Welcome to Songbirds Playgroup!
WE'RE SORRY, SONGBIRDS PLAYGROUP IS FULL FOR THE 2025/26 SESSION
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WE'RE SORRY, SONGBIRDS PLAYGROUP IS FULL FOR THE 2025/26 SESSION 〰️
Songbirds is a small, Waldorf inspired in-home program for
2- 4 year olds, led by experienced, trained Waldorf teachers.
Cultivating Joy,
Fostering Community
During our Songbirds mornings we offer experiences that cultivate warmth, joy, and confidence through developmentally appropriate activities. Our mornings include circle games and songs, nutritious snacks that the children help make, coloring and water color painting, stories and puppet plays from around the world, and lots of free play!
Our ample outdoor space provides opportunities for sand and water play, swings and slides, gardening, digging in the dirt, and finding treasures! When the weather permits, we spend most of the day outside.
We welcome families for festival celebrations throughout the year, including Michaelmas/harvest festival, Lantern walk, Winter Spiral, Mothers’ day tea, and more. Being a smaller group, connections with other parents, sharing the joy and love of the children, and cultivating the rhythms of the year together fosters a much needed sense of community and support.
Songbirds Schedule & Cost
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Songbirds Playgroup meets Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 9am-12pm, with an optional half day until 12:30 or a full day until 3pm, September 1st 2025- May 26th 2026, with dates off listed below.
HERE IS THE SCHEDULE FOR THE ENTIRE SEASON:
September 1 - Songbirds open house 10:30 - noon
Thursday September 4th - First day!
Thursday, October 2 - Harvest/Michaelmas festival 11:15-12:30, Families welcome
Friday, October 10-13th - No Songbirds, Fall Break
Friday, October 30 - Halloween celebration, just children
Saturday, November 8 - Lantern walk
Monday, November 17- 21 - Parent teacher conferences
Monday, November 24-28 - Thanksgiving Break
Saturday, December 20 - Songbirds Winter Spiral
Monday, December 22 - Friday, January 2 - Winter Break
Monday, February 16 - 20 - Professional Development, No Songbirds
Friday, February 13 - Valentine's Day Party - Children only
March 23 - 27 - Parent Conferences
Friday, April 3 - Spring celebration, children only
Monday, April 6 - 10t - Spring Break
Thursday, May 7th - Mother’s Day tea
Tuesday, May 26th - Last Day of School
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We follow the same rhythm each time we meet, creating a sense of security and confidence in the children to know and expect what their day will be like.
A sample of our morning rhythm is:
9:00 Arrival, coloring or morning walk
9:30-10:15 Creative Play/Crafts
10:15- 10:30 Seasonal movement circle/songs
10:30- 11 Hearty snack
11 - 11:45 Potty time, creative play
11:45- 12 Puppet play or story, goodbye and pick up for half-day children **Your child has the option to stay until 12:30 to eat a packed lunch from home if this better suits your schedule.
12-1 Lunch/Half-day Pickup
1-2:30 Rest time for full-day children
2:30-3 Snack, play, and pickup for full-day children
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The cost of Songbirds is:
Half day: (9am-12pm) $60 per child per day
Full day (9am- 3pm) $100 per child per day
There is a one time $25 material fee to provide crayons, paints, etc.
Who We Are
Laurie Clark has had the privilege of being a Waldorf Early Childhood teacher for over forty years.
Laurie is a mentor to teachers across the country and teaches in several Waldorf teacher training programs.
She is a conference presenter nationally and internationally and has co-authored two books with Nancy Blanning on therapeutic movement for children entitled Movement Journeys and Circle Adventures.
Clair Boswell is a Denver native, and attended the Denver Waldorf School from kindergarten through 8th grade.
After graduating high school from Highland Hall Waldorf School in Los Angeles, California, Clair worked and traveled through the US, Europe and returned to Denver to earn a BA in Creative Writing from Metropolitan University Denver, where she enjoyed working with high school students in the Upward Bound Program.
Overseas called once again, and after volunteering at a Waldorf initiative in Kathmandu, Nepal, she pursued her Masters in Education and Waldorf training at Antioch University New England. Clair then took a job teaching Kindergarten at the Brooklyn Waldorf School for 5 years, where she helped form the school leadership and shape the early childhood program. After having her first son, Clair and her family moved back home to Denver.
Having her own children ignited enthusiasm and desire to support parents through the early years, and she began offering caregiver/child classes at Boulder Valley Waldorf School, and earned a certification in Doula training.
Clair now offers an infant/caregiver class at the Denver Waldorf School, directs and teaches Songbirds, a Waldorf inspired early childhood home program, and mentors teachers in the area. Her husband also teaches at the Denver Waldorf School, and they have two boys ages 7 and 9! When the family is not busy with school, they love camping, basketball, gardening, and traveling.
Born and raised in Colorado, Lydia Roderiguez adventured to the east coast to attend college. She graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
While serving overseas with her husband at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Lydia discovered her passion for publichealth and later returned to the U.S. to pursue a nursing degree. Since then she has worked as a nurse in a variety of hospital settings in Washington, DC and Denver. In her work at the bedside, Lydia has developed a deep understanding of the human being through health and illness.
Becoming a parent re-oriented Lydia and when her daughter began kindergarten at a Waldorf school, she was equally grateful for her daughter's education and her own introduction to a new way of being with children. Waldorf and anthroposophy provided Lydia with rich insights around human development, caregiving, and health. Lydia went on to earn a LifeWays Early Childhood Certificate and is currently enrolled in Waldorf teacher training at Gradalis. She refined her understanding of the therapeutic nature of Waldorf early childhood education working at Raphael’s Garden, a local Waldorf kindergarten.
Lydia credits Waldorf education for shaping her family’s culture with rhythm, reverence and simplicity. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge with parents and caregivers while leading the Sweetie Peas Child/Caregiver classes.
Lindsay St. Antoine is so grateful for the time she’s been so fortunate to spend caring for, growing, and learning alongside newborns to pre-teens as a nanny and “mother’s helper”.
She’s been thrilled and honored to assist for Laurie and Clair in the Songbirds Playgroup for three “school years” as well as two Songbirds Summer Camps. Beginning with the ‘25/’26 season Lindsay will no longer be a weekly part of the Songbirds family, but will be so happy to sub with the sweet Songies as needed.
The Songbirds group is a wonderful place to nurture young minds. Our child thrived both emotionally and physically. She is always excited on the days she goes to Songbirds and is happy to be with her teachers and the other children. She comes home and sings the songs she learns to her stuffed animals and has fun teaching them all the things she learned at school. We couldn't have asked for a better experience for her.