Category: Early Childhood

  • Tea and Puppets at Ashwood This Spring

    Share the magic of an imaginative, colorful puppet play with your young children (ages 2-6 yrs.), enjoy some herbal tea and healthy snacks, meet new friends, and bask in the beauty of Ashwood’s early-childhood center. This spring, we invite you to join us on one morning or many: we’ll be offering programs on March 25,…

  • Let’s Play! Puppets & More.

    “The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.” (Ashley Montagu.) Play enhances language development, social competence, creativity, imagination, and thinking skills, as well as perceptual-motor abilities, in infants and young children. Play is a vital element of early-childhood education, and a delightful one! Join Ashwood teacher Beth Lunt in a…

  • Let’s Play! Puppets & More

    “The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.” (Ashley Montagu.) Play enhances language development, social competence, creativity, imagination, and thinking skills, as well as perceptual-motor abilities, in infants and young children. Play is a vital element of early-childhood education, and a delightful one! Join Ashwood teacher Beth Lunt in a…

  • New Dollmaking Class, January 2016

    An ideal doll for a very young child is the “heavy baby,” a soft doll weighted with millet that little ones love to cuddle, hug, and lug around with them. The doll’s weight provides grounding, and children can both nurture the doll and feel nurtured when it sits on their lap or rests in their…

  • Ashwood at the Farnsworth Art Museum

    This fall, Ashwood Waldorf School early-childhood teacher, Beth Lunt, will be offering a series of crafting classes at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland. These classes are for children ages 2-6 with an adult, and feature simple, artistic creations made from natural materials. Meet new friends and gain new skills! Friday mornings, 10:30-11:30 a.m., beginning September…

  • Parent-Child Classes Set for 2015-2016

    Ashwood will be offering five sessions of Parent-Child classes in 2015-16. These gentle, nurturing classes are for children ages 18 months to three years and their accompanying caregiver, and will be led by longtime teacher Marianne Böckli. Each session lasts for five weeks, and the cost is $150 per session. Ask about discounts when you…

  • Forest Kindergarten’s First Weeks

    For three glorious Wednesday mornings, Ashwood’s newest Early Childhood program, the Forest Kindergarten, has been going to the woods! When the children arrive at school, they put their backpacks, containing a full water bottle and a change of clothes, on an outside bench, go to the bathroom, then don their rain pants and say goodbye…

  • Seasonal Handwork Workshops

    Creating beautiful handwork can enrich our connection with the changing seasons. Cherry Short-Lee, longtime parent-child class leader and one of Ashwood’s founders, has offered to share her enthusiasm and expertise with parents of children ages 18-36 months, with or without their children, this fall. In three sessions, October 7, 14, and 21, from 9:00 –…

  • Parent-Child Classes: Register Now for Fall 2014

    Marianne Böckli, Ashwood Waldorf School’s Forest Kindergarten teacher, will lead Ashwood’s Parent-Child classes this fall. Classes will be offered on six Tuesday mornings from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m., beginning October 28. Cost for the six sessions is $150, and you must register by October 21. Parent-child classes are a gentle and nurturing program for children…

  • Parent-Child Classes Fall 2014

    Ashwood Waldorf School’s Parent-Child program offers a sanctuary of safe play for children and an oasis of peace and friendship for parents. The children play freely, enjoying simple group activities while their parents are nearby making toys or crafts and sharing their concerns and questions as parents of young children. This will be a valuable…