by Ashley Brickeen | Admissions Director Nursery School -Grade 8 What are the children doing when they bake bread in Early Childhood? They are: developing fine motor strength and control: kneading the dough and shaping the loaves strengthens the hand muscles and...
Early Childhood
Benefits of Jumping Rope & Fun Games to Play with It
by Kerstin Pintus, Victoria Klocek, & Andrea Jordan | Grades Faculty Members Recently the first grade students have been making jump ropes by hand-twisting yarn into long ropes. They are so happy and proud about all the things they can do and create with their...
Welcome Our New Pedagogical Administrator for Early Childhood – Grade 8!
by Melanie Ingler | Communications Coordinator Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Ami C Evergreen, our new Pedagogical Administrator for Early Childhood - Grade 8. Born in Castro Valley and raised in Los Angeles, Ami was always on stilts, a pogo stick, or...
Executive Functioning and Waldorf Education
Admissions Director Ashley Brickeen reflects on Dr. Adele Diamond’s Common Ground talk on “The Essentials of Executive Functioning – Building the Skills to Flourish” and offers her thoughts on how Waldorf education supports the development of the four categories of executive function skills.
New Kindergarten Play Space Transformation
by Melanie Ingler | Communications Coordinator When the need arose this summer to create a larger outdoor play space for our kindergarten classes, WSP Substitute Gardening Teacher, and WSP alumnus (class of 2012), Sebastian Langen rose to the occasion. He designed and...
Warm Beginnings and Mornings Together in the Redwoods
A glimpse into this Spring’s “Mornings Together,” the Waldorf School of the Peninsula’s parent-child program held in a redwood grove.