Pasadena Waldorf School Hosts Rainbow Bridge Ceremony



Back row, from left: Kindergarten teacher Kathy Rinden, rising 1st grade teacher Dennis Demanett, Kindergarten teacher Rosa Balderrama. Photos credit: Tammy Kennedy / Brett Panelli

On Wednesday, June 10, the Pasadena Waldorf School Lily and Rose Kindergarten classes hosted the school’s Rainbow Bridge Ceremony. The annual event marks the transition of the kindergarten students moving up into the grades. Kindergarten teachers Rosa Balderrama and Kathy Rinden sent the children off from the land of “imagination and play” to the land of “letters and numbers” that signifies the grades. Carrying a lily or rose flower, the students from the class of 2027 walked over the bridge, exquisitely decorated with flowers and colorful silks, where their new teacher Dennis Demanett was there to welcome them to the grades and take them to their future classroom to tell them a story.

Pasadena Waldorf School, founded in 1979, offers an inspired education to students from Early Childhood (Parent-Child, Preschool, and Kindergarten) through High School. Developed by Rudolf Steiner in 1919, Waldorf Education is based on an understanding of human development that addresses the needs of the growing child. Waldorf teachers strive to transform education into an art that educates the whole child—the heart and the hands, as well as the head. With over ninety years of experience and over 1000 schools worldwide, Waldorf Education is one of the world’s leading educational movements.

 

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