First graders hear stories, draw pictures, and discover the letter in the gesture of the picture. This process is accompanied by much phonetic work in songs, poems and games that help to establish a joyful and living experience of language. Through the grades, texts taken from the rich Humanities curriculum provide additional material for reading practice. The Main Lesson subject can be, for example, algebra, Greek history, botany or acoustics. This approach allows for freshness and enthusiasm, concentrated in-depth experience, and gives the children time to assimilate that which has been learned.
All children learn handiwork, knitting, crocheting, sewing, wood and metal work and book binding.
The art of Eurythmy, taught in all grades, translates speech and music into physical movement. This leads children to experience moods of poetry, qualities of sounds and elements of rhythm and music through their own movements. In this way, they learn increasingly complex social and communicative skills while developing physical coordination and spatial orientation. In first grade, children are taught to play the recorder or wooden flue. Other instruments are gradually introduced, leading to Choir and Orchestra in the higher grades.