What methods are used to instruct language arts, math and science?
In the early childhood centers (ages 3-6), language arts is brought to the children mainly through storytelling (by the teachers and children). Math and science are brought through nature experiences, cooking, baking, stacking blocks, mixing colors in painting, and other activities naturally occurring in play. Lessons are not made of these; rather the child is free to explore and experiment without being questioned or lectured. In the early grades of a Waldorf elementary school, the children learn subjects through story, movement, experience and art. All four math processes are taught at the same time, beginning in the first grade, and relationships between the processes are highlighted through characterizing each in story form. All students in the grade school create their own textbooks, which become more and more detailed as the grades process. The information is brought orally by the teacher, who stays with a class from first through eighth grade, bringing subject matter in ways mos
