4th Grade Program
Our 4th grade program offers a balanced mix of traditional Waldorf thematic blocks with an engaging 21st-century approach. Students meet three times weekly for 90-minute sessions, exploring subjects such as language arts, math, history, and science through storytelling, artistic activities, and hands-on projects. This curriculum encourages curiosity, independence, and a love for learning while fostering social development and creative thinking. Ms. Laura’s class provides a nurturing environment where students can deepen their understanding and enjoy the wonder of discovery.
Grade 4
Our 4th grade program offers a balanced mix of traditional Waldorf thematic blocks with an engaging 21st-century approach. Students meet three times weekly for 90-minute sessions, exploring subjects such as language arts, math, history, and science through storytelling, artistic activities, and hands-on projects. This curriculum encourages curiosity, independence, and a love for learning while fostering social development and creative thinking. Ms. Laura’s class provides a nurturing environment where students can deepen their understanding and enjoy the wonder of discovery.
4th Grade
🎨 A Typical Main Lesson Rhythm
Each class follows a carefully designed flow that honors the natural unfolding of attention and creativity:
- 🌞 Welcome & Warm-Up
We begin with a morning verse, seasonal songs, movement, simple dances, recorder playing, and spoken poetry. This grounding rhythm connects children to the day, the group, and themselves. - ✂️ Review Through Free Rendering
Children retell or reflect on the previous lesson by creating images with construction paper—a playful and expressive method I call Free Rendering. It allows ideas to be revisited through form and color. - 🌱 Presentation of the New Concept
I introduce a new story, skill, or idea, often through rich images, storytelling, or demonstration. - 🧠 Practice
We explore the new material through guided exercises, oral work, movement, or artistic expression. - 🔁 Skill Refinement
Children revisit and strengthen a previously learned skill to deepen retention and confidence. - 📖 Main Lesson Book Creation
We end the core portion of our lesson by crafting a beautiful main lesson book page—a personal record of what has been learned, written and illustrated by the child. - 📚 Story Time
A closing story nourishes the imagination and ties the lesson into a meaningful narrative. - 🎵 Closing Verse or Song
We say farewell with a verse or song, leaving your child with a feeling of completion and warmth.
The Morning Lesson with Ms. Laura 