April Dates to Learn More about Azalea Mountain and Waldorf Education

Dear Waldorf Friends,

Please join us in the joy of co-creating Azalea Mountain Cooperative, K-4, with experienced Waldorf teachers, a convenient West Asheville location at Trinity United Methodist Church and a Nature Immersion Day each week at Sacred Mountain Sanctuary in Candler.

All are welcome to these important gatherings at Azalea Mountain Coop, Trinity Church, 587 Haywood Rd (park at far end of parking lot):

April 5, 3:30, Azalea Mountain Board meeting, open to the community. Planning playground, yard sale, May Faire, Lazure painting two classrooms, making and gathering classroom furniture and materials, and getting the word out!  All welcome. Sorry, child care is not available this time.

April 5-11  Meet the Kindergarten Teacher.  If you are interested in your child being in the Azalea Mountain Kindergarten, please schedule a time to meet the lead teacher, Kate Donnelly, when she is in town.  Kate will be moving to Asheville from Tucson Waldorf in July, coming to us with 15 years Waldorf early childhood experience! 

To schedule your time for you and your child to meet Miss Kate, contact Amy Arrendell, (828)329-2649.  (2, 3, and 5 day options)

April 10, 2-4 PM Handwork Group  Join Emily Ankeney, handwork coordinator, to make needle felted bunnies and chicks for the Azalea Mountain Kindergarten and for your own children.  Please bring wool roving and needles and foam.   Trinity Church has invited us to their brunch at 12 noon in the fellowship hall.

April 11, 10-11:30 AM   Kindergarten Story Time with Miss Kate.  Join our master in spontaneous storytelling, lead Kindergarten teacher, Kate Donnelly, to experience a slice of the Kindergarten day.  Bring your kindergarten age children.

April 15, 6:30 PM  Free Talk on the Waldorf Curriculum, by Jody Spanglet, Director of Ashwood Waldorf School in Rockport, Maine.  ALL considering Waldorf education, please come to this talk.  Learn the approach to academic and artistic excellence of this 90-year-old proven pedagogy.  Learn the developmental appropriateness of Waldorf methods to meet your child’s brain, body and emotional development in the healthiest way.  CHILD CARE WILL BE PROVIDED FOR A LOVE OFFERING.

April 17 2-4 PM Meet the Grades Teachers  If you are interested in your child participating in the grades programs at Azalea Mountain, please come get to know our trained and experienced, creative and inspired,  Waldorf teachers, Todd Crowe (1-2 grade) and Laura Coleman (3-4 grade).  Hear about the developmentally appropriate approach to academic and artistic excellence for bright, active children.  Hear about our Nature Immersion Day each Friday for the grades program.  For parents and 1-4^th grade children.

April 19, 3:30 PM Azalea Mountain Community Meeting  Join the joy of co-creating Azalea Mountain.  Be part of planning playground, yard sale, May Faire, Lazure painting two classrooms, making and gathering classroom furniture and materials, and getting the word out!  All welcome.  Child care available for a love offering.

For more information about application/enrollment to Azalea Mountain Cooperative for the 2011-2012 year, please go to www.azaleamountain.org, or contact Ashley Masters, amdambrosi@gmail.com, or Amy Arrendell, (828)329-2649.