Enjoy time with your child and other families as each week we gather to share play time, craft time, circle time with songs and rhymes, a wholesome snack, story time, and outside play.

This early childhood education program has been created in order to respond to the desire by families for support and companionship in the early years of parenting. The program offers support in creating a nurturing, rhythmical environment for the children as well as time for parents to observe their children in order to deepen their own intuitive knowledge and discover new ways of being with their children.

Waldorf Early Childhood work is based on the ideas of Austrian Dr. Rudolf Steiner. The themes we will be working from are these:

• Young children learn through imitation.
  
• Rhythm in the home and school life helps the child feel secure and builds an inner self discipline.
  
• Children need the protection of the senses in the early years and deserve to be surrounded by goodness and beauty.
  
• Children's play is their work and is an important part of their healthy development.
  
• Play connected to the seasons of the year as much as possible is wholesome for the young child and engenders a love of our Mother Earth.
  
• Our children are our greatest teachers.
  

Now enrolling for Winter & Spring 2010

Please call the school at 253-383-8711 or email enrollment@tacomawaldorf.org for schedule and enrollment information.