An outdoor day
From the gate to the last circle
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday share one shape, so students know what comes next. Only the walk and the afternoon change.
- 8:30
Step 1: Arrival at the meadow gate
A guide stands at the gate. Boots go on, bags go on the hooks under the shelter, and the day begins with a circle.
- 9:00
Step 2: The morning walk
The group walks the ridge trail, the creek bank or the garden beds, with a notebook for what it sees and counts.
- 11:30
Step 3: Lunch under the oaks
Families send lunch. We eat together on blankets and tables in the meadow when the weather lets us.
- 12:30
Step 4: Making and reading outdoors
Shelters, maps, clay or a story read aloud on the lawn, with younger and older students at the same blanket.
- 2:15
Step 5: Notebooks and the last circle
Everyone writes or draws one page about the day and shares one thing they noticed.
- 3:00
Step 6: Pickup at the gate
Families wait by the gate. A guide walks each student out and checks the name on the pickup list.
The room days
A long table and a quiet corner
Thursday and Friday are in the room, on the ground floor of the schoolhouse. The long table is where reading and writing happen in two groups by age, and the low shelves hold the math materials, the paper and the clay.
The windows open onto the meadow, and the day ends with the Friday meeting and a note home to every family.
Reading and writing in two groups by age
Math with materials from the low shelves
Making: wood, clay and cloth
A Friday meeting and a note home
What a week holds
Four things come back every week
The guides plan around the weather and the group, and these four stay.
Reading and writing
Every day, in groups by age. Students read, write and talk about what they read.
Math
Counting stones, weighing the harvest and a daily hour with materials in the room.
A nature notebook
One page a day about what the group saw, heard or measured outdoors.
Making
Wood, clay, cloth, rope and tarps, with younger and older students at the same table.
See a week for yourself
Book a visit day, or come to an open house in the fall.