After School Program
Cedarwood offers weekly after school activities throughout the fall, winter & spring terms.
Program offerings vary each term, and are generally offered for students in grades 3-8.
Please click through to learn more about our current activities and sign-up to participate!
After school program registration is now open for Spring 2024!
Before School Care
Our Before Care Program provides a warm and nurturing space for children to begin their day at Cedarwood. We offer this option to families who need care for their children starting at 7:30 am.
The cost of Before Care is included in tuition, and the program is available for children in the early childhood program and grades 1-8. Early Childhood Before Care is limited to 8 students at this time and it is full. Please reach out to afocarino@cedarwoodschool.org if you would like to be placed on a Before Care waiting list.
Before Care is not a drop-in program. Please let us know in advance if your child will be joining — even if just for one morning! We do need at least 1 business day’s notice to welcome your child. You may contact our front office team with any questions at frontoffice@cedarwoodschool.org or by calling (503) 245-1477 during school hours.
Please let us know when to expect your child at Before Care by completing the form below.
Complimentary After School Programs
Math Lab
Grades 6-8
Tuesdays
3:15 - 4:15 pm
Instructors: Mr. Wooton & Mrs. Harrison
Please email Jo Wiersma to sign up
Practice Co-Lab
Grades 6-8
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, 3-3:30pm
Instructor: Mx. Bright
These resources are included in the cost of tuition. Please reach out to Jo Wiersma for more information about how to join in.
Extended Day
Cedarwood's Extended Day program provides a fun, engaging, and structured environment promoting indoor & outdoor free play activities as social-emotional enrichment.
Complementary to the Waldorf curriculum, free play is a form of experiential learning for the grades students. By definition, it is play, undirected by a teacher, expressed through the creative imagination of the students.
Building forts and fairy houses, free drawing, modeling with beeswax, and imaginative stick play are all examples of free play encouraged in this program. Through peer-led activities such as these, the child not only draws inspiration from the mixed age environment, but also acquires important problem-solving skills.
It is our belief that if we are to cultivate creativity in our students, we must allow space for it to develop and mature. After school play in a peer environment is an ideal scenario for the grades students to internalize the classroom content of the day. By including free play in our grades pedagogy, we are strengthening the students' will forces, deepening our ability to tap their unique genius. Paradoxically, after a school day's work is done, it is oftentimes the lack of stimulus from teachers that best supports the development of children.
With this in mind, a teacher's intentional holding of this program is paramount in establishing a hygienic social environment beneficial to students. A daily rhythm anchors each of our afternoons together. In addition to free play, this rhythm includes movement games, story, drawing, snack, and rest. An engaged teacher is keen to group dynamics and will introduce pedagogical stories, group games, and chores at varying times throughout the day. Through these activities, the teacher is modeling for the students the etiquette of work and play.