Many parents visiting our Early Childhood classes feel an instant, intuitive connection and often say, “I wish I had gone to a school like this.”

The room is warm, colorful, cared-for and filled with a variety of nature’s beauty — a place where children can let their imaginations roam while feeling reassured and protected.  Play is the heart of the Waldorf Early Childhood program.  Through free imaginative play, children not only develop social skills, but also the capacity for creative thinking and problem-solving.  Simple, natural materials—pieces of wood, seashells, beeswax and handcrafted toys—encourage children to form their own games and stories.  Each morning, the children are invited to help prepare the food for their snack table.  In addition to nourishing their souls, chopping the vegetables for the day's soup or kneading the dough for the fresh bread is a rewarding way to facilitate the children's expanding fine motor skills.  Each day, in circle, the teacher engages the children in their lesson by sharing a seasonal story.  The use of movement and music enhance these beautiful  stories.  The children sit quietly and listen intently to the details of each story.  Through repition of verses and songs, they learn the rhythm of the day, and through the use of wet on wet watercolor painting and modeling, they are introduced to art.  German is introduced one day a week  in the Early Childhood classes.

The White Mountain Waldorf School offers two-day, three-day and five-day Early Childhood programs for children two to six years.