Grades 1-3 Curriculum

Grade 1

• Introduction to writing and reading

• Writing sentences, stories and poems

• Fairy tales, folk tales, and nature stories

• Speech and Drama

• Arithmetic: an introduction to addition, subtraction, multiplication, division

• Math games, mental math, and form drawing

• Nature Study

• Spanish language

• Painting, beeswax modeling, drawing

• Handwork: Knitting

• Music: singing, recorder-playing

• Eurythmy (movement)

• Games

• Outdoor education: class campout on school grounds related to nature studies

Grade 2

• Reading stories and short books; improving letter and sound recognition

• Writing stories and compositions

• Fables, animal stories and legends of “saintly and heroic people”

• Speech and Drama

• The four arithmetic processes; place value, multiple digit computation,

• Mental math, math games and form drawing

• Nature study

• Spanish language

• Painting, clay modeling, drawing

• Handwork: Knitting

• Singing and recorder-playing

• Eurythmy (movement)

• Games

• Outdoor Education: class camping trip related to nature studies

Grade 3

• Reading books, introduction of cursive writing

• Phonetics and spelling, introduction of grammar

• Writing stories and compositions

• Hebrew legends (Old Testament stories), nature stories

• Speech and Drama

• The four arithmetical processes, long division and multiplication

• Measurement, money

• Study of practical life: house-building, farming, gardening, clothing

• Spanish language

• Painting, clay modeling, drawing

• Handwork: Crocheting

• Singing and recorder-playing

• Eurythmy (movement)

• Games

• Outdoor education: 3-day class trip to a bio-dynamic farm related to farming and gardening studies