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Fall Week Three (September 27-October 1)
Tuesday Homeschool Program – Cole Harbour Fiona blew through quick, but left the Atlantic Provinces with SO much cleanup, and unfortunately, once again, we were forced to postpone yet another program due to this major storm. Wednesday Forest Pups – Kiwanis Park Did someone say mud pies?! This group seems to start every week with…
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Winter Programs Week Four & Week Two (February 22&23)
Wednesday Forest School – Cole Harbour At Wild Child we do our best to cater to the needs of our community. Due to a last minute change in our programs this winter, our Wednesday program has been running at three hours a week, whereas the Thursday program is scheduled for four. With a lot of…
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Winter Programs Week Three & Week One (February 15&16)
Wednesday Forest School – Cole Harbour Although we were sad to have had to cancel our Tuesday climbing program this week due to a winter storm, the storm left us with the perfect wintery day at forest school on Wednesday. Once again we were able to break out the sleds and the hot chocolate and…
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Winter Climbing Week Three (February 9&14)
Thursday Climbing – Decathlon This group quite literally comes in the door running … and most don’t stop until their parents are calling them out of the gym. This week the students were eager to try out their trick shots on the basketball net and archery target. The Jump Shot The Backwards Shot And The…
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Winter Programs Week Two (February 8)
Wednesday Forest School – Cole Harbour This week at forest school had MUCH less snow than the last! And though this meant we spent less time (no time) sledding, the students were eager to spend their time building forts! We spent most of the day playing around “Bumblebee camp.” The students spent their time building,…
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Winter Climbing Week Two (February 2nd & 7th)
Thursday Climbing – Decathlon Week one in the gym was focused on getting comfortable on the climbing wall ; week two we began to introduce new challenges. This one student was the first and only student so far to complete our two challenges: racing a leader up the wall and traversing horizontally across the wall…
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Winter Programs Week One (February 1-3)
Wednesday Forest School – Cole Harbour I often share a lot of gratitude to the beautiful weather we get many days at forest school…but this day was one greater than we could have ever wished. The perfect, wintery, first day of winter forest school programs. The sun glistened through the powdery snow covered trees; keeping…
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Winter Climbing Week One (January 26 & 31)
Thursday Climbing Program What better way to start off a new year than with a new program! On Thursday we held our first (of many) Decathlon partnered program and it was unsurprisingly a huge success! We were joined by students from Forest School (from multiple different classes), and by some new students; we even had…
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Late Fall Saturday Programs (November 19 – December 10)
The same FUN group, with a new location! For our late fall programs we have taken advantage of our access to Kiwanis Park in Cole Harbour and it’s regulations allowing for us to have campfires. And many campfires were enjoyed by this class! Though everyone loves a good fire, nothing brings people together quite like…
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Late Fall Thursday Programs (November 17 – December 8)
Late Fall Thursday Programs were located in Blue Mountain Birch Cove Wilderness area, just as the Thursday’s beforehand. Our Late fall program consisted of many of the same students from the fall, with the loss of a few. We would normally run our program towards the “Hobson Lake Trail” side of the area, but decided…
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Late Fall Wednesday Programs (November 16 – December 7)
In order to transition into our first winter of offering programs with Wild Child Forest School, we offered a “Late Fall” program. This program was four weeks long and structured around the reality that the weather may get in the way of us completing the four full sessions before the holidays. Our late fall programs…