Overview
Characteristics
​Curriculum

​Primary Foundation
• Grace and Courtesy
• Three-Hour Work Cycle
• Freedom of Movement and Choice

​Grace and Courtesy
• Begins in the Primary classroom.
• Their behavior impacts the whole community,
encouraging self-regulation, manners, and goodhygiene.
• Promotes empathy through resolving social
conflicts. Each child takes turns listening and
expressing themselves without hostility and with
understanding.

​Three-Hour Work Cycle
• Beginning in Primary, the child develops deep
levels of concentration.
• Building their own abilities to concentrate gives
them respect for others who are trying to
concentrate.
• Confidence and adequacy grows, as each child
finds satisfaction in fully investing in something.