Autumn Moler
Grades 1-4 Vocals & Flutes Teacher
Grades 1-5 Movement Teacher
6-8 P.E. Teacher
I first came to City of Fountains school in 2013 when my youngest son attended Kindergarten with Ms. Dory and I served as a substitute teacher. Originally Montessori-trained, I started my adventures in Waldorf education teaching at Children’s Song, a home-based program in Kansas City, where my children attended while I apprenticed with the director in order to open my own home-based Waldorf-inspired program in Parkville called Forest Haven. I took a hiatus from Waldorf education for a bit to offer shamanic healing, yoga, and sound therapy, working at a holistic health center and offering birth doula services. I returned to City of Fountains School in 2021, where I now have the great joy of teaching Grades 1-4 Music, Grades 1-5 Movement and Grades 6-8 P.E. I have had the immense benefit of ongoing mentorship with Elizabeth English, a Waldorf music teacher who has taught in Chicago for over 25 years. I have attended the SongWeavers of Maine Waldorf music workshop and also completed a Waldorf lower grades music training with Melody D’Sousa, a Waldorf music teacher in India. I also taught music for the LifeWays early childhood teacher training in Oklahoma City.
I have a deep and abiding love for our school, especially our children. Sharing my days with the children is a gift and my life as their teacher is blessed beyond measure. I adore our community festivals and the beauty and connection we cultivate together. Outside of school, I spend my time reading, being in nature, drumming and singing with friends, and playing my ukulele and my flute, mostly with my cat as my audience. I also love hiking, exploring the city, and traveling with my beloved husband, Daniel. Our three children are all grown and we spend as much time with them as we can!
Movement
Moving and playing games together enables students to move fully, know who they are and enter into a more healthy relationship with the world and its requirements. As the body moves becoming stronger and more agile, so does the mind reflexively become more creative and flexible, able to form stronger mental images.
Movement and games classes are joyful and fun. They engage students in a variety of modalities of movement that build a greater awareness of and intentionality with their body and self. They encourage a deeper connection to the realm of outer-awareness to others and the world at large.
In class, students participate in activities such as Zoo exercises, bean bag and racquetball games, jump rope, hand claps, cooperative and competitive group games, pentathlon training, folk dance, and improvisation.
