Alabama Waldorf School
Curriculum Overview (subject to change based on needs of the students)
See chart below for Arts, Humanities, and Movement curricula.
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| Mathematics | Sciences | English & Grammar | Literature | Foreign Languages | Geography | History |
| First Grade | Whole numbers, four processes, counting, Roman numerals
| Nature studies | Capital letters, reading from own writing, phonics, short plays, choral recitations | Rhythmic poems, Fairy tales | Songs, games, poems, stories; colors, numbers, basic vocabulary | Nature through observation |
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| Second Grade | Times tables, columnar addition and subtraction, carrying and borrowing | Nature studies | Lower case letters, reading typed print, cursive, plays, speech and recitation, phonics | Legends and animal fables, tales of saints | Days, months, seasons, fables, family vocabulary | Environment through observation |
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| Third Grade | Measurement, time, long division and columnar multiplication | Farm life, food production, habitat | Simple grammar and writing, speech work, plays | Tales of the Hebrew Bible, poetry, reading | Conversations, time, food, basic grammar, complex commands, simple stories | Habitat, farming, clothing | Hebrew stories as part of ancient history |
| Fourth Grade | Word problems, averages, fractions, factoring
| Human & Animal: | Parts of speech, grammatical rules, writing poetry and stories | Norse sagas, poetry, African, Creek, and Cherokee legends | Writing, reading, plays, verb tenses, spelling, short dictation | Map making from classroom to home, region | Alabama history, Native Americans |
| Fifth Grade | Decimals, fractions, mixed numbers, reciprocals, freehand geometry
| Zoology: lesser known animals, | Active and passive, subject and predicate, syntax, writing | Greek, Indian, and Egyptian mythology, biographies | Literature, grammar, proverbs, conversation | United States geography | India, Persia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Africa |
| Sixth Grade | Percentage, ratio, money interest, proportion, business math, freehand geometry
| Physics, geology, mineralogy | Grammar, descriptive and expository writing | Tales of chivalry, poetry, ballads | Literature, history, grammar, geography, conversation | North and South America | From ancient Rome through the Middle Ages |
| Seventh Grade | Business math, graphs, algebra, perimeters, areas, powers
| Chemistry, | Creative writing, research papers, business letters | Arthurian legends, historical novels, poetry | Reading, writing compositions, conversation, grammar, biographies | Africa and Europe, map reading | 1400 – 1700: Exploration, Reformation, Renaissance |
| Eighth Grade | Practical mathematics, percent, equations, plane and solid geometry, and algebra
| Organic chemistry, | Grammar, compositions, business and practical writing | Shakespeare, epic and dramatic poetry, folklore | Sentence structure, reading and retelling of stories, review of learned material | World Geography, global contrasts, global commerce and economics | 1700– present: Revolutions: French, American, Indian, Industrial, Civil Rights movement |
Alabama Waldorf School
Curriculum Overview
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| Drawing | Painting | Handwork | Modeling | Movement Education |
| Music |
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| First Grade | Curves, straight lines, patterns, alphabet, fairy tale pictures | Wet brush on wet paper painting using primary colors | Finger knitting, two needle knitting, cast on, bind off, finishing | Beeswax: simple figures, scenes from fairy tales | Seasonal games, cooperative games, circle games and activities, jump rope, hand clapping games, simple dances |
| interval flute, seasonal songs |
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| Second Grade | Symmetry, mirror drawing, running forms, animals from fables | Painting using secondary colors, animal and plant forms | Purling, increase, decrease, combine knit and purl | Beeswax: scenes from fables, legends, etc. | Tumbling, hop scotch, jump rope, hand clap games, Weaving in and out of the circle, improving basic gaits, circle dances |
| Pentatonic flute, folk songs, simple rhythms |
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| Third Grade | 4 quadrant symmetry, metamorphoses
| Nature paintings, Old Testament images | Crochet – chain, single, double, seaming | Beeswax: scenes from main lesson work | Ring games, line games, circus arts, jump rope, circle dances |
| Diatonic flute, octaves, rounds, basic notation, rhythms |
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| Fourth Grade | Interlocking and negative forms, Native American motifs, Norse myth illustration
| Local landscapes and animals | Cross stitch, embroidery, braiding and cords | Clay modeling: animals, geometric shapes, etc. | Running, jumping and throwing games, obstacle courses, athletic lead-up games, improve posture and running forms, folk dances, native american games |
| Notation, time values, major and minor third |
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| Fifth Grade | Freehand geometric drawing, dynamic drawing, illustration of Greek, Indian, and African myths | Greek and Indian architecture, work from darkness into light | Five needle knitting: felted slippers. | Clay modeling: Greek vases, clay tablets Plant shapes | Greek games: javelin, discus, long jump, sprint, Greco-Roman wrestling, focus is on form and appreciation of movement |
| Major and minor scales, harmony |
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| Sixth Grade | Exact geometric drawing, black and white drawing
| Landscapes, color contrasts | Hand-sewing, pattern design, quilting | Bas-relief in Roman style | Circus arts, archery, team sports, fencing with staves, teamwork games and activities |
| Descant, alto and tenor recorders, string and wind instruments |
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| Seventh Grade | Perspective drawing, platonic solids
| Transparent colors | Waldorf dolls | Clay modeling: hands, feet, bones | Track and field, juggling, fencing with staves, teamwork games and activities |
| Choir, middle school orchestra, recorders |
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| Eighth Grade | 3-dimensional drawings, volumes
| Space in color | Machine sewing, weaving | Human head in clay | Fencing, teamwork activities, team sports, track and field continues |
| Choir, middle school orchestra, writing music |
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