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Our 4/5th grade has caught the entrepreneurial spi

Our 4/5th grade has caught the entrepreneurial spirit! Here are their backyard chicken eggs now available to our community, complete with pictures and short bio of the actual hens who laid these beauties.

So many awesome benefits to this endeavor! It is so wonderful for a student of this age to "try on" the role of business owner. Each week two students take a turn to handle the sale, interacting with customers, make change, etc. Then they can review and add up sales and report back to their class. (The whole class decorates the cartons by hand, complete with cursive handwriting🥰) They have also brainstormed other products too, such as Lavender All purpose cleaner, and crocheted hair scrunchies. So heartwarming to see this initiative.💗
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((Special thanks to Trudie, Bomba, Tinkerbelle, and Petunia.🐤🥚))

When the earth is your classroom: Nature made hook

When the earth is your classroom: Nature made hooks. 🌴

Enjoy your explorations this weekend🌿
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In nature we find ourselves.💗 . . . . .

In nature we find ourselves.💗
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Childhood is not simply a time of becoming an adul

Childhood is not simply a time of becoming an adult and preparing for the next phase of life. There needs to be ample time for children to simply be.

If it were a race, they would be racing towards the "rat race" everyone wants to escape. So why do it?

Instead we could:

Let a child unfold at their own pace

Give them time to daydream

Honor the process over the product

Let them be bored

Provide tremendous time for unstructured, child led, imaginative activity.

Holding that space of childhood is the nourishment from which they can then grow and thrive.💗

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Were you recharged today?💗 My Device (Comic by

Were you recharged today?💗

My Device
(Comic by Michael Leunig)
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From Ms Shivani in our Seahorse Nursery: "Welcom

From Ms Shivani in our Seahorse Nursery:

"Welcome to the world, little butterfly 🦋
Two weeks of checking each day on this tiny gift from Mother Nature, watching it evolve from bright green to dark brown with beautiful orange wings glowing through, we were so truly blessed to witness the transformation birthed!

We spent hours of Thursday just sitting, watching this little one emerge from her chrysalis and getting to know her newfound wings. It was a supreme honor of the greatest kind. By the end of the day, she had found her way to the very top of the fence post. We will for sure be watching for her tomorrow."🌺🌿

Taking the time, preserving the wonder...childhood is a precious gift best savored in an unrushed way. Much like our butterfly friend, we trust in divine time.💗🙏
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Balancing our chi under the trees.🌳 Whole bod

Balancing our chi under the trees.🌳

Whole body health care can have a healing effect on the functioning of all the bodily systems.

By supporting the flow of energy throughout the body, provides nourishment all through the body, follow by a deep sense of renewal, calm, and relaxation.

Giving children the opportunity to practice these tools helps care for not only their physical bodies, but their inner lives as well.💗
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💗 Present, mindful, and curious, children explo

💗 Present, mindful, and curious, children explore the world so earnestly and unabashedly.

They are sense experts, paying such keen attention to the endless beauty and depth of the world, and of course questioning it!

Adults could learn a thing or two from them...less preoccupation, more wonder and awe = a more joyous existence.🥰
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From The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How

From The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World

Wohlleben concludes that if we understand plant life's capabilities and learn to recognize trees’ emotional lives and needs, then we will also begin to treat plants differently. No longer thinking of forests solely for their construction capacities, we will understand how forests can serve us in a conpletely different way, for our renewal and revitalization.

First of all, YES! Secondly, all beings, too.💗
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Some of our teens at @embracingourdifferences U

Some of our teens at @embracingourdifferences

Using the power of art and prose to promote diversity, build empathy, and foster inclusivity. 💗
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🌈 Wet on wet water color painting is a rich sen

🌈 Wet on wet water color painting is a rich sensory experience where the children live into and feel color.🌈

❤As the wet paint hits the wet paper, the colors flow, blending into each other in unexpected ways.🧡

💛 As the children develop, the process becomes a combination of experience and form; intentional color separation and pictures begin to take shape, unfolding naturally under their direction 💚

💙 Here our Sandpipers enjoy "painting day", as part of their rhythm each week 💜

🌈(~Pictures and description from Ms Kerry and Ms Amanda, Sandpiper VPK/Pre-K)🌈
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We are thrilled to have been featured in National

We are thrilled to have been featured in National Geographic's recent article on outdoor schooling! (Link in bio!)🙌

We unknowingly (or perhaps intuitively!) Have been gradually adapting our program over several years pre-covid to be increasingly outdoors, while incorporating more naturalist skills into our curriculum, such that this was an easy transition of creating a school of not only our place, embracing the specific wild/elements that live here in Florida, but for our times. 💚🌳💙

Open air is one aspect, but also, creating more opportunities to connect to nature supports our physical, psychological, and emotional health throughout our lifetime.🙌

Our weather challenges are different from other areas, but still provide significant opportunity for resilience and flexibility, even more creative curriculum, along with modeling being prepared and aware of our surroundings for our students. Even on really cold, hot, or rainy days, we adapt...and children embrace this, which is so nourishing to their spirits.

We do not miss indoor time (yes, even the ac 😂) and have found far less typical contagious illness, even last year to this year, when we may have been inside 30% of the time, to now 0%. We have also noted that students who had difficulty attending to lessons indoors had far LESS difficulty outdoors.

The nature education movement is on the rise, for good reason, and we are so grateful and proud to be a part of it.🌳🙏🌴
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All children deserve the opportunity to be in natu

All children deserve the opportunity to be in nature.💚

Having a connection with nature supports one's physical, psychological, and emotional health in countless ways, throughout their lifetime.

In addition, a child who is comfortable in nature becomes the adult who strives to protect it for their time and for future generations.🙌
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Watch for 💚 kids in the wild 💙 Happy Sunda

Watch for 💚 kids in the wild 💙

Happy Sunday!🥰 We hope you get out and explore.🌳🌴
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When we disconnect from nature, we disconnect from

When we disconnect from nature, we disconnect from ourselves. 🌳

In “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, Richard Louv laments the human costs of alienation from nature, as social and technological changes in the past three decades have accelerated the human disconnect from the natural world, coining the phrase, "Nature Deficit Disorder".

Meanwhile, the benefits of connecting to nature are well documented; there is a wealth of research that clearly shows that children’s social, psychological, and physical health are all positively impacted when they have access to nature. 🙌

☀️There are so many benefits, backed by research, such as:

Reduced stress
Improved mood
Increased focus
Decreased anxiety
Increased cognition
Increased academic performance
Increased confidence
Increased ability to self-regulate
Increased problem solving skills

🌻Being outdoors supports our:

Nervous system
Immune system
Social skills
Self-discipline
Sense of responsibility
Sense of wonder
Sense of environmental stewardship
Imagination and creativity

⏳We live in a time when we must defend a childhood that was commonplace just a few decades ago. Time in nature and independent play are increasingly replaced by homework and extra curricular enrichments to "get ahead".

Perhaps we now need to "prescribe" nature to cure what nature could have prevented in the first place. 💚
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Our new shirts are here! 😍 An original design b

Our new shirts are here! 😍 An original design by our art teacher, Ms Shawn, and includes one of our favorite quotes by the great naturalist John Muir, capturing the spirit of our community and commitment to nurturing through nature.🌳

Available in various styles and colors, from little kid to adult. Slide through to see a few examples, and of the wind giving us a good laugh! 😂 All proceeds support the growth and expansion of our 100% outdoor school.

We hope all wearers will be inspired to nurture themselves through nature, too.☀️

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Our 2/3rd grade's recent time measurement spelling

Our 2/3rd grade's recent time measurement spelling words with a twist: what are all the ways you can think of to "write" these words?

In an outdoor classroom? Many! In addition to chalk and clay, they found stones, shells, sand, palm fronds, flowers, and represented letters in so many creative ways.🥰

One way of making a practice more inviting is by adding the element of creativity and student direction. They all found different ways of practicing their words, used natural materials in novel ways, all while sparking creativity in each other. Encouraging alternative ways of thinking now, fosters imaginative and innovative problem solving later. 🙌

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Calm begets calm. 💗 When children are in distr

Calm begets calm. 💗

When children are in distress, they need a calm frequency to match, rather than more overwhelm added to the situation.

There is always time later to discuss and address anything that needs to be rectified. When their nervous system is in crisis, nothing can be retained in those moments...and there is no need to make them feel worse than they already do.

As adults, we crave compassion and understanding when we are upset. Why would children be any different? 🌠

We have the power to teach them this from a very young age, by modeling this for them when they need it the most.
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In our 2/3rd grade students recently created these

In our 2/3rd grade students recently created these really sweet garlands, as each child gave and received notes of kindness to be added to their Valentines heart. 💗

Bringing conscious awareness to what we appreciate about others and taking the time to express it cultivates a class community of respect and admiration of each other's unique qualities and gifts. 💝
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💗 One easy naturalist practice to implement i

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One easy naturalist practice to implement is a sit spot: sitting in nature, still, alone, even just for 5 minutes per day. During this time one gets to know "their spot" really well, at various times of day, in various seasons.

In this place one finds their calm, their curiosity, their wonder and their gratitude for this beautiful land we get to live on and care for. 💚🌏💙
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