Classes
Our curriculum supports a multicultural approach that includes racial, ethnic and religious diversity. Many belief systems are studied with the utmost respect for all. We try to emphasize and support the local farming culture, local history, and the stories of the indigenous people of the region.
In addition to the comprehensive academic curriculum, all children receive training in vocal and instrumental music, nature studies, painting and drawing, woodworking (upper grades), handcrafts (e.g. knitting, crocheting, embroidering, sewing), gardening, games and movement education.
We offer small class sizes in each of our grades. Grades 1 – 8 are capped at 24 students per class with Kindergarten capped at 22 students.
First Grade
Introduction to writing through story and picture; phonics and sight vocabulary; fairy tales and nature stories; simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
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Second Grade
Expanded writing and reading; beginning grammar; fables, legends, & stories of good, kind people; arithmetic with larger numbers; numerical patterns and forms; times tables.
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Third Grade
Composition, reading, speech; creation stories; cursive writing; farming and gardening; shelter and building; arithmetic with complicated numbers and practical examples; measurement, grammar, reading and writing music.
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Fourth Grade
Composition, letter writing, alliterative poetry; grammar (tenses, more parts of speech); Norse mythology and other northern European sagas; Native American legends; local geography and history; fractions; animals in relation to…
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Fifth Grade
Composition and continuing grammar studies; mythology of ancient civilizations (India, Persia, Babylonia, Egypt and Greece); North American geography; botany; review of fractions, the metric system, decimals.
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Sixth Grade
Composition; public speaking; Roman and early Medieval history; European geography; geology; physics (optics, heat and acoustics); astronomy; constructive geometry; mathematical word problems; business math and algebra (interest, percentage, discount).
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Seventh Grade
Creative writing; Renaissance culture, the Reformation, the age of exploration; South American geography; physics (heat and mechanics); inorganic chemistry; nutrition and physiology; algebra.
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Eighth Grade
Practical writing; Shakespeare; history from the Age of Revolution to the present; world geography (Africa, Asia and Australia); physics (electricity and magnetism); organic chemistry, algebra; solid geometry; meteorology and climatology.…
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