Maypole Song, ” Here’s a branch of snowy may,
A branch the fairies gave me.
Who would like to dance today
With the branch the fairies gave me?

The beautiful Maypole celebration and potluck picnic at Hillcrest Park was a delight.  The famous and adored family musician duo from GirlFish Music Leah Salomaa and Sahra Featherstone accompanyied our talented ECE faculty. Fairy wings, Peter Pan Hats, daisy garlands, picnic baskets were brought and bread was broken with the Waldorf community.
 
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From the Garden is the AHWS ECE Newsletter – This Spring edition includes:
- Instructions for a simple, beautiful butterfly
- Biography of a Waldorf Nursery Teacher – Diana Miklos
- Parent education with Gordon Neufeld
- A bit of history about Alan Howard
- Waldorf in the home - the senses
- Festivals Family and Food - book review
- Announcements and healthy recipes
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The students at AHWS celebrated Earth Day in a variety of ways. The morning began with a ceremony in the ravine to honour the earth. The children had painted the rocks and each grade is represented by a colour. Daily experiences with the outdoors and with natural materials develop a personal bond with nature and cultivates a respect for the environment.
The rest of the morning was clean up time. Each grade was assigned an area of the ravine and …

The students of AHWS sang O’Canada loud and strong in French and English and cheered for the athletes and Mayor Miller at the Torch Relay Ceremony marking Canada’s participation in this year’s Commonwealth Games.
This beautiful spring Monday morning begins Earth Week. Our school will acknowledge the earth in numerous ways. Today, Grades 4, 5 and 6 went on a bike trip to explore the Don Valley. On Thursday students will be supporting the Mayor’s clean up initiative by …

AHWS students from Grade 3 to Grade 8 will be singing, “O Canada’ for the Torch Relay Ceremony marking Canada’s participation in this year’s Commonwealth Games on April 14th. At 3:00 pm the students will cheer on the athletes. At 3:30 pm Mayor David Miller will welcome athletes followed by AHWS students singing O Canada to close the ceremony.
Grade Six play April 15th.

The Grade Eight year at AHWS is highlighted by a series of very special initiations in which the students are challenged to step up to a specific task with both courage and creativity. These challenges include the Grade Eight Trip, the Grade Eight Play and most recently, the Grade Eight Projects.
The Grade Eight Projects are independent projects in which each student must follow three criteria: 1) Choose a topic for which you have a real …

Coffee House 2010, excerpt from Feb.25 Voice Newsletter:
As usual, the evening walked the edge of spontaneity and casual informality.
The children are summoned in a seeming random way,McCombe MC-ing, up to the stage for the piece they may have honed for months, or they might have slapped together that day — and the really beautiful thing is that it is not always easy to tell which was which! Talent emerges under pressure for some, and there were so many moments …

New total on funds raised: $6,500.00
The blanket is on display in the foyer. It measures 40 x 48. Raffle tickets are $10.00. The draw will take place on Earth Day April 22nd.
The Knit-a thon for Haiti was a beautiful success. Students and faculty from Grade One to Eight gathered in the gymnasium and knitted red and blue squares for one hour.
The blanket has been stitched together by the faculty and admin and will be auctioned off to raise additional …

ECE Newsletter
Welcome to the first issue of the AHWS newsletter celebrating the special time of early childhood.In this issue, we hear from a past Kindergarten teacher on the value of establishing dependable rhythms in the home, and get to take a peek into the path that brought one of our teachers to AHWS. Also included, are things that just might prove to be useful, like Breakfast made the night before, and a seasonal craft that many of us know and …

In the Northern Hemisphere, we are moving into the stillness of winter and the season of festivals and celebrations. Since ancient times, winter has been seen as a time for looking forward to the return of the sun, new growth, and light of spring. At AHWS we celebrate our inner light with festivals to remember that which lights the darkness of the season. Not only do we reflect on the changing of the season, we look to our …