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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 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 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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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…
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Fall 2022 Recap (September 13 – November 10)
Tuesday Fall Programs – Cole Harbour Heritage Park This fall was the first time we have offered two programs during the week (primarily catering to the home-schooling community) in two separate locations. This meant building new relationships and expectations was going to be an important part of our season. Of our five students in…
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Fall Week Eight (November 1-November 5)
Tuesday Homeschool Program – Cole Harbour It doesn’t happen very often, but every once in awhile we manage to experience a whole day in the forest without taking a single picture; today was one of those days. It was a drizzly last day of fall programs for these wild children, but that didn’t stop them…
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Fall Week Six (October 18-October 22)
Tuesday Homeschool Program – Cole Harbour It felt like mushroom season came so much later this season than previous years – but its here! Hand-in-hand with with mushroom season comes cold and flu season; we missed many students this week in the forest. Though our class was smaller than usual we enjoyed spending much…
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Fall Week One (September 13-17)
Tuesday Homeschool Program – Cole Harbour We are so excited to begin our fall season by offering a new program! We have been running a weekday – spring and fall – homeschooling program in Bedford for several years, but this is the first time we’ve been fortunate enough to run out of both Bedford and…
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Spring Recap 2022
Well that’s a wrap! Six weeks truly has never gone so fast. Our spring and fall programs are unique in the sense where we get the opportunity to spend one day a week together over a series of weeks. This method of learning allows for the students to see the forest change around them, giving…