Curriculum of the Waldorf schools
The curriculum of the Waldorf schools includes the following subjects.[1][2][3] In both the elementary school and secondary school, most academic subjects are taught in “main lesson” blocks of 3-5 weeks. For these blocks, each pupil writes and illustrates a “main lesson book” representing the material learned in the block.[4] In Waldorf education writing and reading are introduced at age six or seven; Beginning with oral storytelling, a Waldorf child listens to and summarizes oral language. Then, using imaginative pictures of sounds (e.g. a snake shape for the letter “s”), the children gradually learn the abstract letter forms, and move on to phonetics, spelling, grammar and punctuation. After recording their own stories and illustrations in personal books, children learn to read from the words they wrote themselves. In secondary school, there is an increased focus on literature. [5] Formal instruction in numeracy begins at age 6/7 with the four primary operations of arithmetic.
