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 …

Grade Seven is coming to the end of their Algebra and Geometry block. Over the 4 weeks we have worked with exponents, order of operations, signed numbers and all four arithmetic operations, simple equations with 1 variable, expressions with multiple variables, simplifying expressions and equations, the division of circles into 6, 12, 24, 4, 8 equal parts and the different designs you can make from each type of construction.
The Algebra work, which is very abstract and less grounded in the …

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 …