WALDKINDER-PRESCHOOL

Families choose Waldkinder because is not a traditional preschool. The vision in creating Waldkinder Adventure Preschool was to create a place where we could allow each child -- in their smallness or bigness, their loudness or silence, their shyness or boldness, through their fear or their audacity -- to follow their curiosities and interests spontaneously, through exploration and adventure. Rather than pressuring them to accommodate some imposed agenda, at Waldkinder, we try to create the opportunity every day for social, emotional, physical, and academic learning from real and meaningful experiences both inside and outside the schoolroom... Waldkindergartens or forest schools, are about kinesthetic education; in the body. Children at Carbondale's Waldkinder Adventure Preschool run and jump, stalk and balance, scamper and skip through the natural world. Whether on a mountain trail, at a natural hot spring or a city bus, Waldkinder are met with a physical adventure each and every day..