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Our Spring Soirée is this Saturday. We look forward to seeing you there.

And a big THANK YOU to our generous sponsors!

More information and tickets here: https://waldorfsantabarbara.org/spring-soiree

Save the date! Our Spring Soirée is happening May 18 from 6-9 pm! We hope to see you there.

Join us Thursday evening for a preview of first grade and learn more about our love based education. We hope to see you there! ✨

Join us for an ✨OPEN HOUSE✨ Wednesday, January 24th at 10:00 am. A morning in the Early Childhood followed by a Walk Through the Grades. RSVP encouraged. Link in bio.

Please join us to learn about our love-based education that honors the whole child. During this hour led by our teachers and staff, you will be given a picture of a child's first grade experience and how that experience unfolds as s/he journeys through the other grades.
Link in bio to sign up!

The Tea Collection School Days Fundraiser starts on October 17th! Our school's promo code (SDF22WALDORF) is valid from midnight PST on Monday 10/17 through Sunday 10/23 at TeaCollection.com. Save 25% off your order (and our school will get 20% back). Some exclusions apply. For more details, visit the website.

Wednesday, February 2nd, 4:30-5:30. Please come join us to learn about our love-based education that honors the whole child. During this hour led by our teachers, you will be given a picture of a child’s first grade experience and how that experience unfolds as s/he journeys through the grades.
Childcare available.
RSVP via link in bio.

The Tea Collection School Days Fundraiser starts this week. Use our school's promo code (SDF21WALDORF) at TeaCollection.com from midnight PST on Monday, October 4th through Tuesday, October 12th to save 20% off your order (and our school will get 15% back).

We have a few spaces left in our spring Parent-Child Circle with the lovely Ashley
Classes will be on Thursdays from 8:30-10:30 starting April 1st!
Link in bio for more info and to register.

Registration is now open for our Winter 2021 and Spring 2021 Parent Child Circle. Times are certainly strange right now but we can offer our children a sweet, gentle (and safe!) circle to help add balance and rhythm to our days. Learn more on our website (link in bio).

Come sing, dance, play, sew and knit with us! We still have a few spots available in our ✨Elderberry Parent-Child Circle✨ First class meets Thursday, November 5th. For children ages 1-3. Visit the link in our bio for more info or to register.

The Tea Collection School Days Fundraiser is Underway! Use code SDF20WALDORF during checkout now through 10/12 to get 15% off your order, and 15% will be donated to the Waldorf School of Santa Barbara! Shop now at www.TeaCollection.com

Save money and support WSSB with Axxess!

Axxess memberships offer discounts and deals at local restaurants, retailers, and other services. This year’s membership includes savings at over 1000 local businesses in Santa Barbara & Ventura counties, including more than 400 2-for-1 offers!

Order Online at axxesscard.com/fundraising by October 16th and be sure to select the Waldorf School of Santa Barbara during checkout.

We are pleased to announce that Santa Barbara County, in consultation with the California Department of Public Health, has APPROVED our waiver to resume in-person learning. Grades 1-6 will return to campus on September 9th. For more details on our reopening plan, please visit the WSSB website (link in bio).
Special thanks to and all the teachers, staff and parents who helped us get here!
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We are pleased to announce that Santa Barbara County, in consultation with the California Department of Public Health, has APPROVED our waiver to resume in-person learning. Grades 1-6 will return to campus on September 9th. For more details on our reopening plan, please visit the WSSB website.

https://waldorfsantabarbara.org/Return-to-Campus

Registration is open for our Elderberry Parent-Child Circle (for children ages 1-3 and their parent or caregiver) starting September 10th. 9-11 am. Space is limited.
Visit the link in our bio for more info and to register.

Worth a read! 💖✨💖

The Great Pause - A Tale for Young Children This beautiful fairy tale was written by Early Childhood teacher, Elizabeth Emmett, at the Lake Champlain Waldorf School to help young children relate to what’s happening during this trying time.

Friends! Today is the last day to shop teacollection.com to receive free shipping on orders $75 or more + 10% of your sales donated back to our school. Make sure you get the word out to your community that today is their last chance to shop! Thanks for your support and happy shopping.

Tea Collection Fundraiser Still Happening!
February 23 – March 8

Tea Collection is a brand of beautiful, durable, ethically-sourced kids clothes. WSSB is participating in Tea Collection’s School Days Fundraiser. Shop online at teacollection.com with free shipping on orders $75+ and WSSB will receive 10% of sales! Our Promo Code is SDSP20WALDORF. Please share this offer with friends and family!

There are two spots left in our Friday Parent Child class (for children 1-3 years old). Link in bio for more info and to register.
📸: 🐝Bees in the kindergarten🐝

SAVE THE DATE! Our 2020 Spring Soirée at Pearl Social is Saturday, May 16, 2020, from 5:00-7:00 p.m. It will be a fun-filled night out with expertly handcrafted cocktails, small bites, live music, and extraordinary auction items at Pearl Social, an intimate cocktail and music bar in the Funk Zone. For more information, please visit https://waldorfsantabarbara.org/events/springsoiree

SAVE THE DATE!
On Saturday, May 16th, the Waldorf School of Santa Barbara will host its Spring Soirée, an annual event that raises funds to support WSSB and celebrates 36 years of providing a healthy, broad, reverent education that honors the head, heart, hands—the whole—of the child.

This cocktail reception with live acoustic music will be held at Pearl Social, an intimate cocktail and music bar in the Funk Zone. Event attendees will enjoy old-world cocktails with modern twists and delicious small bites created by the original chef of The Lark, Jason Paluska. Chef Paluska has garnered numerous awards and international recognition for his Central Coast inspired, seasonal, locally sourced, and scratch-made menu.

The Annual Spring Soirée will also feature live and silent auctions.

Tickets go on-sale April 1st.

For more information, please visit our event webpage: https://waldorfsantabarbara.org/events/springsoiree

Interested in becoming a sponsor or auction donor? Please contact the WSSB Fundraising & Faires Committee at [email protected]

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Assuming Goodness: Why Children Need Great Expectations “It is very important that during these early years a child should be surrounded by noble-minded, generous-hearted and affectionate people with good thoughts, for these stamp themselves on the child’s inner life.” - Rudolf Steiner Children imitate what surrounds them, especially the thoughts a...

We love these books in our house :)

Mo Willems on the Lost Art of Being Silly The author of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive The Bus! chats with us about creativity, drawing as empathy, and letting kids “do 51% of the work.”

Still a few spots left for our Spring Parent-Child Class (for ages 1-3 years)
https://waldorfsantabarbara.org/parent-child-class

Tea Collection Fundraiser Still Happening!
February 23 – March 8

Tea Collection is a brand of beautiful, durable, ethically-sourced kids clothes. WSSB is participating in Tea Collection’s School Days Fundraiser. Shop online at teacollection.com with free shipping on orders $75+ and WSSB will receive 10% of sales! Our Promo Code is SDSP20WALDORF. Please share this offer with friends and family!

William Steig’s Books Explored the Reality That Adults Don’t Want Children to Know About Steig has a gift for stories that feel like fables or folktales, didactic forms that require a kind of frankness.

Tea Collection Fundraiser Starts Today! February 23 – March 8

Tea Collection is a brand of beautiful, durable, ethically-sourced kids clothes. WSSB is participating in Tea Collection’s School Days Fundraiser. Shop online at teacollection.com with free shipping on orders $75+ and WSSB will receive 10% of sales! Our Promo Code is SDSP20WALDORF. Please share this offer with friends and family!

Association of Waldorf Schools of North America

Waldorf Alum Spotlight, via AWSNA. So interesting to hear what Waldorf students are up to now!

This week in our Alum Spotlight... Daniel Hungerman, Economics Researcher & Professor at University of Notre Dame.

Dan Graduated from Spring Garden Waldorf School and his research is featured in this NPR article:
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/12/693587418/the-baby-less-recovery

Play Is Disappearing From Kindergarten. It’s Hurting Kids. - EdSurge News

edsurge.com I still remember the first time a student refused to step into my classroom. Initially ecstatic to start school, Truman was now red in the face from ...

Free series from Simplicity Parenting. I always learn something new!

This week we begin a five part series into Easing Sibling Tensions. Three of these episodes are new and two are from our archives. We hope putting these all together in one series will be helpful in working with this tricky issue that comes up for so many parents.

The newest simplicity Diary entry has been posted as part of the Simplicity Parenting Podcast with Kim John Payne: Easing Sibling Tensions Pt 1 - Knowing Who Is In Charge

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-simplicity-parenting-podcast-with-kim-john-payne/id1407320921