Waldorf Academy Toronto Child Life Skills Alternative Education Program Launched

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The Waldorf Academy in Toronto, Ontario has launched early childhood alternative education programs focusing on teaching children practical life skills including cooking, baking, sewing, planting, farming and more.


The Waldorf Academy in Toronto, Ontario has announced its early childhood programs focusing on meaningful life skills and practical thinking.


More information can be found here: https://waldorfacademy.org


The academy has over 30 years of experience providing alternative education programs to children from kindergarten to grade 8, and is part of the century-old Waldorf education tradition. Instead of following the strict and formulaic curriculum of the public school system, Waldorf schools offer a learning environment that is stimulating, nurturing and creative.


Children will learn many valuable life skills including but not limited to measuring of time, liquid and money, cooking and baking, building simple shelters, planting seeds, working on a farm, weaving, sewing, making their own dictionaries and will ultimately learn how to listen and speak from the heart.


The main mission of Waldorf Academy is to ignite passion for the art of learning inspired learning environments. The academy attracts highly capable, dedicated and skilled educators who have a real passion for learning and teaching. They strive to foster healthy relationships among students, parents and teachers by developing and maintaining a real understanding of the whole child.


The organization is of the philosophy that important developmental changes happen when children turn 9 years old. The academy refers to this stage as the concrete operational change. They offer grade 3 curriculums focused on supporting and guiding children through this stage, giving them the tools and knowledge to become the best versions of themselves as they cross the threshold from child to adolescent.


The Waldorf Academy is a renowned organization for alternative education and has received numerous accolades for its work. One online testimonial reads, “Giving our daughter a Waldorf education from JK to grade eight was the best decision we could have made as parents and the results have exceeded anything we could have imagined.”


A full listing of programs, admission requirements and tuition fees are available on the website. Interested parties can find more information and enroll their child at the link above.


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