Waldorf education is a holistic approach to learning that focuses on nurturing a child's intellectual, emotional, and physical development. It emphasizes creativity, hands-on activities, and a deep connection to nature. Three mornings a week, your child will enjoy learning language and math through storytelling, drawing, painting, hands-on activities, and nature exploration.
What is a Homeschool Co-op program?
Tidewater is a Waldorf is a drop-off cooperative learning environment that supports families that have chosen home education. Our hybrid homeschool education model offers Waldorf classes three days a week while also allowing for the natural rhythm of family life to flourish in your home. We emphasize the importance of protecting our children’s childhood and allowing them to flourish through their imagination and play. Our program includes aspects of a traditional Waldorf Education while also educating families on how to incorporate these practices in their own home and lives.
Our program meets Monday, Wednesday, Thursday from 9:30am - 1:30pm.
Our Media-Free Policy
Waldorf education strives to nurture and protect the development of the imagination, which is the vehicle for learning and growth. In general, Waldorf schools discourage your children from regular screen time and media, including television viewing, using video games, watching videos, and using computers, tablets, and hand-held devices. This type of media contains images and interactions that affect children deeply, and they carry these images and gestures into their play and social interactions with other children.
Waldorf-Inspired
The Waldorf curriculum aims at teaching the whole child - the mind, body, soul and spirit. All areas of the curriculum incorporate imagination, art, nature and movement. In the grades program, the day starts with "main lesson" which is a 2-hour block of time that carries the rhythm and new material of the day. It usually starts with songs, recorder playing, integrative movement, poetry and then new academic material (which is always introduced through imagination and applied with art), and finishes with a story.