About our program

Our vision is for this time to be filled with collaborative play, teamwork, learning about and connecting to our space, and opportunity for the children to self-direct and take risks socially, emotionally, and physically. Building relationships with our students is of utmost importance and helping them build respectful relationships with each other and nature is our highest ideal.

During our summer program, we are committed to the principles of a Reggio-Inspired, Forest School philosophy done in a nurturing, collaborative, supportive environment. Our emphasis remains on outdoor learning, environmental stewardship, and holistic development with opportunities to take supported risks. We celebrate children's inherent competencies and curiosities, building a foundation that creates a life-long love of learning and the outdoors.  We encourage artistic exploration utilizing mixed mediums and natural materials. The children will also spend time working in our gardens and taking hikes on the nearby trails. We offer a 1:6 teacher to child ratio.

Weekly Sessions 

(Monday - Wednesday El Granada Site/Thursday - Friday Tunitas Creek Rd. Site)

Session 1 (June 23rd – June 27th ) 

Closed June 30th – July 4th (4th of July week)

Session 2 (July 7th – July 11th) 

Session 3 (July 14th – July 18th) 

Session 4 (July 21st – 25th) 

Session 5 (July 28th – August 1st) 

Session 6 (August 4th - August 8th) 

Session 7 (August 11th– August 15th) 

Through art and science, children will be empowered to create things from natural objects they gather themselves as well as provocations introduced by the teachers. We will engage the children’s interest utilizing natural materials and stories of the forest and the oceans and the creatures who inhabit them. Utilizing paper, bark and canvases, the children will make their own creations using markers, different types of paints and paint brushes, clay and collage techniques. Each day will include time for exploring the forest and classroom in between creations.