Forest school fun!

🌧Weekly Educator tips☔️: We love puddle jumping (swimming??) and going for a hike in a sprinkle, but sometimes the thunderstorms leave us indoors. What to do? 1. Run to the library! Grab some art idea books, STEM activities that use recycled it
Making a natural taproot of burdock leaves to collect mulberries. #Mulberries #ForestSchooling #Unschooling #NatureBasedEducation #NatureBased #NatureBasedEducation #OutdoorEducation #OutdoorSchool #LearningByDoing #FSIL #ForestSchoolsForIllinois #C
This kiddo started off the year being scared of spiders and on the last day before summer he asked me to put a jumping spider on him and he lovingly and cutiously watched his new spider friend climb all around his clothes. #Biophilia #Spiders #Jump
Trying Juneberries thr kids were picking. They could only reach a fee branches so they had to innovate ways to get the berries higher up. This usually resulted in team work. One of the children gently holding the branch down and another picking the
Forest Families released 10 butterflies that hatched lady week. The children were so gentle with the butterflies. There were long moments of quiet watching and bursts of excitement as they took off #ForestSchool #FSIL #butterflies #ChicagoKids #ChiB
☀️Weekly Educator tips🌊: In our part of the world, the weather has done a full turn to hot, hot, hot! 🔥 If you’re like me, you are still hesitant to put away the giant Winter coats (it was in the 30s just a few weeks ago)🌬, but you ALSO re
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