Outdoor Elementary Education:
Forest Microschool
Experience joy in learning through connection with nature!
Get outside and thrive!
Seeds of Love Collective
Seeds of Love Collective empowered teachers, families, and students to collaborate and support each other in developing holistic educational pathways in connection with nature.
* Due to increased feedback and requests, they made vaccinations optional at the beginning of their 3rd year.
OWLS & Forest Skills classes are now closed. Brooke accepted a full-time teaching position at Canyon Elementary as their 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade teacher.
Expand Community
Be Kind & Safe
Appreciate Languages, Cultures and Neurodiversity
Play Cooperative Games
Team Work Makes the Dream Work
Explore Nature
Consistent Sites: Camp Herms, El Cerrito; Tilden Nature Area, Berkeley
Summer 2024 Site: Wildcat Canyon, Richmond
Occasional Sites: Lake Anza, Berkeley; Oakland Zoo, Albany Bulb, Albany; Joaquin Miller, Oakland
Experience Joy
Morning Message/Meeting & Greetings
Sit Spot
Literacy Support
Skill Building
Roses, Buds, and Thorns
The Bay Area Open Wilderness Literacy and Science (OWLS) forest microschool class facilitated a kind and safe community for children ages 6-11 to enjoy authentic, hands-on learning experiences outdoors to cultivate community, friendships and joy in learning!
Individualized and Differentiated Academic & Social/Emotional Support
•Reading •Writing •Scientific Knowledge Development
The Days Exploring Nature (DEN) Summer microschool class facilitates a kind and safe community for children ages 6-12 to enjoy exploring the outdoors to cultivate community, friendships, and joy!
Personalized Nature Knowledge Development & Social/Emotional Support
•Hiking •Plant & Animal ID •Community Nature Journaling •iNaturalist Citizen Science
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