By: Elena Orsak, Oak Kindergarten Teacher The children are happy, and exhausted. It takes a lot from everyone to make the transition from summer to school. You may feel that schedule wise it is simpler and easier, and it probably …
New Families: Welcome to the Bike-A-Thon!
by: Sara Chovan Welcome to a new school year! For families who are new to the school, information about the events and festivals can be really important. The Parent Association aims to be a resource to families who want more …
Grade 8 Language Arts Benchmarks
By the end of the year, students can: Independently read a wide variety of young-adult-appropriate texts including non-fiction, magazine articles, newspaper articles, novels, poems and reports. Independently write all content in main lesson books Accurately summarize main lesson presentations …
Grade 8 Math Benchmarks
By the end of the year, students can: •Manage the four processes with negative numbers • Create and interpret bar graphs, pie charts and grids • Understand and apply the order of operations rules • Solve basic algebraic equations …
Welcome New Staff Members to City of Lakes Waldorf School for 2014-15
by: Marti Stewart, Administrative Director on behalf of Administration and The College of Teachers We hope you are having a wonderful summer! The Administration and the College of Teachers are excited to announce several new hires. Please join us …
Guess Who? Meet Darcie Steeves
This photo of Darcie Steeves, our rising grade 6 teacher, was taken before her freshman year prom. She was a lively fifteen year old who had recently celebrated her golden birthday. She grew up in a small town in Wisconsin, …
Guess Who? Meet Becky Larson
By: Becky Larson It has been a pleasure to interview so many members of our faculty and staff here at City of Lakes Waldorf School this year, in celebration of our 25th Anniversary. I’ve found that the question “How did …
Guess Who? Meet Silvia Regodon
By: Becky Larson Silvia Regodon, City of Lakes Waldorf School’s Spanish teacher was just two weeks old when this photograph was taken in 1988, the year our school was founded. She was born in Villahermosa, a little village in the …
Fifth Grade Skills
By: Darcie Steeves, Grade 5 Teacher The skills listed below are introduced, reviewed or mastered during the fifth grade year at our school. I thought this would be useful in preparation for 6th grade. LANGUAGE ARTS mastery of reading and …
Guess Who? Meet Martha Mathis
By: Becky Larson This photograph of Martha Mathis, Administrative Assistant, was taken in Tulsa, Oklahoma around Christmas time. Martha is shown here with her best friend Sally, who she’s known since they were four years old. “Sally and I never went to …