Springtime is a celebration of new growth.

May Day comes with freshness and freedom! We sing our way through this season with joy and gladness! We dance and sing around the maypole and braid the ribbon with laughter and music.

We will celebrate at Highbanks Metro Park so that there is room for everyone to celebrate together.

Everyone wears white, children wear their handmade crowns.

We close with a delicious potluck lunch, strawberries, and lemonade!

More information will be shared as the event draws nearer!

Please join us to find out more about our Early Childhood, Kindergarten and Grades programs at 76 Charleston Ave. Our Grades and Early Childhood teachers and staff will be available to give tours, explore our classrooms and engage in conversation.

There will be a Grades Curriculum presentation from 3:30pm - 4:00pm by our Lead and current Third/Fourth Grade Teacher, Ms. Kate Curlis.

Please join us to find out more about our Early Childhood, Kindergarten and Grades programs at 76 Charleston Ave. Our Grades and Early Childhood teachers and staff will be available to give tours, explore our classrooms and engage in conversation.

There will be a Grades Curriculum presentation from 3:30pm - 4:00pm by our Lead and current Third/Fourth Grade Teacher, Ms. Kate Curlis.

December brings us many reasons to celebrate, among them the Spiral Garden.

A spiral path made of evergreen boughs with a candle set on a stump in the center and golden stars along the pathway. We are all on a journey to bring our gifts and our inner light into our community to share with others.

We enter the garden to soft music from the lyre. After soft singing, the light in the center is lit, then one by one the older children are given an apple with a candle to walk to the center of the spiral and light their candle, then set it on a gold star on the return path from the center. After all have set their candles on the path, the room has brightened with a light from each of us.

As we journey through our lives, we touch many with our lights and warm many with our hearts.

Silence follows… all leave quietly to go home for gentle reflection.

The Spiral Walk is a beautiful festival that symbolizes gathering our inner light and strength. The mood is one of peace, quiet, beauty and reverence. It feels very potent this year!

Please join us for our 2020-2021 school and adult community yearly review. Gather in our front garden with our staff to meet our new board members. Help us say thank you and good bye to our outgoing members. Let's take time together to review all of our challenges and accomplishments this last year has held for us. While looking forward to next year and how we can grow closer and stronger together. Childcare is not provided.

Springtime is a celebration of new growth.

May Day comes with freshness and freedom! We sing our way through this season with joy and gladness! We dance and sing around the maypole and braid the ribbon with laughter and music.

Everyone wears white, children wear their handmade crowns.

We close with a delicious potluck lunch, strawberries, and lemonade!

More information will be shared as the event draws nearer!

Please join us in our second in a series of community work days!

Thank you to everyone who made our first workday so successful! Gathering together, connecting as a community and brainstorming solutions was energizing.

Despite a few set backs, we were able to accomplish most of our tasks for our Change of Occupancy, only one left! As we worked through our challenges, we found new needs for our teachers and students.

We invite you, as a part of the Juniper Community, to join us in person if you can this weekend as we take on our project list again.

Please sign up here for what project(s) speak to you or a friend. 

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. We look forward to seeing you Sunday!

 
"To pay attention to one’s ideas. To think only significant thoughts. To learn little by little to separate in one’s thoughts the essential from the nonessential, the eternal from the transitory, truth from mere opinion." 
   ~Rudolph Steiner in reference to The Eightfold Path/The Eight Daily Exercises:Right Thinking/Opinion

Please join us in our first of a series of community work days!

With the bright sun melting away the snow, warming up our faces and bodies, allowing us to catch glimpses of spring, we are reenergized in our efforts to make our space feel like home. From re-establishing our outdoor classroom space to tidying up our last items to complete our change of occupancy, there will be no shortage of tasks to accomplish. We ask that you, as a part of the Juniper Community, join us in person if you can this weekend or next.

Please sign up here for what project(s) speak to you or a friend. 

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. We look forward to seeing you Sunday!

 
"Where one does things of one's own accord, out of one's own initiative: consider most thoroughly beforehand the effect of one's actions." 
   ~Rudolph Steiner in reference to The Eightfold Path/The Eight Daily Exercises

December brings us many reasons to celebrate, among them the Spiral Garden.

A spiral path made of evergreen boughs with a candle set on a stump in the center and golden stars along the pathway. We are all on a journey to bring our gifts and our inner light into our community to share with others.

We enter into a dark room to soft music from the lyre. After soft singing, the light in the center is lit, then one by one the older children are given an apple with a candle to walk to the center of the spiral and light their candle, then set it on a gold star on the return path from the center. After all have set their candles on the path, the room has brightened with a light from each of us.

As we journey through our lives, we touch many with our lights and warm many with our hearts.

Silence follows… all leave quietly to go home for gentle reflection.

After much thought and consideration, we will be having our Spiral Walk outside in our garden space. Families will be invited in short increments/time slots in order to prevent large crowds. As we get closer to the date, your family will be given a time slot.

The Spiral Walk is a beautiful festival that symbolizes gathering our inner light and strength. The mood is one of peace, quiet, beauty and reverence. It feels very potent this year!

Your family is invited to come to the park for our Harvest Festival Walk. Families will stroll around the paved trail at Sharon Meadows Park and enjoy stories, songs and gifts from the Teachers. 
Please arrive between 4pm and 5:45. Expect to walk around the Harvest Trail for about 20 minutes.  We will pace the family groups so that everyone has the ability to be distanced.

Please do not allow children to gather in the parking lot or on the playground before or after. 

We will also have extra Bolga Baskets for sale and a LARGE selection of outdoor gear, free for anyone who finds something they need.

Let us celebrate the cooler nights, rich harvest and community spirit.

Beloved Juniper families,

We invite you to a conversation about race, diversity, inclusion, and our community's collective anti-racist efforts. This is a space for us to each explore the meaning behind becoming an anti-racist institution, to set goals, and to hear from our community about what needs are not currently being met. We ask this humbly of our families, as we recognize that the school community at large is a vital part of our planning and our internal work. We need to hear from you all! 

The teaching body will share the work we have been doing, but we invite this discussion to function as an open forum, a space in which our parents can share their experiences if they feel comfortable doing so, and a place for teachers primarily to listen to our families and their needs as we move forward, together.

Please join us to ask questions, explore our curriculum, gain insight into our ideation and planning as a faculty, and give much needed input. Please contact us if you have not received the Zoom link and would like to join.

With deep appreciation and gratitude, we acknowledge parents Nama Khalil and Rebecca Brown, who have been vitally important to progressing this work within the teaching body, and who have both donated many hours of intellectual and emotional labor to bring us to this town hall with full and open hearts. 

With endless love and gratitude, The Juniper Pedagogical Counsel

Teachers Annie, Marcelle, Kate, Nicole, and Zaryana

Please join us to find out more about our Early Childhood, Kindergarten and Grades program at 76 Charleston Ave. Teachers and staff will be available to give tours, answer questions and allow the children to play!  

Our very important Spring Work Day for our Charleston Road location has been scheduled!

More details on inside and outside tasks will follow.  We ask all families to please join us for at least one of our two annual work days each year.  One of the benefits of the community pitching in to help with deep cleaning, repairs, and odd jobs, is that it helps keep tuition lower due to not having to contract out this work out for pay.  This is also a wonderful opportunity to meet other families! 

Please join us to help beautify and maintain our school.

Join us for a fun day of tie dye!

Your registration includes a shirt and all supplies for dyeing.

All proceeds will go towards purchasing a jump rope maker for the school. With a jump rope maker the school can attend various festivals and other events, and make jump ropes for sale. It will be a fundraising tool for the school for many years to come!

Please follow this link to register:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKgt6b2UprQx4rHbowTYrWjDolc-v8nWXNQFnijaxaI7BCbg/viewform

Please join us for our second monthly Community Night of 2020!  We will meet at our Early Childhood location (636 Chase Road) where board member and Waldorf school graduate Jenny Floch and Kindergarten lead teacher Zaryana Bezu will host a discussion about Waldorf education, followed by handwork for those interested. 

Wine, tea, and snacks will be provided. 

We look forward to bringing the community together while gaining a better understanding about the educational journey our children are on.  Please feel free to bring a friend, as well!

Please join us for our first Community Night of 2020!  We will meet at our Early Childhood location (636 Chase Road) where board member and Waldorf school graduate Jenny Floch and Kindergarten lead teacher Zaryana Bezu will host a discussion about Waldorf education, followed by handwork for those interested. 

Wine, tea, and snacks will be provided. 

We look forward to bringing the community together while gaining a better understanding about the educational journey our children are on.  Please feel free to bring a friend, as well!

The Juniper School is delighted to welcome all to an informative afternoon presentation. We will meet upstairs in the First/Second Grade room. Our grade school location will be available to tour after the event.

The Juniper School teachers will take us on a journey through the Waldorf Grade School curriculum. We’ll hear about the importance of child development, stories from the classroom, and see examples of student work.

This is a presentation for current families, prospective families, grandparents, curious neighbors and friends! Do you have an interest in this holistic approach to education but wonder “What will they learn? How is critical thinking encouraged? What about test scores and accountability?”

Please join us and bring a friend!