The Waldorf grade school curriculum offers a classic liberal arts education. Math, reading, writing, history and science are presented in intensive blocks so that children may immerse themselves in each subject as the material unfolds. Art, music, handwork and movement classes are woven into the daily fabric of the Waldorf grade school curriculum.

Teachers also integrate music, movement, recitation, art and literature into academic lessons. Nature stories present the outside world in imaginative pictures, laying the foundation for natural sciences. Children experience addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in lively ways such as stamping and clapping, number games, stories and drawings. World mythology, folktales and legends form the basis for language arts lessons throughout all the grades, introducing the children to complex language, profound concepts and a multicultural approach to life.

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking."  - Albert Einstein

The students' lesson books are a unique and vital part of Waldorf education. Carefully crafted by the children with attention to detail and artistic presentation, each book is filled with compositions, observations, diagrams and illustrations.

Two foreign languages are introduced in grade one. At this early age, children develop a good ear and feeling for the languages by learning poems, songs and games characteristic of the culture.

River Song now offers separate enrichment classes in Handwork, Spanish, & German to supplement the elementary-age curriculum of student's in other schooling environments.

A distinctive feature of Waldorf education is that each grade school teacher welcomes an incoming first grade class and ideally remains with the class through eighth grade. In this way, the teacher comes to know each child and understand his or her needs through the years. The teacher serves as a guide and respected authority figure to the developing children, presenting age-appropriate lessons as the students move through the grades. Hands-on activities such as house building, gardening, cooking and crafts are experiences that the teacher will refer to when introducing the more abstract sciences in the upper grades.