FERN GULLY
FOREST SCHOOL
Program Info
Playful Outdoor Education
You Choose the Days of the Week that Work Best for your Family
We are devoted to holistic education and supporting children’s physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual development. We encourage healthy social connections and provide nature adventures that boost children's immune systems, confidence and overall well-being and resiliency.
In all of our programs, children learn through exploring nature and exercising their creativity and incredible minds, bodies, and spirits. We celebrate each unique being and help them grow more capable and confident!
We focus on social-emotional awareness, compassionate communication, kindness, and respect for self, others, and the natural world.
Nature Creativity
Children learn through imaginative play, curiosity, observation, experimentation, exploring nature, making art, and gardening. We develop awareness through observing nature, asking questions and celebrating the seasons to connect to the cycles and wisdom of the wild. Our curriculum is nature-based and child-centered. We customize it to meet each child's unique needs with space and encouragement for them to follow their individual interests. Like all of our programs, the Nature Creativity classes emphasize social-emotional skills, self-awareness, compassion, communication, gratitude, and respect for self, others, and the natural world.
Music Days
Tuesdays and Thursdays, in addition to our daily nature-based activities, such as imaginative exploration, creative expression, plant and animal identification, reading aloud, and storytelling, children develop their cognitive abilities and team building with learning how to make music together and build awareness of their feelings and bodies with mindfulness practices, games, songs, dance and yoga. Little Wild Ones are encouraged to cultivate compassion, courage, and collaborative innovation. Rhythm time, nature-based seasonal songs, creative stories, music, cooperative games, dance, and play make up the unique curriculum. Children in our programs recognize and celebrate their authentic expression, as they witness and help each other grow more capable, creative, and confident!
Yoga & Mindfulness
In all of our programs we incorporate team building games, kids' yoga, meditation, mindfulness practices, dance, music and expressive arts. We build essential life skills that children can carry with them into adulthood, including increased body awareness, strength and flexibility, self-expression, confidence and emotional regulation skills.
This is done through a playful, emergent, and amusing exploration of the cycles of life, lessons from nature as our greatest teacher, emotional awareness and social skills with story time, puppets, instruments, juggling scarves, yoga, music, art, creative activities and more!