Begins on Aug 31. 2020! Outdoor Roots & Shoots Parent Child Class

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Begins on Aug 31. 2020! Outdoor Roots & Shoots Parent Child Class

Join Veronica Kent for this wonderful class. Veronica has been working with young children since 2001, first as a music specialist in several Hudson Valley nursery schools and later as an early childhood teacher. She completed the Waldorf Teacher Training Program at Sophia’s Hearth, with a Birth to 3 specialization. She worked at Mountain Laurel Waldorf School for ten years, teaching in the nursery, kindergarten and parent child program as well as serving as the Pedagogical Chair for three years.

Veronica is a harpist and singer, and enjoys storytelling, stargazing and birdwatching. She lives in New Paltz with her husband and children, two of whom are Waldorf graduates. She ran her own successful home program before joining the faculty at Acorn Waldorf School. Miss Veronica is the Lead Teacher for the Sprouts Nursery and Roots Parent Child Class in our upcoming school year.

Session A

Mondays 9AM - 11AM, $225

Aug 31 & Sept 1, 14, 21, 28 & Oct 5, 12, 19, 26, 2020

Session B

Mondays 9AM - 11AM, $175

Nov 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 & Dec 7, 14, 2020

The Outdoor Roots and Shoots Parent Child class supports parents of very young children by offering a warm and welcoming outdoor environment in which to meet with other parents and an experienced teacher in an online setting. Each week we will gather for lively discussion and time for singing and finger games. We’re nurturing and building a community of like minded parents. Our vision for our new outdoor offering is grounded in the living inquiries of parents today at home with their young children.

Topics include setting up an environment where children are safe and may cultivate the habit of independent play, setting boundaries while remaining calm and establishing a rhythm in which you and your child are thriving.

Expectant parents are also welcome!

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Introducing the Neighboring Tree Documentary!

By Neighboring Tree Project • 19 Feb, 2022

We are excited to share a new documentary about the work the Neighboring Tree Project did with a neighboring Head Start and the creation of an outdoor forest program for the children in their care. 🌿 Over the past months, Elia Gilbert , one of Acorn's kindergarten teachers, has been working with the Agri-Business Child Development Center team of educators to produce a 30 minute video which documents their collaborative process in creating an outdoor forest program for the children in their care. We hope this will inspire future Neighboring Tree Project collaborations, as well as other Waldorf educators to reach out to their neighbors in similar ways. We are now looking for more "branches" to our NT P work, as well as more Waldorf teacher people-power to work on the ground with our neighbors. After seeing the video and getting a sense of our work, please get back to us with any inspirations or feedback. We'd like to hear from our community! We hope you enjoy this film!

Help Us Celebrate Our 10 Year Anniversary!

By motria • 01 Jun, 2021

Let's Celebrate Together! Acorn Waldorf School is celebrating its 10 Year Anniversary! We began this wondrous journey with 8 intrepid families who took a chance on a tiny new program and, with their support and the support of so many families in the decade since, have grown into a vibrant center for Waldorf Early Childhood Education in the Hudson Valley. I can’t think of a better way to mark this auspicious moment in our school’s biography than making a meaningful contribution to the Sunbridge Institute Diversity Fund . During the entire month of June, for each donation to the Sunbridge Institute Diversity Fund, Acorn will give another $25. In the line where it asks, " My connection to Sunbridge is? " Please write " AWS 10 Year Anniversary ". Our hope is to inspire at least 50 individual donations but we will happily go above and beyond! If you or your family has benefitted from, enjoyed or simply appreciate what’s happening at Acorn, please consider joining me in support of this all important endeavor. This wonderful fund supports BIPOC individuals in the Sunbridge Institute Waldorf teacher education programs, creating a more diverse pool of Waldorf teacher education graduates who will be fully prepared to take on educational and leadership roles in Waldorf classrooms and schools. We are grateful and awed by Acorn’s continually star-strewn journey. May the next ten years continue to be blessed. Together we can make a difference! 🧡

Neighboring Tree Project

By Acorn Waldorf School • 18 Feb, 2021

The Neighboring Tree Project (NTP) is an AWS initiative that aims to create community partnerships with our "neighboring trees," i.e. local early childhood educators, schools and centers who are doing the important work of caring for children from underserved, migrant farming or inner-city backgrounds. In building these relationships, we are working collaboratively to bolster the programming offered, taking individual needs and current staff into consideration. The goal is to empower our neighbors with tools and pedagogical enrichment. We also hope to learn: we want to get to know our neighbors, the children and families in our region, and learn from whatever is brought to the group together. The forest offers nutrients to all its trees, and one tree shares with another for mutual health of the whole. Read on to learn about our first two endeavors, Agri-Business Child Development in New Paltz, NY and Meagher Pre-K in Kingston, NY.