Nursery and Kindergarten

"There is no solid research demonstrating that early academic training is superior to the more traditional, hands-on model of early education."

–David Elkind, child psychologist and author of the groundbreaking books The Hurried Child and Miseducation

Nursery and Kindergarten Programs

Our mixed-age nursery and kindergarten classes provide a bridge between home life and school.

Our nursery class generally includes children from almost 3 years old to young 4 year olds.
Kindergarten classes include children from 4 year olds to 6 year olds.

We form our classes to meet to the needs of individual children and the groups as a whole. Children benefit from staying with the same teacher and class for more than one year.

Our three-day Nursery program runs from 8:30-12:30 M-W.
We offer four day (M-TH) and five day (M-F) Kindergarten programs that run from 8:30-12:30. We also offer an aftercare program until 3:00 for kindergarten students.

"I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true for human beings. We do not wish to see children precocious, making great strides in their early years like sprouts, producing a soft and perishable timber, but better if they expand slowly at first, as if contending with difficulties, and so are so solidified and perfected.
Such trees continue to expand with nearly equal rapidity to extreme old age."

--Henry David Thoreau, as cited by Jack Petrash in Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out