Grades 6-8
Could a Waldorf education be the Upper Grades alternative you’ve been seeking?
Our current class of 4/5th graders will be the first class to graduate from 8th grade at Waldorf School of Louisville.
In a Waldorf School, the emerging adolescent enters a classroom experience that is dedicated to providing an education that understands and embraces his or her stage of development.
The following is an example to the curriculum our emerging middle school children could expect to encounter:
Grade Six
Transition from Grecian world to Roman
Ancient Rome: the Kings, the Republic, the Empire, the Middle Ages
Business math: Percentages, banking, currency and simple interest
Geometry
Language arts: Grammar (subjunctive mood and the conditional), spelling composition, literature
Physics: Introduction to light and color, heat, sound, magnetism, and electricity.
Astronomy: Geocentric and phenomenological Knitting in the round with four needles
Geography: Climactic zones and oceanography
Music
Kentucky Culture including stories, folk dance and crafts
Spanish Language
Movement education
Grade Seven
Middle Ages to the Renaissance: Joan of Arc to the Elizabethan Age
Age of Discovery and the Conquistadors
Astronomy: Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe, Kepler
The Reformation
Geography of Asia and Europe
Introduction to Algebra
Nutrition and Physiology
Chemistry
Mechanics
Peer mediation skills
Community service
Perspective drawing
Articles of clothing sewn by hand
Music
Spanish Language
Movement education
Grade Eight
The Age of Revolution – French Revolution, American Revolution, Civil War and Industrial Revolution
American History
World Geography
Physics: Practical applications of electricity, steam engines, thermodynamics, hydraulics
Physiology: Eye, ear, larynx, skeleton
Organic chemistry
World History: Napoleon to WWI and WWII to the present time
Community Service
Algebra
Music
Spanish Language
Movement Education
