Forest Learning Hub
For the Forest Year, September-June, families join the Learning Community and choose from a variety of options when registering for weekly classes designed for homeschooling children, ages 5+, Monday-Friday.
| Monday-Wednesday: Heartwood Core Classes |
| Thursday: Connected ECO Classes |
| Friday: Nature Seekers Classes |
Take Root, as a learning community, uses an ALL-OUTDOOR, PLACE-BASED approach to learning – focusing on exploration, play and discovery. Families join the community to participate in classes that will enrich their homeschooling curriculum. All classes take place outdoors and are implemented using holistic methodologies. The subjects, such as, language arts, cultural studies and history, science and mathematics, place-based ecology and stewardship, are woven into the forest school flow – emphasizing the rhythm of the seasons, sensory awareness and the forest kids’ discoveries in the forest. This model allows for development of the whole child…Head (through transformative experience and reflection), Heart (through relating) & Hands (through engagement).
Take Root’s Forest Learning Hub provides classes based on an emergent, nature and place based curriculum. Classes and instruction may include, but are not limited to: ecology, natural and cultural history, science, math, the arts, outdoor skills, yoga, movement, mindfulness, leadership, entrepreneurship, and stewardship.
Some examples of what may be on offer throughout the forest year, September-June for ages 5 and up (must be 5 in September): Florida Natural History & Ecology, Marine Studies, Pond Life, Botanical Wonders, Biology Basics, Math in Motion, Live Science, Art History through Nature, and more!
The Forest Learning Hub provides weekly classes and instruction in a variety of ways…supporting the needs of young learners (ages 5 and up) and their families. Offerings happen Monday-Friday! Families may choose one or more options. See below…
In the Forest Learning Hub, the kids gather to explore and learn various days of the week during the forest school year.
All instruction takes place outdoors and is facilitated using Take Root’s unique approach which combines the experiential earth-based principles of Forest School, the holistic ideals of Waldorf, the child-based methodologies of Montessori and the flexibility of Agile Learning.
Take Root does not act as a childcare facility or provide child care, only instruction is provided during the session times. Take Root does not provide food, lunch and snacks are up to the family to provide and plan.
The kids and their teacher guides come together to explore, play, discover and learn!
