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May Festival

5/1/2025

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Waldorf May Festival

Celebrate the halfway point between Spring and Summer with a May Festival.
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We encourage families to recognize the passage of time and the seasonal rhythms through festival celebrations.  Festivals provide an opportunity for your community to unite and share wonder, reverence and gratitude.  May Festival celebrates the awakening of the earth, the lengthening of days, and the rebirth of nature around us.  We celebrate this time of growth with joyous song and dance, playful games and a community picnic.


Traditionally May Festivals are celebrated on May 1st, but we have always found that using the early weeks of May to prepare and then holding the festival later in the month works too.  And if you're homeschooling, you can be as flexible as you like.

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10 Earth Day Actions to Inspire Your Child to Have a Positive Environmental Impact.

4/22/2025

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Looking for ways to bring awareness about our responsibility to care for the Earth?  The following environmental actions are important to do all year round, not just on Earth day.  We encourage you to go through the list with your child and choose a few that inspire you.  Commit to making them a part of your homeschooling routine.  Together we can build a better world for the future.

1. Go for a walk and pick up litter

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Gardening with Children

3/15/2025

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Providing your child with the opportunity to grow food fosters a sense of responsibility and connection with nature. 

There are numerous ways to approach this activity, each with unique benefits. You can choose the most suitable method depending on your location and gardening context. While we won’t delve into all the possibilities, we strongly advocate for providing your child with the opportunity to grow food to foster a sense of responsibility and connection with nature and promote healthy eating habits.

Here are some easy ideas to get you started:


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Easter & Spring Activities

3/14/2025

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Spring is such a time of renewal and comes with a burst of energy. Seasonal celebrations give you a point of focus when choosing stories, crafts and activities to do as a family. Celebrations such as Easter offer a beautiful annual rhythm, something that your child looks forward to re-engaging with each year. It's a special experience to choose activities that become family traditions. ​

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Celebrating Purim

3/1/2025

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Celebrating Purim

​Purim is a festive and joyous Jewish holiday that commemorates the triumph of good over evil, as recounted in the Book of Esther. It’s a time to reflect on how Queen Esther, through her bravery and conviction, saved the Jewish people from the wicked plans of Haman, the king’s advisor. Through Esther’s strength, Haman’s plot to destroy the Jews was foiled. This day is dedicated to celebrating this miraculous turn of events and takes place this year on March 13th.

The Brave Queen Esther: A Purim Story

​A long time ago, in the land of Persia, there was a king named Ahasuerus. He ruled over a vast kingdom and had a beautiful queen named Vashti. However, one day, Queen Vashti refused to obey the king’s command, and she was no longer queen.

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Waldorf-Inspired March Activities

2/28/2025

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Waldorf-Inspired March Activities

As the days grow longer and nature begins to stir, March is a time of transition and renewal. The arrival of spring invites us to awaken our senses, embrace outdoor exploration, and celebrate the beauty of new beginnings. 
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Here’s a daily guide to help you welcome the changing season with warmth and wonder in your Waldorf homeschool.

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Planting Seeds with Children

2/27/2025

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Planting Seeds Indoors with Children

As February winds down and the first whispers of spring stir in the air, it’s the perfect time to begin preparing for an indoor seed-starting project with your little ones. This simple yet magical activity fosters patience, wonder, and responsibility while providing a hands-on lesson in the rhythms of nature. As the days grow longer, these tiny seedlings will remind us that new life is just around the corner.

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Miriam's Cup

3/27/2021

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Passover (Pesach in Hebrew) is a Jewish holiday that celebrates the Hebrews' liberation from slavery by the great prophet Moses. Moses would not have survived to free his people, had it not been for the cleverness of his sister Miriam. She set him in a basket on the river Nile, and watched over him until the Pharaoh's daughter found him and took him home to be her own son. 

In this way, Moses survived the dangerous times in Egypt, and grew up with a deep compassion for the Jewish people. In his adult years, he fulfilled his destiny to guide the Jewish people out of slavery in Egypt, to form a covenant with God through the Ten Commandments. 

Miriam, perhaps the only woman in the bible, who is not referred to as someone's mother or daughter, has, in more recent times, taken a place of honour at the Passover Seder. As Jewish celebrations and rituals become modernized to fit our new levels of awareness, we turn to the women of the Bible stories, choosing to elevate them to places of importance. In modern Jewish rituals, when the Seder, or religious dinner ritual takes place, many families choose to include Miriam as one of the sacred guests. A cup is filled with water, in her honour, and songs and stories are shared to celebrate her strengths. 

What a wonderful time we live in, where we can honour the importance of the feminine, and include it in a ritual that was formed thousands of years ago. 

Ways to Celebrate

Here are some ways you can learn more about Miriam and celebrate her as well.

Sing Miriam's Song
A beautiful song depicting the spirit of women now and in ancient days.  Here are the lyrics so you can sing along:​

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