Connection. Interaction. Response.

Connection. Interaction. Response.
Cultivating children's love of learning through wonder, diversity, and the power of nature connection, promoting encounters that highlight our interconnectedness with our fragile and beautiful earth!
We will learn, explore, observe, journal, investigate current environmental topics about our lands, Native cultures, and influential people involved in the preservation of wild places, native plants, native wildlife, water, atmosphere, energy, and human issues in our local lands and beyond.

All the while facilitating your child's healthy Social - Emotional Development as we build a safe community and tribe together!

Here are the Core subjects your child will engage in:
Naturalist History Learning: Life Science, and our Eco Earth Sciences, field guide study, and history.
Language Arts: Reading, Creative Writing, Poetry, Nature Note booking, Eco Journalists
Wild Math Curriculum for your learner
Sciences: Life sciences, botany, sustainability, and food science, earth science, environmental sciences,
Wildlife Tracking: Ecology, wildlife, empathy, pattern recognition, and mapping.
Wild Crafts: Handcraft, materials selection, and sustainable harvesting.
Ecology: Biology, the scientific method, and local ecosystems, regenerative bio studies, botany, wild and medicinal plants
Ornithology (birds)and Bird Language
Village Creation Team leadership, community skills, public speaking by sharing and listening.
Silent Movement Stealth skills, balance, physical exercise through fun and play

Here is a general list of Core skills your child has engaged in, in our September programs

• The BEan Core Values Our 'To Be Commitments'

• Hazards and Safety Awareness of the Location they are at

• Knife Safety Rules

• Tree Safety Rules

• Responsible Harvest

• Bird Language and ID

• Ecological Tracking and Awareness

• Sit Spot - a pause moment in nature, to be present in the moment and observe what is going on around you in nature.

• Fire by Friction demo- fire safety, how to build a fire (some classes haven't gotten to yet)

• Nature Journaling -appropriate per age

• Regenerative topics such as: regenerative farming, composting, gardening, and creating healthy soil

• What can your child look forward to for our Fall Learning?

  • We are running, playing, adventuring, wild crafting, making tea, learning ancient living skills, cooking over our fires and crafting near our fires, creating debris shelters and urban hide out shelters, sharing and telling stories, crafting with sticks, fibers, and earth’s gifts, hunting for mushrooms, and hidden animal hide outs, and reading stories by the fire... all these activities we love to do to HAVE FUN OUTSIDE IN COOLER WEATHER!
    

Here is a list of the vast earth education, we will learn together this Fall and into the Winter and Spring months, as we follow the seasons out on the land:

Environmental Stewardship education, connecting us to the earth, the food we eat and ecological harvesting

• stewardship and care taking of our lands

• sustainability

• honorable (ecological) harvesting

Nature Awareness skills to strengthen our connection to our world

• experiential awareness-based nature games

• habitat exploration

• animal-life discovery: adaptations, life cycles, tracking, and forensics through the seasons

• insect discovery, life cycles and adaptations

• safe animal encounters

• bird-life discovery: language and identification

• cultural music in our opening circle each day

Ancient Living skills useful for the explorer

• medicinal plant identification and wilderness first aid

• edible plants, foraging, discovery and knowledge

• wild crafting

• shelter building for comfort or survival

• outdoor cooking

• ancient living technologies with wood and stone

• Basic hazard identification, wild edibles and medicines

• essential survival skills

• Clay Lab (Thursdays)

Nature Journaling, Science investigations and Writing with nature; discovering the beauty around us

• Becoming Ecology Journalists

• Create Poetry

• Nature sketching and journaling

• Naturalist sit-spot discovery

• Art with wild crafting, clay, water colors and more

• Natural History

• Field guide discovery

• and more!