What is a Forest School?
Forest School is play-based and child centered, where the educators take cues from the students as to what they would like to investigate. The children involved in Forest School gain many insights, including an enhanced knowledge of their local environment. Forest School learning can take place on or off of school grounds and can happen on a weekly basis or more or less often (Harris, 2017). When children are outside, they can learn differently - with more physicality. The children are able to run and explore. Forest School lends itself to child-lead learning, or inquiry-based learning (Harris, 2017). At the Guelph Outdoor School we call this nature immersion programming.
On the Trail of a Turkey - A Winter Break Camp Story
It was the first day of the Winter Break camp. We had just had a little more than a dusting of snow come down over the past couple days. Enough snow to find some fresh and older tracks in the snow. I knew we were in for some good tracking today. Did the kids know? I am not sure, but none of us could have expected what was going to happen today!
