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The Farm School Mission
Educating the whole child, from their heart to their intellect

The Program

  • Community Circle Time: high-quality children’s literature, songs, games, and finger plays
  • Crafts and Art
  • Sensory and Practical Life Experiences
  • Outdoor work such as Gardening, Woodworking, and Animal Care
  • Changes to the classroom environment such as thematic props, cloths and silks that reflect the season

The Good Earth Farm School Program

Our Program

We are inspired by the Waldorf educational philosophy. We work with the young child first by creating a warm, beautiful and loving home-like environment, which is protective and secure and where things happen in a predictable, regular manner.

We engage in domestic, practical and artistic activities that the children can readily imitate (for example: baking, painting, gardening and handicrafts), adapting the work to the changing seasons.

We see to nurture the children’s power of imagination by encouraging free play. This free or fantasy play helps them to experience many aspects of life more deeply. Toys are generally open-ended and made of natural materials. None of our play things make noise or require batteries!

Our Mission

The mission of The Good Earth Farm School is to provide a high-quality, nature-based education to children in the first phase of childhood (18 months to 6 years) in a home-like setting. Activities now absent from most urban children’s lives will be a key part of the curriculum, including: cooking, gardening, outdoor exploration, sewing, woodworking, caring for animals, and housekeeping. Woven into these experiences will be lessons that will well-prepare children to enter public or private school, or homeschooling arrangements. The Good Earth Farm School attempts to educate the whole child, touching the child’s heart and will besides his/her intellect.

Our Environment

In this truly natural, loving and creative environment, the children are given a range of activities and the structure that help them prepare for the next phase of school life. Skills necessary for a child’s elementary education such as sequencing, sensory integration, eye-hand coordination tracking, appreciating the beauty of language and other basic skills are fostered.

Sequencing, sensory integration, eye-hand coordination tracking, appreciating the beauty of language and other basic skills necessary for the foundation of academic excellence are fostered. In this truly natural, loving and creative environment, the children are given a range of activities and the structure that help them prepare for the next phase of school life.

Our Core Values

Welcoming

We provide a welcoming environment to all people who interact with our school. We want Good Earth Farm School to be a haven within our urban community that is a calm safe space to just “be”. We believe in the uniqueness of each individual and the value that they bring with them.

Communication

We use clear and open communication with our teachers, children and families at Good Earth Farm School. By clearly communicating, we want to promote clarity and trust and welcome feedback, so that we can decrease any potential conflict or misunderstanding. Our goal is to provide a community where everyone feels comfortable.

Kindness

We are kind, caring, and loving to all that are a part of Good Earth Farm School. Teachers use calm and positive voices while they interact with children and fellow staff. At mealtime we sing songs of kindness to the earth that provides us food to eat. We also model kindness towards our community through philanthropy.

Harmony

Every day at Good Earth Farm School, we strive to create a balanced harmony between the plants that we grow, the animals who are sheltered, the children in our care, and the parents who seek a nurturing experience for their little ones.

Respect

We treat teachers, children, families, and our planet with respect at Good Earth Farm School. We want to build an environment of trust, safety, and wellbeing through our mutual acceptance of who we are even when we don’t agree. We strive to always respect each other and be role models to Good Earth Farm School children, so they can learn how to show respect towards others.

Teamwork

We support each other at Good Earth Farm School by utilizing our core values to strengthen one another. We work collaboratively with each other to achieve a goal, which is to give our best to our children, our families, our community that we serve, and the earth we share.

 

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