Waldorf second grade

I am very excited about our first day of second grade beginning tomorrow morning. Here is a sneak peak of our beautiful classroom. I am looking forward to another wonderful year with your children …

Second Grade Daily Schedule from City of Lakes Waldorf School in Minneapolis.

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Second graders are full of energy, fun, and a great sense of humor. They’re ready to learn, and they need playful lessons full of activity and stories to keep them engaged. In second grade it’s time to extend the academic lessons you began in first grade. The subjects are the same, but s

If you’ve been reading the blog for awhile, you know that I started out my Waldorf journey as a middle school teacher. In fact, I took three classes through the upper grades before teaching the lower grades. Now that I’m in 3rd grade with my 4th(!) class, the first one I’ve taken from the beginning, […]

Q: Why are verses spoken at the beginning of Waldorf painting lessons? (This post is part of a series in which we answer the most common questions we receive in our inbox re: homeschooling, Waldorf curriculum/pedagogy, and whatever else comes our way! Click here to read part one!) A: Ver

I have had some requests to share work from our Waldorf-inspired second grade home school. I became much more comfortable teaching this year, and because of this and the wonderful subjects we studied, we had a lot of fun! In the second grade traditional Waldorf curriculum children can really start to sink into reading and ...

Place Value in Second Grade In the autumn of second grade, we visited an apple orchard to introduce the base ten number system and place value. After we picked the apples, I asked students to count…

You can find Part One to this post here: I broke my “no-photographs” rule simply because there are not many blogs with examples of Waldorf Second Grade and I wanted to show some sample works. J…