6510 Schroeder Road, Madison, WI, 53711 Telephone 608.270.9005

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Upcoming Opportunities to explore Madison Waldorf School

Open Houses
Saturday, Feb. 11 &
Saturday, March 3
10 am – 12 pm

Prospective families and curious parties are warmly invited to attend one of our open houses. We will be offering tours of the school, and faculty and staff will be on hand to answer any questions you have about our early childhood and grade programs. Come and find out how Waldorf education inspires a lifelong love of learning.

Morning in the Kindergarten
Saturday, Feb. 18th
9:00 am – 11:00 am

Madison Waldorf School invites families with children aged 2.5 – 6 to attend a special morning with teachers in our Waldorf kindergarten. Play, experience story and circle time, enjoy a tasty snack and create crafts with other families. Registration is required, please call our office at (608) 270-9005.

 

Weekly School Tours
Every Wednesday @ 12:30
Learn more about Waldorf education and what Madison Waldorf School has to offer your child with an overview of our curriculum followed by a tour of our school. Please call to reserve a spot.

February 8, 2012 | Categories: Event | Tags: , , , | Comments Off

Madison Waldorf Open House 2/11

Madison Waldorf School invites you to come find out how Waldorf education inspires a lifelong love of learning

Saturday, February 11th
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Madison Waldorf School
6510 Schroeder Road
Madison, WI 53704

Madison Waldorf School is hosting a monthly open house on Saturday, February 11th, from 10 am – 12 pm. Prospective families and curious parties are warmly invited to attend. We will be offering tours of the school, and faculty and staff will be on hand to answer any questions you have about our early childhood and grade programs.

The Waldorf educational philosophy is committed to nurturing the whole human. Our curriculum integrates arts and movement with a rigorous academic education to foster artistic expression, critical thinking, problem solving, athletic judgment, and sound reasoning. Waldorf graduates are creative and ethically aware young people intellectually prepared for the most demanding colleges, and eager to engage with the world around them. Waldorf pedagogy nurtures healthy emotional development by conveying knowledge experientially as well as academically.

For more information, call or email (608) 270-9005 or info@madisonwaldorf.org.

February 1, 2012 | Categories: Event | Tags: , , , | Comments Off

Screening of “The Greenhorns” tonight!

Madison Waldorf School is co-hosting a film screening of “The Greehorns: The New Farmers in America” 7 pm at the Fitchburg Public Library, 5530 Lacy Road in Fitchburg.

“The Greenhorns: New Farmers in America,” is a new film by Severine von Tscharner Fleming. It will be shown free of charge, and after the film Roger Cohee, the chair of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee of the City of Fitchburg, will give a brief explanation of their new program matching would-be farmers with landowners who will rent land to them. There will also be small group discussions led by representatives from all the groups sponsoring this event, (MACSAC: Madison Area Community Supported Agriculure Coalition, Madison Waldorf School, Sustain Dane, Trautman Family Farm, and Voss Organics) to give you a chance to explore the topics that the film brings up. The program will end by 8:50 p.m.

 

January 24, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | Comments Off

Open House Tomorrow (1/21)

Saturday, Jan. 21
Monthly Open House @ Madison Waldorf School
10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Madison Waldorf School is hosting the first of our monthly open houses tomorrow, Saturday, January 21st from 10 am – 12 pm. Prospective families and curious parties are warmly invited to attend one of our monthly open houses. We will be offering tours of the school, and faculty and staff will be on hand to answer any questions you have about our early childhood and grade programs.

The Waldorf educational philosophy is committed to nurturing the whole human. Our curriculum integrates arts and movement with an intellectually rigorous academic education to foster artistic expression, critical thinking, problem solving, athletic judgment, and sound intellectual reasoning. Waldorf graduates are creative and ethically aware young people intellectually prepared for the most demanding colleges, and eager to engage with the world around them. Waldorf pedagogy nurtures healthy emotional development by conveying knowledge experientially as well as academically.

Come and find out how Waldorf education inspires a lifelong love of learning!

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” -W.B. Yeats


January 20, 2012 | Categories: Event | Tags: , , | Comments Off

The Journey of Childhood – Thursday, 1/12

Thursday, January 12
Informative Presentation @ 7pm
The Journey of Childhood: Meeting the Needs of our Children through the Stages of Development

Madison Waldorf School
6510 Schroeder Road
Madison, WI 53711

Waldorf schools provide a detailed, richly artistic curriculum that responds to and enhances the child’s developmental phases, from early childhood through high school.  However, what are the phases of childhood?  How can the needs of the child be addressed by parents and educators alike?  Join us at the Madison Waldorf School on Thursday, January 12 at 7pm, for an informative talk with Corinne Lorian on the developing child. Corinne Lorian is a master Waldorf teacher, with experience in both the early childhood and grade school.  Currently a grades teacher at Prairie Hill Waldorf School, Corinne was also a founding teacher at Tamarack Waldorf School.  She has also taught at The Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor and other schools.

January 9, 2012 | Categories: Event | Tags: , , , , | Comments Off

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