Aikya

GRADE SCHOOL

During the elementary years, a student’s imagination and feelings serve as the gateway to deep, sustained learning and intellectual growth. Waldorf teachers present academic material artistically through drama, story, art, music, and movement. This interdisciplinary approach engenders a deep love of learning and challenges students on multiple levels.

Grade 1

Central theme: Fairy tales, fables and myths from around the world

  • Math: Number patterns, manipulate numbers up to 24 with the four processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
  • Language Art: Letters of the alphabet; word families; exercises in reading, writing, and speech; story properties; drama
  • Science: Nature studies and nature walks
  • Languages: Kannada and Hindi songs and poems
  • Art: Form drawing, watercolor painting, crayon illustration
  • Music: Recorder, singing in unison
  • Handwork: Knitting
  • Eurythmy and movement

Grade 2

Central Theme:  Legends, saints, fables

  • Math: Place value (1–1,000), addition and subtraction of large numbers by carrying and borrowing, regrouping, number patterns, all four arithmetical operations, multiplication tables
  • Language Art: Arts: Phonetics; reading and writing letters; words and sentences; drama; reading in groups; library time
  • Science: Animal behavior, gardening, nature studies and nature walks
  • Languages: Hindi and Kannada songs and poems
  • Art: Form drawing, watercolor painting
  • Music: Recorder, singing in unison and in rounds
  • Handwork: Knitting
  • Eurythmy, movement and games

Grade 3

Central Theme: Old Testament Stories

  • Math: Calculate with time, money, measurement; continued practice with the four arithmetical processes and the multiplication tables.
  • Language Art: Reading, composition and grammar, cursive writing, spelling, drama, library time
Science: Farming and gardening, building and weaving.
  • Science: Kannada and Hindi
  • Languages: Kannada and Hindi songs and poems
  • Art: Watercolor technique, drawing
  • Music: Recorder, choral singing.
  • Handwork: Knitting and crocheting
  • Eurythmy, movement and games

Grade 4

Central theme: Fairy tales, fables and myths from around the world

  • Math: Number patterns, manipulate numbers up to 24 with the four processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
  • Language Art: Letters of the alphabet; word families; exercises in reading, writing, and speech; story properties; drama
  • Science: Nature studies and nature walks
  • Languages: Kannada and Hindi songs and poems
  • Art: Form drawing, watercolor painting, crayon illustration
  • Music: Recorder, singing in unison
  • Handwork: Knitting
  • Eurythmy and movement

Grade 5

Central theme:   Ancient cultures of India, Persia, Egypt and Greece

  • Math: Fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, beginning geometry
  • Language Art: Composition, grammar and syntax, research, drama
  • Science: Botany
  • Local History & Geography: Indian history and geography; history and geography of ancient cultures
  • World Languages: Spanish and Mandarin beginning grammar
  • Art: Colored pencil, drawing and shading
  • Music: Recorder, choral singing, scales and notation
  • Handwork: knitting projects
  • Woodwork: Carving
  • Eurythmy, games, training for the 5th grade Olympics

Grade 6

Central theme: Early Asia

  • Math: Percentages, business math (interest and discounts), statistics, geometry, Math Skills class twice per week
  • Language Art: Grammar and composition, letter writing (business and personal), drama, English Skills class twice per week
  • Science: Geology and physics, with lessons in acoustics, optics, heat, and magnetism
  • History & Culture: History geography of Asia,
  • Languages: Kannada and Hindi
  • Art: Color wheel, three dimensionality in drawing, painting
  • Music: Recorder, choral singing, scales and notation
  • Handwork: Sewing and knitting projects
  • Woodwork: Carvings
  • Eurythmy and games
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