The roots of our learning community are nature-based education, creative free play, social emotional growth, and a living arts curriculum offered in a family style, loving home environment. From this foundation we offer meaningful activities and fun hands-on projects.
Here are some of our unique offerings with links to our documentation blog:
Here are some of our unique offerings with links to our documentation blog:
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Learning with the Garden
Our garden is a living classroom. We steward the health of our community and our planet by passionately teaching about food and regenerative farming. As we learn how to grow and prepare our own healthy food and medicine we develop our capacity to be environmentally conscious global citizens and to thrive on the earth as a beneficial keystone species. The Garden is our Teacher Learning with our Senses |
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Social-Emotional Development
Cultivating a culture of kindness and an environment that supports self awareness and self regulation is of high priority in our learning community. We weave in breathwork, non-violent communication, and emotional regulation skills to support our whole community in riding the waves of life together in the most peaceful way possible: Cultivating Peacemakers Love and Cooperation Emotional Intelligence |
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Nature Education & Forest School Days
Every day we enjoy nourishing a deep nature connection. Inspired by forest schools around the globe we follow a holistic, learner-centric approach and co-create the foundation for a reverent and conscious relationship with the natural world: Benefits of Nature Education Spring Flowers Wonders of Worms |
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Waldorf Wisdom
Our Waldorf-inspired daily rhythm supports us in feeling a deep harmony with nature and our seasonal rhythm connects us more to the cycles of life in the natural world. Environmental themes, the kids moon club, and seasonal celebrations support our connection to the universal rhythm and nurture a natural experience of kinship with all of life. Learning with Rhythm Developing the 12 Senses |
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Creative Free Play
Unstructured free play creates the space for freedom, exploration, and discovery. When children are allowed ample time to play they intrinsically make the connection that learning is fun, they discover what truly makes their hearts sing, and they develop the power and inspiration to follow their bliss: Why We Love to Play |
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Healthy Cooking Classes
Cooking is an organic experience that invokes wonder through various textures, smells, and tastes. Our cooking classes offer numerous benefits including laying the foundation for basic math concepts, advancing motor skills, supporting self-esteem, and nourishing healthy eating habits: Cooking with Children Top 10 Benefits of Cooking with Kids |
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Mindfulness, Movement, and Music
We enjoy yoga, dance, embodiment practices, and other brain boosting physical exercises followed by singing and music making with a variety of musical instruments. We also practice mindfulness tools that help us create a gentle and accepting attitude of the present moment: Let's Make Music! Magic of Mindfulness |
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A Love of Language
We love to explore language and literacy through storytelling, puppet shows, fairy tales, mythology, song writing, book making, creative arts, and theatrical improvisation. For children that show writing and reading readiness we have an abundance of Montessori tools and games that support literacy development. Hands-on Literacy Inspire a Love of Language |
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Creative Arts
Our creative arts projects are process-based and inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach. We offer a wide variety of mediums for children to create freely with and invite local artists to bring in new projects and model creative skills. Guiding Principles of Reggio Emilia Learning with Loose Parts Raising Creative Thinkers |
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Hands-on Science
Young science lovers engage with fun experiments and interesting projects. We explore the patterns of nature and naturally learn about biology, physics, and chemistry through hands-on scientific inquiry: Mad Scientists Amazing Geology |
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Foundations of Math
Hands-on mathematical explorations are offered that are designed to engage a variety of learning styles presented through group projects (building garden beds/running a farm stand...), fun games (graphing a scavenger hunt/dice-movement games...), and outdoor learning (patterns in nature/sundials...): Exploring Math in Play |
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STEAM Education
We offer hands-on 'maker' and STEAM projects that foster creativity and innovation. Using our fully stocked workshop we learn how to safely use a variety of tools and apply those skills to art, engineering, science, and tinkering prompts: Brain Building with STEAM Education Wonders of Woodworking Fun with Force and Motion |
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Global Learning
Each cycle we learn about a new area of the world with projects inspired by geography, world cultures, historical figures, famous artists, and cooking around the globe in a fun group environment: Greek Tzakziki Flowers Austrian Jam Cookies |
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Bilingual Learning
We weave in Spanish words throughout our day, learning numbers, colors, and basic words for the world around us in our daily projects and in our Hola Yoga classes. We often have a native Spanish speaker as a teacher or volunteer parent to guide us in our bilingual development: Hola Yoga |
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Educational Field Trips
We love to meet up for field trips that support the various themes arising in our project based learning. We enjoy museums, farms, plays, geological sites, artist studios, music studios, local businesses and more: Marvels of Mammals |
To visit our program in person, come see us at an upcoming open house or email us to schedule a visit.
"There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where the colors are brighter, the air is softer and the morning more fragrant then ever."
- Elizabeth Lawrence
- Elizabeth Lawrence