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This is my Place and Time.
The teacher of the fourth grade class increasingly experiences the children as emerging individuals with strong personalities and distinctive gifts and talents, as well as challenges.
* Focus on group activities draws the class together as a social whole: plays, movement lessons, games, stage performances and the ‘week in residence’ at Black Creek Pioneer Village all support this end.
* Students need a great deal of form to meet school tasks, both academic …

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 …

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 …

“It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. ” Julius Caesar 100 B.C. – 44 B.C.
Chalkboard drawing in the grade 6 class by Mr.Singh.
Why Waldorf? Enjoy an article written by Penny Marshall in the London Times Online called, Why British children are pushed too hard.
Coming Up! Basketball Tournament for Boys and Girls at TWS in Thornhill, February 5th and 6th.
On Wednesday evening, January 27th,  the Middle School, grades 6, 7, and 8 enjoyed the …

Our Grade 3 and Grade 4 classes have carefully and lovingly been tending to our sideyard’s garden, bursting with flowers, edible greens, squashes and a wide variety of vegetation. The third grade is involved with farming, gardening, house building, measuring, weighing, analyzing soils and other practical activities that develop and solidify their skills for scientific observation.

The Wonder of Plants: Green plants are the only living forms that have the extraordinary ability to produce their own food and therefore are also able to feed animals and human beings…
- excerpt from gr.8 main lesson book
‘The Waldorf approach differs from mainstream science education by which the teacher presents a hypothesis and the students prove it using a scientific method. This process is linear and does not stimulate thought and science is not flat knowledge, formulae, names. It …

“What, girls can’t run and play? That’s not fair!” Life was not easy or fair for girls back in the pioneer days. Imagine getting married in 4 years!   Every Fall, every year the grade four class spends a week at Pioneer Village completely immersing themselves into a life without plastic, without oranges, strict classrooms- dunce cap included, making candles with animal fat, carding wool and playing ‘old-fashioned’ games. It is a learning experience the children will never forget. In …

As we continue into fall, with the days growing continuously darker, the light (our own flame) needs more protection.  We make a lantern to safely carry our light through the dark, cold wintry world.  It may be small and fragile, but many lights shining in a procession together bring relief to the darkness.  This is the traditional way of celebrating Martinmas, the life of St. Martin (316-397, A.D.). The week before the Lantern Walk the students were busy collecting jars and making …

As a culminating activity for our reading of the King
Arthur stories in English class, the Grade Six students
were challenged to turn their favourite King Arthur story
into a ballad. We examined a number of ballads, both old
and modern, to discover how they were typically put
together.