Sacuanjoche Kindergarten, a Waldorf Steiner school, recognizes that it is a young child’s nature to experience, explore and come to know the world through the senses and by physically ‘doing.’ Grasping this premise and using it to guide our work is essential for the practical application of Steiner Waldorf philosophy.

What is the Steiner Waldorf System?
Steiner Waldorf education is a path of self-development and training for responsible and enthusiastic participation in the world. The Steiner Waldorf Curriculum supports the child’s developmental stages and children experience the curriculum through repetition and rhythm, cultivating a sense of beauty, wonderment, and self-purpose through the lessons and the environment created within the school. A variety of academic and arts-integrated experiences develop sensory and motor skills, perception of self and the outside world. This cultivates trust, social skills, consciousness, and spiritual awareness. The social climate and the student’s behavior contributing to that climate are equally important to the students’ academic progress. The individual child is an integral part of the wider school community where adults and children of all ages work together with the older children acting as role models for the younger ones.