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Learn more about our Nature Kindergarten (3.8-6 year olds) & Forest Fridays (Grades 1-4)
Forest School Day 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.
Nature Kindergarten
The word Kindergarten means “garden of children.” A place where children are nourished to blossom and grow. Our new Nature Kindergarten is a play and place-based educational program. It is about growing nature connected kids from a young age. This means kids who are calmer, more aware, compassionate and joyful. Through song, story, games, artistic expression, guided wanders and free play, these young kids have a naturally deep awareness and curiosity: they know some of the local plants, watch for animal tracks, listen to the birds, and give thanks to the natural world. Your child will benefit from a warm, nurturing environment that put nature and the child at play at the centre of learning.
