Kindergarten
For children turning six during the calendar year.
This is a special time for your child as she journeys through her fifth and sixth years of development. Until the age of six or seven, children learn primarily by imitation: by seeing and doing. As they are open to almost all influences in their environment, the first priority of a Steiner school Kindergarten is to create a warm, loving, homely environment in which children can thrive. The children are better served if intellectual work can be postponed. It is through the ‘hands-on’ activities in Kindergarten that the seeds for Primary School subjects are sown.
The Shearwater Kindergarten timetable consists of a rhythmical flow of different activities, which allow for both group and individual expression. These artistic, social and physical activities include painting, drawing, modelling, play-acting, puppetry, music, movement, singing, stories, poems, games, handicrafts, woodwork, cooking, gardening, animal care and creative play. Most afternoons the children have rest time.
In Kindergarten the children spend a good deal of their day engaged in creative free play both inside the classroom and outdoors. Play is to the child as work is to the adult. Through the vital activity of play, the powers of creativity, imagination and initiative are cultivated. The children explore and transform their environment as they make meaningful connections to the world around them.
This is a special time for your child as she journeys through her fifth and sixth years of development. Until the age of six or seven, children learn primarily by imitation: by seeing and doing. As they are open to almost all influences in their environment, the first priority of a Steiner school Kindergarten is to create a warm, loving, homely environment in which children can thrive. The children are better served if intellectual work can be postponed. It is through the ‘hands-on’ activities in Kindergarten that the seeds for Primary School subjects are sown.
The Shearwater Kindergarten timetable consists of a rhythmical flow of different activities, which allow for both group and individual expression. These artistic, social and physical activities include painting, drawing, modelling, play-acting, puppetry, music, movement, singing, stories, poems, games, handicrafts, woodwork, cooking, gardening, animal care and creative play. Most afternoons the children have rest time.
In Kindergarten the children spend a good deal of their day engaged in creative free play both inside the classroom and outdoors. Play is to the child as work is to the adult. Through the vital activity of play, the powers of creativity, imagination and initiative are cultivated. The children explore and transform their environment as they make meaningful connections to the world around them.