Ice Slides and Cave Dwellers (and sunny, sunny days!)

Hey Everyone, This week on Tuesday we celebrated International Forest Day and Wednesday we celebrated International Water Day.  I guess the world kicks environmental protection into high gear come Spring!  And what better way to celebrate than check out some of our local protected areas! We headed out to explore some new wonders in our …

Reflections of Our Community

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) …

We may all be different fish, but in this school we swim together

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 …

Snow, Snow and more Snow!

Hi Everyone! Today we welcomed back winter with open arms, excited to spend our whole day exploring the snow. It couldn’t have been a more  perfect time because this week, our topic was “Snow”. We also welcomed our guest Tomoko visiting from Barrie, and moving to Japan for 2 years. She participated in our morning …

Our “Winter” Olympians

Wow! What a wonderful day for our Olympics. Though we lacked the obvious winter appeal, we made up for it in high-energy games, creative play and an incredible spirit of the games! Upon arriving at Bygone Days, students were divided and asked to choose (or create) a country (Canada vs Nepal; Greece vs The Bernese …