Foreign Language

The Waldorf approach to language instruction is based on the common-sense idea that children should learn a foreign language the same way they learn their own. In the early grades they hear it, sing it, and play games with it the way children at home would. Gradually they come to understand the new language, to perform plays in it, and to converse in it. Finally, they learn to read and write it. At our school Spanish is the chosen second language. While learning a foreign language the children are also gaining an understanding of human nature from the perspective of another culture.