Happy Spring Everyone, and welcome back (or for the first time!) to Forest and Nature School. We had a great week at Bygone Days exploring our property and reaping some of nature’s sweet benefits! All week long our main focus was Maple Syrup leaving students with first-hand experience and a better understanding of the science …
Hey Folks! We welcomed new and old friends back to Forest School this week to kick off our Spring Session. And our Chickadees dove right back in the fun and excitement with awe-inspiring imaginations. After getting to know each other better and playing some games of “Monster” we headed out on our daily adventure with …
Hey Everyone, We celebrated the end of our Winter session this week in many different ways! Most days it was more of a Spring Celebration – until Friday when Winter returned! Tuesday Chickadees dove into some imaginative play around the pond upon arrival. Finding huge ice crystals, gnomes homes and good ol’ rock throwing (nothing …
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Hey Folks! What a creative week of reclaiming and recycling wood with beautiful sunshine for the duration! Our objective this week was to work on projects – which encompasses a whole lot as you’ll see below. It’s our hope that our students become competent and comfortable using drills, saws, hammers and various other tools! Let’s …
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Hey Folks! Now, at Forest School, we learn to love all sorts of weather – rain, snow and even hail – but when we get a beautiful sunny day like we had with our Chickadees today, we just had to take advantage. It didn’t take long during our initial free play for gloves to come …
This week at Forest School was special in that our classes had planned in advance their “perfect” Forest School Day and we set out to achieve these goals. Thus we had some very different looking days this week, and here’s a quick recap. Wednesday Our overarching theme of the day was camping out and so …
With the wild and mild temperature, our Forest School turned into what seemed like one big giant puddle! Students took full advantage of this and had a blast splashing in it, breaking ice, and getting stuck in mud (you may have noticed their clothes…). After reading “The Giving Tree” and finding our woolly bear caterpillar …
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We had another wonderful week at Forest School and quite the range in activities too! On Wednesday, students worked hard to clear off the ice rink and we enjoyed skating away the morning! We even had a lesson from a Snowy Owl, including some basic skating drills and tips on a variety of ways to …
What a beautiful day we had with our Chickadees on Tuesday at FNS! After our ceremonial cleansing smudge and morning circle, we started our day with wonderful and imaginative play in the snow that led to us chasing one another, following tracks of all of our animal friends, and building forts, tunnels and fires. During …
Hi Folks! What a fun week we had learning about ice safety and ice fishing! We had the opportunity to explore the big pond at Bygone Days and were thankful that the ice was thick enough to allow us to try our hand at ice fishing! In fact, it was SO thick that we could …