Forest School Sessions
Our Forest School day sessions run during the school year with children attending once a week. These sessions are great for families who wish to combine Forest School Programming with traditional schooling or home-schooling. This model is meant to complement conventional learning by supporting children in developing and deepening skills and interests that support the development of the whole child to become grounded, resilient, capable and service-minded.
Forest Fridays are about having fun and being in the woods, and also about developing, from a young age, an ethic of stewardship, reciprocity, and respectful relationship. A typical day will see us engaging in a wide variety of nature-based skills and inquiry based learning. We practice bird language, deep listening to the plants and the land, ethical plant harvesting, folk methods for simple herbal remedies, storytelling, and song lines, and games that teach social-emotional awareness.
We also provide lots of opportunities for healthy risk-taking and confidence building (through use of tools, shelter building, mapping, and fire building).
Guest community artists and mentors regularly visit our program to create a deeply personalized experience for the children that further sparks creativity, curiosity and connection for our participants.