Green Meadow's Early Childhood programs provide warm, beautiful, home-like settings that nurture the developing senses of the young child, while also striving to meet the child’s evolving abilities and awakened sense of wonder. While each of our Early Childhood classes is unique, they are united by the conscious care and devotion each teacher brings toward every child’s early childhood experience, recognizing each child’s developing individuality, along with his or her basic need for familiarity and predictability.

The overall mood of the Early Childhood classroom is held by the individual teacher, who artfully balances experiences for individual exploration with the joy found by coming into a group. As age-appropriate social development is central to the Waldorf curriculum, the children are given ample opportunity to find their way into social interactions as they step out from the smaller and familiar circle of family. While striving to promote positive social behavior, our teachers also orchestrate a harmonious breathing between the lively activity of imaginative play, singing, circle games, cooking, baking and outdoor play with the inner experiences of listening to stories, drawing and painting. Such opportunities strengthen the young child’s physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual life, and provide a strong foundation for future academic success and creative thinking.

Program Offerings

• Full-day and Half-day Nursery

  Mixed age classes for children ages 3 and 4 
  
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• Full-day and Half-day Kindergarten

  Mixed age classes for children ages 4-6 
  
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• Saturday Kindergarten Class for Japanese children

  Mixed age class for children ages 3-6  
  An introduction to Waldorf education for Japanese families, this class builds foundational skills in the Japanese language during the Early Childhood period. Please click here to request information.

• Parent-Child Classes

  These once-a-week classes are open to parents/caregivers and their young children age newborn up to thirty-six months.  Please see our Parent-Child Program page for more information. 
  

Green Meadow's Early Childhood classes are located on campus in the Kindergarten building, the Lower School building, and Oak House. Our "Farm" kindergarten is at our adjacent satellite location known as The Child’s Garden at the Fellowship Community. Each of the kindergarten classes contains one teacher and fourteen children. The nursery classes have one teacher, an assistant and twelve children.

Please see our Activities page for a description of our Early Childhood class activities.

To find out about upcoming Early Childhood Program admissions events, please go to our Admissions Events page. 

For further information about our Early Childhood program, please contact Admissions Coordinator Patricia Owens at powens@gmws.org or 845-356-9715.