Waldorf Early Childhood

Our Early Childhood Program bridges home and school with a warm, steady rhythm. Children spend half their day outdoors in all seasons, and indoors enjoy activities like watercolor painting, baking bread, puppet plays, music, and storytelling. Our experienced faculty nurture imagination, curiosity, and focus, while building early developmental foundations, fine and large motor skills, memory, language, self-regulation, and more. Families may choose 3- or 5-day schedules, with both half- and full-day options available. We also offer Parent & Child Classes, which are a good way to experience Waldorf education with your 18 month to 3.5 year old.

We offer four classrooms in our program:

The Bluebell Garden – This classroom is for 3 and 4 year old students just beginning in a school environment. The program serves as an extension of home as they are gently led through a warm and nurturing day that includes plenty of outdoor time, free play and modeling of adult behavior. This classroom offers full day and half day options for 3 or 5 days a week.

The Dahlia Garden, The Lavender Garden and The Lilac Garden – These three classrooms serve children ages four through kindergarten. Our preschool students are learning academic capacities while also receiving mentoring from older children. Our kindergarten students experience the same program, but with different expectations from their teachers as they serve as mentors and helpers in class, and are often given different layers of activities from their younger peers. The kindergarten children are able to both learn and teach one another in a structured and secure, unhurried day. These classrooms offer full day and half day options for 3 or 5 days a week. Kindergarten students must attend (per Ohio Law) 5 days either half or full.