The school day begins with a long, uninterrupted Main Lesson (1 1/2 to 2 hours). One subject is the focus; the class deals with it in-depth each morning for 2 to 5 weeks at a time, depending on the age group. This long main lesson allows the teacher to develop a wide variety of activities around the subject. In the younger grades, lively rhythmic activities get the circulation going and bring children together as a group. They recite poems connected with the subject being taught, practice tongue twisters to limber up speech, and work with concentration exercises building both large and small motor skills. Beyond the motor skills, the movement helps will learning to focus and concentrate.

After the Morning Lesson, students record what they learned in their notebooks—Main Lesson Books. Following the first recess of the day, teachers present shorter lessons (40-50 minutes) in the areas of Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies and Science that help the students to work on honing skills, practicing those skills and embellishing lessons infused with the arts. Foreign languages are customarily taught from first grade on twice a week. The remainder periods are devoted to lessons in Eurythmy (artistically guided movement to music and speech), handwork (i.e. knitting, crocheting, sewing and felt work), art (painting, drawing, clay modeling, woodwork, and in high school stone work), and Movement (PE/Physical fitness/cooperative games).

All of these lessons as a whole help to develop the child’s skill in academics, physical balance and social interaction. In the grades the class teachers ideally continue with a class from one year to the next (grades 1-8), though this is not always the case, as life sometimes happens. Other teachers handle special subjects, but the class teachers provide the continuity so often lacking in our disjointed world today. The class teacher and the children get to know each other very well, and it is this teacher who becomes the school's closest link with the parents of that class.