Hey Everyone, We had a fun week exploring the caves up around Metcalfe rock last week. Challenge-by- choice was the name of the game, and students pushed their limits and expanded their comfort zones as they ducked, crawled, and climbed their way down into the Earth. Most groups had the chance to visit the Ice …
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Hey Folks, We loved exploring the fall colours with our cameras this week! Students had the opportunity to learn a few photography tricks: Get Close, Point of View, Leading Lines, Rule of Thirds and Natural Framing (and looked at “Fill the Space”, “Limb Chopping”, and “Negative Space” for those interested in more techniques on Friday!) …
Hey Folks, This week at Forest School we channeled our inner Katniss Everdeen and learned all about Archery. It was a huge hit with our students. It certainly left its mark on us. We definitely hit the target with this activity…. enough silly puns – it was a great day and we hope to do …
Hey Everyone, This week at Forest School our main goal was to learn a little bit more about plants. After our morning core routines we jumped into the role of plants in a macro-model to learn about cycles and needs of a plant. We then became explorers tasked with the mission of the uncovering a …
Hey Everyone, Field Trip! And what a fun one we had. Have you ever played golf? Or thrown a Frisbee? Well, we combined the two target games for a day of Disc Golf at Duntroon Highlands Nordic Centre. They have a newly developed disc golf course on their fabulous 100 acre site. For more information …
Hey Everyone, With the temperatures finally starting to settle down (well, except for Tuesday) it’s really starting to finally feel like Fall. We celebrated this week with our annual Fall Harvest, with a big focus on local food. After spending time in our sit spots, we set out to explore our site early in the …
Hey Everyone! “It’s so… refreshing… just being in a canoe.” said one of our students while we were paddling on the Big Pond this week. And we couldn’t agree more! Our days were all about fish, fishing and paddling this week, but were very different from one another. So we’ll break it down by day. …
Hey Folks! We welcomed Summer back (or for the first time??) at Forest School this week and took advantage of the beautiful, hot days to learn some important survival skills. As we’ve said before, with emergent interests, all of our days looked very different, but we’ll sum up the highlights here. After our core routines …
Hey Folks! We’d like to extend a HUGE welcome to our new students and families and a welcome back to our returning students! We had a good start to our first week at Forest School and luckily, though it called for rain, we seemed to miss the worst of it! This week we focused on …
Wow! What a beautiful last week of Forest School! We had a wonderful time reflecting on what we’ve learned and experienced throughout the year and we sure had fun reminiscing about a lot of funny, meaningful memories that stood out! It’s so worthwhile to pause and reflect on these experiences together – so much has …