DOING
Learning is intertwined with adventure, challenge, and exploration
SCIENCE
Investigate, Experiment, Explore, Imagine.
The entire science program will be outdoor education. The curriculum is largely experiment and experience-based.
Broadly, we'll focus on ENERGY, ECOLOGY, and MATERIALS.
Students define their experience:
- Students build the outdoor lab
- Students build the 'home base' - essentially a fort where the class hangs out for snacks, coziness, games, and music.
- They assemble their own First Aid kit, and interested students earn their First Aid certificate to be on the Healer's Team: first responders for all slivers, small burns, mosquito bites, allergies, and small cuts, bumps, and scrapes - of which there will be plenty, if we are doing science right!
NUMBERS
Student will be on a constant journey towards greater numeracy. In class instruction is complimented with real life math challenges.
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Outdoor Engineering Projects: Fort designs, planning and building irrigation for gardens, geographical mapping and orienteering, etc
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Business Projects: Twice annual youth entrepreneurial fairs where students prepare budgets, inventories, and basic accounting
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Physics Projects: Apply math in experiments with steam, pressure, temperature, time and mass
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Astronomy: Using math to measure patterns in the night sky
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The Fun Stuff: Chess, Robotics, Logic puzzles
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The Yummy Stuff: Baking, especially with harvests from the gardens
PHYSICAL WISDOM
INTENSIVE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY DAILY
Brazilian JiuJitsu Intensives
Details:
BJJ Track:
- 2 hours of daily training, 4-5 days a week
- Focus on discipline, mastery, teamwork, self-control, confidence, and endurance
- Strict adherence to martial arts values: kindness, patience, etiquette, perseverance, mutual support, self-reflection
- Option for competition training
THE ARTS
Students are introduced to the artist's way of life: sometimes in motion; at other times steeped in silence and focus.
Studying with practicing artists and musicians, they have opportunities to participate in local events or performances, depending on their level. Students can experiment with new instruments and art styles or choose to commit deeply to only one that calls to them.
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Music:
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Piano
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Violin
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Cello
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Drums
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Vocals
Art:
- Drawing
- Crafts
- Clay Modeling
- Painting
- Textiles