Developing Pre-Literacy Skills at Home: The Preschool Years

Developing Pre-Literacy Skills at Home: The Preschool Years

The environment and daily routines in your home can be one of the best teaching tools to help children develop pre-reading skills. A print-rich environment helps foster skills needed for reading. By surrounding your children with print in your home and talking to them about what it means, they will learn more every day.

The “M” word

The M Word - Montessori

My nephew recently moved closer to my mother and I. He moved from Oakville. With the move, the little guy also had to switch schools. He went from daycare to a Montessori school. Yeah. The “M” word. At least, it’s a swear word to any red-blooded true Waldorfian. I know my sister and brother-in-law made [...]

The Days Before Summer at Waldorf

School graduation

From the first day of school it’s the day that everyone looks forward to. Kids, Teachers alike. Maybe the parents, not so much, but I know the kids did for sure. They took everyday in. Appreciated it. Went through the yearly motions of the tests, field trips, sick days, snow days, late nights studying for [...]

Waldorf Art Tournament will fund trip

Every year at the Toronto Waldorf School, the grade 8 class come up with some creative idea to raise money in order to take a last journey as a whole unit before they all enter the high school stages of their life.  This year, the grade 8 class have come out with an awesome and [...]

A thanks to teachers who inspire

School children raising hands at classroom

I consider myself lucky. Not only have my boys had a year of school that has been inspiring to them, but so have I. It has been great to watch my older son spend hours on a school project, not because he has to, but because he is so into it, he doesn’t want t [...]

An education without limits

I never planned to put my two-year-old in private school.  A great one just showed  up at my doorstep–literally. I was a stay-at-home mom returning to college and, though his grandparents had volunteered to look after him, I was concerned about his limited social skills and exposure to adults other than family and friends. My [...]

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