Session 6: Year 5, Week 25 In Review — The Forest School

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The method of education we offer is based on self-directed activity, hands-on learning, and collaborative play.

In the studio, learners make creative choices in their learning, while the highly trained guides offer age-appropriate activities to guide the process. Learners work in groups and individually to discover and explore the knowledge of the world and to develop their maximum potential. Some activities, such as Quest work, are written yet can change at any given moment to accommodate the needs of the learners.

The studio is a beautifully curated environment designed to ensure just that … we meet the needs of learners in a specific age range to meet them exactly where they are at in their learning. This all plays into the outcome of building a strong community. We have become like family. Through this creative process, we are all learning the four pillars our school is built upon, and we are uniting. Think about how we may apply these pillars to home life; they tie in quite nicely.

We are experiencing the richness on our journey through The Land of the Parts of Speech. Take math word problems, for instance. Do you see the connection between math and parts of speech? We practiced our first-word problem in groups of 3. The challenge was to find the answers to the questions and meet back as a group to discover how each group came to their end result. Several different methods were used to accomplish the goal.

We cannot wait to share the details during this session’s exhibition. We hope to captivate your attention to the details and intricacies of our everyday building blocks.

Chick update: We are on the countdown…10 days to go! Two upper elementary heroes joined us for a launch to share their knowledge of the life cycle of a chicken. We even got to take a peek at the eggs through the light on top of the incubator,  candling, they call it. 🙂  We saw veins and movement, and according to the learners, it made them feel weird, happy, cool, and curious.

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