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"If the kids are just outside all day, what are they actually learning?"

11 Ways to Transform Your Backyard into a Learning Space for Kids

a guest post published on September 24, 2021 by Mike Cahill of REDFIN real estate Providing our children with the opportunity to learn...

S.T.E.A.M at Painted Oak

written by Patricia Haddad What it is: Science - Intellectual activity involving systematic study of the physical and natural world...

Classroom Spotlight: The Roots Room

This week was all about finding ways to care for ourselves, one another, and our space. We began the week by learning to care for one...

Nature Notes Journal - January 2020

We entered the Forest in the New Year full of fresh ideas! With our feet now firmly rooted in Winter, the children had more practice...

Nature Notes Journal - November 2019

As November began here in central New Jersey, we found ourselves firmly rooted in the middle of Autumn - leaves were changing color from...

Getting The Scoop on Dirt

This gorgeous day saw the Branches enjoying time with the Leaves and Roots in a wet, muddy Backyard before gathering for our all-school...

A Colony in the Grove

We began the day with the whole school in The Backyard, where the Friday tradition of singing Rattlin' Bog had everyone jumping and...

What learning looks like at Nature School

"This all looks fun...but what are they actually learning? Will my child be ready for grade school? What does the transition from nature...