Summer Sessions

Nature Immersion Summer Sessions

Registration is open now

Monroe & Deer Isle | 9am – 3:30pm

Outdoor, self-directed, all weather nature immersion.

Deepen sense of wonder through games, stories, crafts and hands-on exploration of field, forest, and stream ecology. We’ll co-create and learn by investigating curiosity, exploring the water, land, and meeting the beings that live there. Naturalist skills, crafting, laughter, and unknown adventures will make these exciting weeks for all ages.

Each session shares similar activities and daily flow. We play games upon arrival, then transition to morning circle to hear about the day’s projects, sing songs, and share naturalist knowledge about our surroundings. Activities include archery, wood craft, fire tending, shelter building, swimming in the stream in Hampden or the pond in Monroe, and plenty of time to explore trails and our surroundings.

Attending multiple weeks? Participants have the opportunity to select a skills based competency badge to work on or complete one they began during Spring Semester.

Nature Immersion Overnight Sessions

Registration open now

Thistle Pond in Monroe | Ages 7 – 14

Sleep under the stars, experiment with various sleeping systems, cook on the fire, make handcrafted projects and crafts, with plenty of time to swim and play games as we spend a week together in our forest basecamp by the pond. Participants should be excited to be away from home and outdoors in all weather for the duration of the session. Contact us if you have questions about readiness for overnight camp.

Monroe

Day and Overnight Sessions

Monroe, ME 04951

Unceded Wabanaki Territory

Deer Isle

Day Session

19 Fieldstone Road

Deer Isle, ME 04681

Unceded Wabanaki Territory

Just a few of the benefits of a 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

I couldn’t be happier with Clover’s experience with White Ash Learning, the value it adds to her life to just be a free kid in nature supported by loving individuals is invaluable. If you’ve been considering sending your little one, I highly reccomend you do!!!

I have noticed beautiful expansion of Birch’s personality and self autonomy since starting this program. The container you all create for him and his peers to gather together outdoors and play and learn and support one another has brought him so much joy and built his confidence. I am so thankful for finding this program. Thank you deeply.

I am so grateful for this program. Thank you for everything!!!

My 3 year old made leaps and bounds when it came to her personal space and the space of her friends during her first year. I regularly see her use phrases that I know her mentors have taught her to convey what she needs to other children her age.

It’s amazing and is helping my child blossom, hands down.

Curtis has a lot of fun with the experience and looks forward to it every day!

Our grandson was able to make some really good friends and learn how to be social without having us around to cue him as to what to do.

My 10 yr old LOVES these camps. Only organized program that he has ever unequivocally LOVED and thrived in like this.

The project based learning activities are amazing there is no traditional school that will teach him how to tan a deer hide or build a fire with just a flint and steel. He is not restricted to sitting at a desk and is allowed to explore his environment with guidance from his mentors.

I really can’t even measure how meaningful Clover’s experience has been with White Ash Learning! It’s super awesome. Keep being your wonderful selves. Clover is so happy.