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SWS: where students love to learn! 🌱🌈💚 Our Marigo

SWS: where students love to learn! 🌱🌈💚

Our Marigold Stepping Stones class had such fun practicing a German counting game with their little gnome friends - little did they know they were learning a new language! 🍄

In our Early Childhood classrooms, World Language is introduced through games, songs and movement to keep lessons age appropriate and fun!

💭Interested in learning more about our Early Childhood programs? Contact Admissions Director, Liz Pargament, today at admissions@susquehanna.org.

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Gnomes have been spotted in Marietta! 🍄 Recently,

Gnomes have been spotted in Marietta! 🍄

Recently, our Stepping Stones students were guided by their talking gnome - who helps the little ones with listening and taking turns during sharing time - on a magical journey to meet his gnome family!

Each child discovered a gnome of their very own who will join their family and help facilitate family share time all summer long!☀️🌈

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The Dragon Boat Festival came to life at SWS, comp

The Dragon Boat Festival came to life at SWS, complete with boat races and drawings to celebrate the traditional Chinese holiday. 🐲🎉

The Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu Jie in Mandarin) is held May 5th on the Lunar Calendar and June 19th this year on the Gregorian calendar to honor an ancient patriotic poet named Qu Yuan (340 BC - 278 BC).

Traditionally, the Festival is celebrated with Dragon Boat Races, eating rice dumplings called zongzi, hanging mugwort on the front door, carrying fragrant sachets and drinking Hsiung Huang Wine to seek protection from evil and disease.

A special thank you to our Mandarin teacher Hui-Ling Singer for her expertise and creativity that shapes all of her lessons. 💛

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In a world where childhood is increasingly shaped

In a world where childhood is increasingly shaped by screens and artificial connections, one truth feels more urgent than ever: children learn best through human relationships. 🌿

For more than 100 years, Waldorf education has understood what modern research is now confirming, that deep, lasting learning happens through conversation, creativity, movement, mentorship, and meaningful connection with other human beings.

As educator and researcher, Jared Cooney Horvath writes:

“Learning is a human endeavor: We can learn from other things like books and technology... it’s just that the learning is typically shallower, less durable, and less transferable than the learning we do with other human beings.”

At SWS, students are known deeply by their teachers and engaged fully in the learning process through discussion, hands-on experiences, artistic work, and collaboration.

Our approach to technology reflects this philosophy. In the middle school years, technology is introduced intentionally and purposefully. Before students learn through technology, they first learn how to think critically, connect authentically, focus deeply, and see technology for what it is: a tool, not the center of childhood.

Because children deserve more than information.
They deserve a fully human education. 💚

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