Here's a large selection of verses recited throughout the day at Steiner schools.
Morning Verse
"The sun with loving light
Makes bright for me each day.
The soul with spirit power
Gives strength into my limbs.
In sunlight shining clear
I reverence, O God,
The strength of humankind
Which thou, so graciously,
Hast planted in my soul
That I, with all my might,
May love to work and learn
From thee comes light and strength
To thee rise love and thanks."
Morning Kindergarten Verse example:
"Good morning, dear sun. Good morning, dear earth.
Good morning dear stones, and flowers every one.
Good morning dear animals, and the birds in the trees.
Good morning to you, and good morning to me."
Numbers
"When at first we look at One
We find it in the shining sun.
For me and you,
we count one, two.
The day, the night
The good, the bad
The gay, the sad
The girl, the boy
We count with joy
They all are twos
That we can use."
In order to really understand the verses it is necessary to understand that Steiner saw Christ as a Sun God. Also note the balancing of opposites. Every detail in the Steiner environment is there for a purpose. Nothing that does not meld with theosophy/anthrosophy is included in the physical or intellectual environment.
This prospectus starts off by proclaiming "Waldorf Education is Non-Sectarian" and goes on to paint a wooly picture of new ageish harmony, including the phrase 'A fundamental tenet underlying the Waldorf school and community experience is a recognition of the human spiritual dimension..' This one, again in the US is a bit more upfront about the so called spiritual aspect of its mission. The prospectus touches many buttons with use of the words holistic, sustainable, morally responsible, mindfulness, social justice, renewal, egalitarian, and is also apparently prepared to be flexible wrt fees. '..we want Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School centered by Waldorf education and anthroposophy to be strong and vital and self-renewing: living lightly on the earth, holding each other and nature/the spiritual world in reverence and depth of understanding . . . imagining, modeling and communicating a vision of a healthy community among and within healthy communities.' More than the usual percentage of teachers in an elementary school, I would imagine, have studied in Germany/Denmark. The word 'joy' keeps on cropping up in Steiner literature it makes me wonder if there's another meaning to it in anthroposophy just as there seems to be a different meaning to the term 'developmental stages' from that understood by most prospective parents. The phrase 'Kraft durch Freude' keeps on springing to my mind.