Like Grade Two, of which it is many ways a "mirror image," Grade Six presents students with a number of polarities. Two natural sciences are studied this year: Astronomy, which encourages students to look up to the heavens above them, and Mineralogy, which compels them to keep their eyes on the ground below them. (It is hoped that these opposites lead to the balance that comes readily in Grade Five, but which is much more elusive in Grade Six.) In both sciences, a lot of time is spent outdoors: observing the stars, the sun, and the moon, or traversing rocky terrain to uncover the solid foundations below their feet. And, as in all Waldorf school sciences, everything experienced and learned is given artistic expression. --Notes by Eugene Schwartz
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