Grades Three to Eight enjoyed a ski/snowboard trip to Mount St.Louis honouring a winter tradition at Alan Howard Waldorf School. For the first time in many years it wasn’t a chilly -34 but a balmy 2 degrees with a slight drizzle. The ski staff were professional and friendly and the resort was surprisingly quiet. The ski hills belonged to the students and teachers. Between many skating field trips, nature hikes, tobogganing and skiing the students at Alan Howard Waldorf …

VOICE Newsletter JAN 14 VOICE

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 …

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 …