Fifth graders prepare themselves both inwardly and outwardly for the crowning event of their year, the Olympiad. Each child writes an ode to a Greek god or goddess, offering recognition and high praise in the hopes of being blessed with gifts, like strength, skill, endurance, grace, and confidence, that will ensure ...read more

The Greek Gods inspired the Olympians, but over the spring break some of Hercules’s powers immerged in an effort made by 8th grader Aldous Root who won two events and placed in two others at the all Waldorf Annual Track meet on April 25th. Aldous was the only student from TCWS who was able to ...read more

Every year in Waldorf schools across the world, each third grade student chooses, designs, and builds a house from around the globe. This year's third grade class had 2 requirements:

1. Build from natural materials
2. Be sure they do the work themselves, without their parent's help.

If you come to ...read more

The art of making pysanky, also known as Ukrainian eggs, is much older than Christianity, with which it is now associated.  Ancient peoples decorated eggs as part of their worship of the sun.  The eggs represented the new birth of the sun and the earth, which occurs in the spring time.  The eggs served ...read more

Each year in a Waldorf school, the third grade has the task of designing and implementing a building project that is often given away as a gift to the school.  In the more recent years, Ms. Seidman’s third grade class built the wooden benches that sit outside of  Trillium Hall and serve as a wonderful ...read more

The 4th grade is preparing an additional class play, a production of the Finnish "Kalevala" epic. It will be open to the public, since it will take place at the NORDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM in NW Seattle on Sunday, April 1 at 2pm.

The Kalevala stories, much like the German fairy tales, were written down in ...read more

A suitcase bursting with Japanese culture, language, and geography was found in the third grade classroom this week. The suitcase was full of costumes, props, Japanese textbooks, maps, and three different alphabets. The third graders discovered that the suitcase belonged to three visiting Japanese teachers who ...read more

The Vikings were known and feared as skilled warriors who fearlessly entered any battle. Their power was based on physical training, superior metalsmithing, and their religious beliefs. If a man died courageously, he would be guided by the Valkyries to Valhalla, where feasting and fighting filled each day - quite ...read more

One dewy morning, out of the fog, twelve ghostly figures huddled around a metal cauldron and slowly conjured a flame, to which all sorts of materials were added and thus the seventh grade chemistry block began. As the veil was pulled from one of nature’s mysteries, another mystery would present itself ...read more

The 5th Grade study of India filled minds and hearts with the wonderful stories of the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Bhagavad Gita, and the lives of Buddha and Krishna. The children looked at actual adult-level poetic versions of the epics, as well, marveling at the meter, length and complexity of the thousands of ...read more