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lo understand Spring Mountain better, I trekked to the Washington Waldorf School, a wellestablished school in Bethesda, Maryland, with 308 students through grade 12 ($7,600 tuition for first grade). ■. In the fourth^grade classroom I visited, there was little that wasn’t made by the children out of natural materials — wood, paper, beeswax, cotton doth, plants. The effect was deeply soothing, like sitting by a beautiful waterfall.
The 19 fourth-graders went through their morning paces — a difficult lesson on fractions — as gracefully as well-choreographed ballet dancers.
They used all their senses on the morning I visited, and almost everything they did related ingeniously to their math lesson.
They chanted through math problems, while moving their legs and arms in rhythm. They did one • count-by-six exercise in a big circle, then divided up to do another lesson while they tossed sticks. They also did problems in their workbooks and at the blackboard, including some timed drills.
Lovely Music and Art • They played their flutes as a group, giving me a lovely recital of a half-dozen Christmas carols. And they drew beautiful pictures for 45 minutes or so, illustrating a touching tale the teacher had told them
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