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Inside our school

The environment is carefully prepared to create an atmosphere of inspiration for learning.

Children at a harvest festival

The classroom

Our classrooms are simple and inviting spaces filled with soft colors, flowing play silks, and a nature table curated with seasonal items and handcrafts. Our furniture is wood and we have warm, cozy wool rugs inside our classrooms where we gather for stories, songs and puppet shows.

Rhythms of the day

Teachers softly guide transitions with song as they move between organized activities such as grinding oats and watercolor painting into free play, honoring play as the child's work. Each weekday has its own organic whole grain at snack. The children come to know Monday as rice day.

The play yard and the farm

We have an expansive yard with big trees, a large organic garden, natural wood climbing structures and old-fashioned toys. Alongside it, our farm animals - goats and chickens. Working in the garden and caring for the animals brings children close to the processes of life.

A community, not just a school

Every season is marked with a festival. Family life is nurtured alongside the child's. With parent education and support, our celebrations are offered both in and out of school hours.

Truth

Teachers who see each child as an individual, and teach intuitively in a loving, mindful way.

Beauty

Our classrooms are painted in warm colors, filled with play things of natural materials that let imaginations soar.

Goodness

Coming together in community with families invited to take part in festivals through the year.

Our story

A century of Waldorf education

Boulder Waldorf Kindergarten & Preschool is part of the international Waldorf education movement, founded in 1919 by the Austrian philosopher, educator and scientist Rudolf Steiner. The Waldorf curriculum is based on sound principles of child development and endeavors to nourish all aspects of the human being — the integration of arts and sciences encouraging wholeness in perspective and creative thought in action. More than 900 Waldorf schools in 80 countries make it the largest independent educational movement in the world.

A farm that grew with the school

Our farm started with the inception of the school and has grown with it ever since. Helping care for our goats and observing the chickens along with working the organic garden and eating the vegetables brings each child close to the processes of life. We farm biodynamically — an organic, holistic practice developed by Rudolf Steiner himself — and the children are part of the balance created here: their enthusiasm for seeing the plants and animals grow feeds the livelihood of the farm as a whole.

Faculty & staff

Meet the teachers and staff who make Boulder Waldorf Kindergarten what it is.

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