Fall 2024 – Spring 2025
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Daily opportunities to build social, emotional, academic, and wilderness skills. Mentors offer engaging projects each day, with a wide variety of choices for different ages and abilities. Projects range from nature based crafts, to wild food processing and cooking on the fire, learning math through games and Montessori inspired lessons, science experiments, wilderness and naturalist skills including shelter building, knot tying, bird language, tracking, and more.
2024-2025 Updates What is Self Directed Learning
Early drop off and extended day meet at the Teaching Grove where we’ll play games, relax by the fire or wood stove and have access to the White Ash Learning Library.
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Just a few of the benefits of a self-directed, nature-based learning environment:
• Whole child development
• Increased fine and gross motor skills
• Increased language and communication skills
• Integrative approach to incorporating academic subjects
• Self-directed: based on participant interests and observations
• Practice regulating one’s own behavior
• Increase competence in social interactions and collaborative skills
• Development of problem solving skills and independent thinking
• Curriculum is not pre-scripted but instead inspired through nature-based play and skill building
• Deepening relationship with the more than human world
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Notes from the Field
Peach Hand Pies & Sumacade
Summer Recipes Food and foraging projects tend to be some of our most popular activities at summer sessions. This past week at Thistle Pond, we baked peach filled hand pies on the fire, and enjoyed... Read More
Wild Discovery Semester Program Updates
Registration is now open for the Wild Discovery Semester Program 2024 – 2025 Login into your Amilia account for registration options. We’ve been enjoying the new areas where we’ve moved the tent and fire circle,... Read More