First Grade
	The first grade curriculum focuses on fairy tales from around the world that address the students' inner growth and development. Using this literature as a foundation, the teacher plans exercises in reading, writing, and speech. First graders also draw, paint, model beeswax, and participate in simple dramatic productions based on the stories they hear. They learn the letters of the alphabet as forms and sounds and they learn to do simple arithmetic through movement exercises that involve stomping, clapping, and tossing of bean bags. By the end of first grade, they have been taught to manipulate numbers up to 24 with the four processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. First graders take regular nature walks and observe the daily and seasonal changes in the natural environment.

	Second Grade
	The second grader awakens to a greater awareness of the foibles of others. Fables and legends of great persons are told, showing the ability of the human being to overcome adversity. Reading in groups begins. The children's understanding of number quality is broadened through the study of place value (1-1000), and the children learn to add and subtract large numbers by carrying and borrowing. They continue to work with all four arithmetical processes and the multiplication tables. Regular nature walks in the woods and fields behind the school serve as a simple introduction to environmental science.

	Third Grade
	To strengthen the third grader's growing consciousness of self, creation stories from different cultures and stories from the Old Testament are told by the teacher. The study of farming, housing, building, and measurement provide a practical foundation for scientific exploration and draw the children closer to the earth. Grammar is introduced. The children continue to practice the four arithmetical processes and work with the multiplication tables. A week-long trip to a farm and a large class carpentry project round out a year of active learning.

	Fourth Grade
	As the fourth grader enters a new, more turbulent phase of childhood, students are immersed in Norse Mythology, in which they are confronted with dramatic consequences and deeds of courage. They also study the animal kingdom in relation to the human being. Native American stories provide a connection between history and local geography. Simple map making is introduced, as are fractions, long division, and simple geometric forms.

	Fifth Grade
	Compatible with this age, which is characterized by a special harmony and flexibility, ideals of beauty are found in the earliest cultures of ancient India, Persia, Egypt and Greece. Botany and U. S. geography are also studied. In arithmetic, calculatons with fractions continue and decimals are introduced. The year culminates with a multi-school reenactment of the ancient Greek Olympics that features javelin, discus, long jump, and running events.

	Sixth Grade
	Seeking justice and cohesion in the world, the sixth grader is met with the law and logic of Roman and medieval history. North and South American geography is also studied. Math lessons focus on interest, percent, discount, and geometry. Geology and physics are introduced, with lessons in acoustics, optics, heat, and magnetism. The courses of the stars and phases of the moon as seen from the Earth may be presented. English writing skills are practiced through business and personal letters, and students may correspond in Spanish or German with pen pals in other countries.

	Seventh Grade
	The heroic figures of the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Age of Discovery challenge seventh graders to take responsibility for their actions. The lives of explorers, artists, and political and ecclesiastical reformers provide a mirror for the budding adolescent in his/her newly developing identity. Seventh graders also begin the study of algebra, geometry, mechanics, astronomy, chemistry, physiology, and European geography. They do both creative and expository writing, exploring various themes in poetry and prose.

	Eighth Grade
	The eighth grade curriculum encourages students to form opinions, take positions, and assume responsibility for themselves in the wider community. The study of the American, French, and Industrial Revolutions is thus particularly appropriate for students at this stage of development. Geometry, algebra, physics, organic chemistry, physiology, and the geography of Africa and Asia are also covered. Eighth graders compose poems and write research papers on various topics.