Windows on Waldorf: A dynamic open house experience

Windows on Waldorf: A dynamic open house experience

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be a Waldorf student or why we say experience drives learning, come and feel it for yourself. At WSP we are intentionally differentso why would our open house be the same as all the others? Join us for a one of a kind event with demo lessons, interactive experiences and a High School student panel. 

Demonstration Lessons include:

  • High School Science & Humanities demo lessons
  • Eurythmy through Grades 1-8 (for parents/guardians only)
  • Developing mathematical thinking through Grades 1-8 (for parents/guardians only)
  • Scientific thinking through a botanical lens (for parents/guardians only)

WSP Curriculum Explorations include:

  • Blacksmithing
  • Stone carving
  • Bal-A-Vis-X movement
  • Musical performances
  • Fiber arts display

Join us for a one-of-a-kind event with demo lessons, interactive experiences, and a high school student panel.

This event is intended for all parents or guardians. Students entering 7th grade and above in fall 2024 are also invited and are encouraged to attend our high school demonstrations.
While infants in arms are always welcome, this event is not intended for younger students.

Advanced registration required.

The Garden Gate: Acorns, Frosts, and Composts

The Garden Gate: Acorns, Frosts, and Composts

by by Phil Dwyer | Earth Arts Teacher

Many crows gather early every morning under a large oak where I live. They take advantage of the cars squishing the acorns that fall in the residential parking lot and driveway. A number of gray and black squirrels busily scurry around the trees’ bounty, too. Similar acorn enthused activity is taking place on our Mountain View campus among its oak trees in the middle school courtyard. Deciduous trees are shedding their leaves. Plants are generally withdrawing from their outward spring and summer growth, as if retreating back into the Earth. We’ve had our first frosts in the garden, which seem to herald that the formative, crystalline forces will rule for the months to come, rather than the curvy biomorphic forms of the dynamic growth forces of the warmer months.

Many biodynamic (BD) farmers capitalize on the shift of energies into the earth during this time of year. Compost yards fill up with new piles of biomass to ferment and transform over the winter. The digesting activity of blooms of countless microorganisms (trillions per “handful” of now steaming biomass) heat up the compost heaps.

Pictured above is a recently created “fresh” compost pile of several cubic yards of biomass (approximately 10’x5’x5’), which will probably yield a couple of yards of finished compost.

As if to confirm the legitimacy of the compost thermometer, many students often thrust their hands into the compost heap to feel it for themselves. (We always wash our hands after every gardening class.) They can attest that things are heating up even though the days are getting cooler. In the Spring, wheelbarrows of transformed compost humus will return to the school’s garden beds to enliven our clay soils and join with the plants in their dance of photosynthesizing the sun.

Many BD farms craft a specialized compost made from cow manure. Students are pictured here taking turns “stirring” fresh manure and mixing it with pulverized egg shells, rock mineral dusts, and diatomaceous earth. It all got buried in a brick-lined pit where the five BD compost preparations—made from chamomile, yarrow, dandelion, nettle, oak bark, and valerian—were added. When this all eventually turns to humus it will become a unique compost concentrate, which will be an incredible catalytic aid for the formative and growth forces of the living realm of our campus. We eagerly look forward to putting it to good use!

High School & Middle School Tour

High School & Middle School Tour

Coming to one of our campus tours or open houses is a wonderful opportunity to learn about Waldorf Education and experience our school.

We offer small personal or group tours to catch a glimpse into the unique Waldorf approach to education which our our high school and middle school students experience. These provide opportunities to meet faculty and current students, view student work, tour our campus, and participate in question & answer sessions.

As our tours take place when classes are in session, they provide prospective high school and middle school students and parents a rare opportunity to visit and observe active classes. There is no better way to experience the spirit students and teachers bring to their work than to see them in action during the school day. We invite you to come take a look.

All visitors must provide a negative COVID test from the same day, and have no symptoms of illness.

Please click here to reserve your spot today!

High School & Middle School Tour

High School & Middle School Tour

Coming to one of our campus tours or open houses is a wonderful opportunity to learn about Waldorf Education and experience our school.

We offer small personal or group tours to catch a glimpse into the unique Waldorf approach to education which our our high school and middle school students experience. These provide opportunities to meet faculty and current students, view student work, tour our campus, and participate in question & answer sessions.

As our tours take place when classes are in session, they provide prospective high school and middle school students and parents a rare opportunity to visit and observe active classes. There is no better way to experience the spirit students and teachers bring to their work than to see them in action during the school day. We invite you to come take a look.

All visitors must provide a negative COVID test from the same day, and have no symptoms of illness.

Please click here to reserve your spot today!

High School & Middle School Tour

High School & Middle School Tour

Coming to one of our campus tours or open houses is a wonderful opportunity to learn about Waldorf Education and experience our school.

We offer small personal or group tours to catch a glimpse into the unique Waldorf approach to education which our our high school and middle school students experience. These provide opportunities to meet faculty and current students, view student work, tour our campus, and participate in question & answer sessions.

As our tours take place when classes are in session, they provide prospective high school and middle school students and parents a rare opportunity to visit and observe active classes. There is no better way to experience the spirit students and teachers bring to their work than to see them in action during the school day. We invite you to come take a look.

All visitors must provide a negative COVID test from the same day, and have no symptoms of illness.

Please click here to reserve your spot today!