Malamalama Waldorf School
Malamalama Waldorf School, founded in 1978 and incorporated in 1979, is an independant, non-profit organization licensed by the state of Hawaii. The school offers a Waldorf curriculum in the classical liberal arts style, inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner, Austrian educator, psychologist, and scientist. The school serves children pre-school through elementary grades. Special workshops for both adults and children are announced periodically throughout the year.
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To achieve academic excellence while building a good
foundation for the love of learning.
To nurture decision making skills and the ability to
assume responsibility.
To encourage awareness and consideration of others.
To develop the child's capacity to think creatively.
To help each child achieve a positive and healthy self-concept.
To develop the child's sense of community and an
appreciation of democratic cooperation.
To cultivate the qualities of wonder, reverence, and
gratitude.
To structure learning experiences so that the child
learns enthusiatically.
| The Main Lesson Curriculum Language arts, history, math, and science are taught in blocks of 3-5 weeks during the morning main lesson hours when the children are freshest for academic work. The class teacher, who presents these subjects, remains with the same class throughout the elementary years, enabling close, secure relationships with each childand an appreciation of individual needs. |
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PRIMARY GRADES 1-3Pictorial introduction to alphabet, writing, reading, spelling, poetry, and drama. Folk and fairy tales, fables, legends, old testament stories. Numbers, basic mathematical processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Nature stories, housebuilding, farming, and trades.
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MIDDLE GRADES 4-6Writing, reading, spelling, syntax, grammar, poetry, and drama. Norse sagas, history and stories of ancient civilizations culminating in Greek and Roman history. Review of the four mathematical processes, fractions (common and decimal), percentage, and geometry. Local and world geography, comparative zoology, botany, and elementary physics.
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UPPER GRADES 7-8Creative writing, reading, spelling, grammar, poetry, and drama. Medieval history, the Renaissance, the Age of Discovery, American History, biography. Algebra, geometry, business math, graphing, ratio and proportion, number bases. Geography, physics, chemistry, astronomy, physiology, geology, and minerology.
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