2023-2024 Events and Info
at a Glance
October
10/20 Professional Development Day (Staff) - NO SCHOOL
10/25 Parent Ed. Eve: Digging in Soil and Cuddling Cows - Experience the Farm Pgrm, 7 - 8:30pm
10/26 Show-of-Work, 8:30am (Grade students only)
10/31 Halloween (students only)
November
11/1 Dia de los Muertos Celebration (students only) 11/5 Family Craft Playdate, 1-4pm
11/6 Picture Day - rescheduled
11/8 Early Childhood Lantern Walk 7, Tuesday: Election Day
11/9 Parent Teacher Conferences - HALF DAY (12:30)
11/10 Parent Teacher Conferences / Veterans Day - NO SCHOOL
11/14 Picture Day
11/15 Parent Education Evening: A Main Lesson & The Importance of Forgetting, 7 - 8:30pm
11/20 Family Craft Playdate, 3-6pm
11/20 Board meeting, 5 pm
11/21 Thanksgiving Show-of-Work, 2 pm
11/22 - 24 Thanksgiving Break - NO SCHOOL
December
12/1 Winter Spiral
12/9 Elves’ Faire 11am - 3pm
12/13 St. Lucia Day (students only & Grades 2/3 parents)
Parent Education Evening: Storytelling & Nourishing the Soul, 7 - 8:30pm
12/14 Winter Concert, 6pm - Unitarian Church, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca
12/18 Board Meeting, 5pm
12/20 Singing to the Cows, 5pm
12/21 All-school Winter Assembly, 11:30am - HALF DAY (12:30)
12/22 - 1/5 Holiday Break - NO SCHOOL
January
1/8 School resumes
Re-Enrollment opens
1/12 MLK Assembly
1/15 MLK Day - NO SCHOOL
1/16 Tour Through The Grades for EC grade parents 9 - 10am
Early Childhood Parent Evening, 6 - 7:30 pm
1/18 Community Sing, 2:40pm
1/20 Workshop: Embracing Calm Knowing and Love by IWS parent Ian Tompkins, 9 - 11am
1/22 Board meeting, 5 pm
1/24 Parent Education Eve: Waldorf Curriculum - Why We Do What We Do, 7 - 8:30pm
1/30 All-School Meeting, 6 - 7pm
February
2/6 Bridge to first Grade - rescheduled EC parent evening, 6 - 7:30pm
2/8 Coffee House, 6 pm
2/9 NO SCHOOL for EC students - prof. development for EC teachers
2/15 Community Sing, 2:40pm
2/16 Show-of-Work, 8:30am (Grade students only)
2/19 - 23 February Break - NO SCHOOL
2/24 Puppet Show in Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, 1:30 & 2:30pm
2/26 Board meeting, 5 pm
2/28 Parent Education Night: The Sciences in Waldorf Education, 7 - 8:30pm
March
3/2 Open House, 10am
3/14 Parent Teacher Conferences - HALF DAY (12:30)
3/15 Parent Teacher Conferences - NO SCHOOL
3/18 Board Meeting, 5pm
3/19 Beating of the Bounds, 3:30pm
3/21 Community Sing, 2:40pm
3/27 Parent Education Evening: Observations of Child Development - What Movement Tells Me About My Child (with Carol St. John), 7 - 8:30pm
3/28 Show-of-Work, 8:30am (Grade students only)
3/29 Professional Development Day (Staff) / Good Friday - NO SCHOOL
April
4/1 - 5 April Break - NO SCHOOL 4/8 Total Solar Eclipse -NO SCHOOL
4/9 Early Childhood Parent Evening, 6:30pm
4/13 Spring Benefit, 5pm
4/15 Monday: Board meeting, 5 pm
4/22 - 23 Passover - NO SCHOOL
4/24 Parent Education Evening: Technology in Waldorf Education and at Home, 7 - 8:30pm
4/26 Show-of-Work, 8:30am (Grade students only)
May
5/4 May Faire, 10am - 2pm
5/10 Grandparents' & Special Friends’ Day
5/12 Mother's Day
5/15 Parent Education Evening: Decolonizing the Waldorf Curriculum, 7 - 8:30pm
5/16 Community Sing, 2:40pm 5/20 Board meeting, 5 pm
5/22 IWS Summer Concert, 6 - 7pm
5/27 Memorial Day - NO SCHOOL
5/30 Ithaca Parade
5/31 8th Grade Project Presentations, 5pm
June
6/3 Circus Arts Performance at Children’s Garden - all grades; 3 - 5pm
6/4 Algebra 1 Regents (for grade 8), 9am
6/6 Community Sing, 2:40pm
6/7 Last Day of School Assembly & Picnic - HALF DAY (12:30)
6/8 Graduation of Class of 2024, 10am
6/20 Earth Science Regents (for grade 8), 9am
