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Celebrating peace through athletic striving, the Pentathlon is a unique annual event shared by Waldorf Schools across the world. This year, Ashwood hosted fifth grade students from four different Waldorf Schools in Maine and New Hampshire participated in six different events: javelin, discus, ring wrestling, sprint, and long jump. At the end there was a…

The chilly and gray weather did not keep the crowds from our Open House event on Saturday, March 1. Current families and visitors all enjoyed a host of fun activities, including circus skills, dancing, singing, and a mini concert by alumni sister Linnea and Clementine Turesson.

Whenever the weather allows, Movement teacher Rose Swan suits up with the students and takes the them out on the trails. The weather has been very cooperative lately!

Students in Class 7-8 have embarked on an Organic Chemistry block and are discovering how sweet science can be. This week we looked at sugars—how they are used in the home and in our bodies. We built a sucrose molecule with M&Ms. We made peanut brittle, exploring what happens to sucrose when it’s heated, and…

by Elizabeth Roosevelt, Early Childhood Administrator and Lead Nursery Teacher The rhythm of our day in the nursery class allows teachers many opportunities to slow down. We are able to observe and bring intentionality to everything we do in the classroom, especially our interactions with the children.  Within the age span we have in the…

Class 3-4 visits Erickson Fields Preserve to help harvest the potato and carrot crops. And then there were carrots!

Will the the melancholy Moz and his merry friend Melody escape the mangy maws of the sea monster? Will courage prevail? Yes! (If only Moz can get his homework done.) A cast of enthusiastic 5th through 8th graders mounted a festive pageant for the Michaelmas season before an appreciative audience of 60-some grand friends and…