravado, just a quiet confidence. There is nothing you can’t do.”
Curriculum
Core
- ENGLISH - Based on world literature, biography, myth and legend
- HISTORY - Exploration of the worlds’ great civilizations
- SCIENCE - Geography, geology, botany, animal studies, astronomy, meteorology, physics, chemistry and life science
- MATHEMATICS - Developing competence in arithmetic, algebra and geometry
Special Subjects
- HANDWORK - knitting, crochet, sewing, cross-stitch, embroidery, felting and woodworking
- MUSIC - singing, pentatonic flute, recorder, string instruments, symphonic and choral ensembles
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE - French and Latin
- ART- painting, drawing, beeswax and clay modeling, perspective and form drawing
- GAMES & MOVEMENT- Cooperative games, organized sports and daily recess
- GARDENING - planting, harvesting, tending the garden and composting
Grades 1, 2 & 3
Writing, reading, spelling, poetry, drama
Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
Form Drawing
Foreign language, watercolor painting, movement, physical education, handwork and crafts, music
Folk and fairy tales, fables, legends, Hebrew stories
House building, farming, and trades
Grades 4 & 5
Language arts, grammar, composition, poetry, drama
Fractions, percentages, geometric drawing
Form drawing
Local and world geography, natural history, botany
Foreign language, fine arts, music, physical education, handwork and woodworking
Norse and Greek mythology, Ancient India, Persia and Mesopotamia
Grades 6, 7 & 8
Creative writing, world literature, poetry, drama, biographies
Business math, geometry, ratio and proportion, pre-algebra, algebra
Cultural geography, physics, chemistry, physiology, geology, meteorology, mineralogy
Foreign language, fine arts, music, physical education, traditional dance, handwork and woodworking
Roman and medieval times, the Renaissance, the Age of Discovery, American and modern history
Community Service
