Hey Folks! We had an amazing day at Forest School this week, and with it being March Break we wanted to take advantage of inside and outside activities, even if it was -18 with wind chill! We touched back to a topic we focused on last week, which was all about our community, and headed …
Hi Folks! Collingwood is a community that offers activities for every season and for all ages, and at Forest School we tend to stay in the woods and discover nature and explore the unknown, but for this week we wanted to take our day outside of our classroom and discover what is available in our …
Hey Everyone, This week at Forest School we took a look at Community Building. We started off with some team-building games then brainstormed all sorts of ideas about what is community and what makes a community. There were a lot of interesting insights, from thoughts about our Forest School community, to our Collingwood (and beyond) …
Hi Friends, Mother nature is playing games with us, she’s not sure if she want to leave like a lamb or go out like a lion, but that didn’t stop us from exploring the wonderful world of Maple syrup. This morning was the start of whittling, and our students were super excited about the idea …
Hey Friends, With the temperatures rising, and the snow disappearing, our Winter semester is slowly melting away. The good news? Maple sap is-a-flowin’. We started our day off with a Macro Model we created called Sappy, Sappy. In this activity, students slid into the roles of sap collection in an epic sap flow vs spiles …
Hi Friends! This week brought another great day at Forest School, and today was all about Nature Photography and spending time looking at nature from different points of view. We also enjoyed games, our weekly check ins, reflection time and exploration. A large portion of our day was spent playing around with cameras, and taking …
***This is an archived post from 2017 – our programs are still suspended until further notice – March 2020*** Hey Folks, Students had the opportunity this week to play around with photography. We got up close and personal with nature and had the chance to see things through a completely new lens. We started the …
Hi Friends! We were expecting bitter cold, blowing wind, lots of snow, and we came incredibly prepared with our helmets, goggles, extra layers, warm socks and positive attitudes! But low and behold, we were graced with a beautiful, sunny day, light snow and lots of powder! Before we went skiing we wanted to take some …
Hey Everyone, We had two great days at Scenic Caves this week! Tuesday we had sunny, warm weather and Wednesday we had some freshly fallen snow to ride in. After a quick lesson on how to ski and how to fall from fellow Forest School Teacher, Krista, we were off to the trails. We had …
Hi Everyone! We don’t think we could have asked for a better winter day to enjoy our first adventure with Ice fishing! There was an abundance of emergent learning, along with some role play learning! This was another week diving into our “knot book” and taking the time to learn some key knots of the …
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