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grade 7
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Rudolf Steiner insisted that students in the Waldorf grade school should learn two world languages in addition to their "mother tongue." For many years, Waldorf schools in the USA taught German and French, but in the twenty first century there are many more schools teaching Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, or Russian. In the first three grades the children learn the new language the way they learned their native language -- orally, through games, poems, songs, and conversation. In Grade Four they begin to write in the language, and by Grade Seven a degree of fluency may have been attained that is also reflected in their written work. The student work on view here was created by the last group of students to study French in Green Meadow Waldorf School.
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Notes by Eugene Schwartz
