We are excited to announce Wilderness Wednesdays in partnership with Camp Sonshine - Shiloh, where our learners spend the day exploring and immersing themselves in nature. We spend half the day in free play, simply learning to 'be in nature' and half the day completing challenges, hiking, and developing outdoor & survival skills. They will also have the opportunity to work together, build shelters, and become connected to our natural world and each other. 

Give your Child the opportunity to:

  • Connect with Nature
  • Develop a Love for our natural world
  • Improve all aspects of child development-physical-cognitive-social-emotional
  • Grow resilience, creativity, self-confidence, and initiative.
Our Guides use observation and documentation to plan outdoor programs that encourage active exploration, inquiry, independence, kindness & character building, choice, critical thinking & problem solving, wonder, and discovery. Our days are loosely structured to allow space for the learners' curiosity and interest to lead.

In our outdoor program your child will explore as a group as well as have room to independently interact with our wonderful natural environment, alongside Guides who have a love for the outdoors that is highlighted by conservation and stewardship minded practices.

Learning in Nature

Learn to Do

Hands-on, self-guided challenges & skills lay a foundation of confidence and a love for our natural world.

Learn to Learn

We explore the natural world around us, as well as conservation and stewardship practices.

Learn to Be

From screens to busy schedules, children need the ability to unplug and learn to simply 'be' in nature.
Our Spark Studio will spend every Wednesday all-day at Camp Shiloh, while our elementary studios (Discovery & Odyssey Studios) will venture out every other week!
OUR OUTDOOR CAMPUS

Camp Sonshine - Shiloh features over 100 acres of tall grass, timber, creeks and willow bottoms. 
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WHY Wilderness Wednesdays?

In an outdoor setting, nature becomes a classroom with no walls, where children learn through self-directed play by using their whole bodies and all of their senses, in an environment that nurtures their curiosity and strengthens their self-esteem.
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-Linda McGurk, There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather
Nobody wants to be in the last generation that remembers when it was considered normal and expected for children to go outside and play. Nobody.

​-Richard Louv