Typical Day
Mulberry Forest School morning nature-based lessons session runs from 8:30 am - 12pm.
Our full day session runs 8:30-3pm.
8:30 a.m.
Arrival
Montessori Work Period Begins
8:30-11:45 am
Mindfulness activity, Morning Meeting
12-12:30 p.m.
Morning Student Departure
Lunch for Full Day Students
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Art Period: Music, Theatre, or Visual Arts
1:30-2:45 p.m.
Land Stewardship-Focused Emergent Work Period in Forest
Integrated Science and Social Sciences with emphasis on project-based and collaborative learning.
2:45 p.m.
Afternoon Meeting
3:00 p.m. Dismissal
Our day begins with a Montessori work period, which allows students to come in and engage directly and deeply with their work. Children enter the yurt to retrieve stored learning materials and follow their individualized work plans to complete works in math and English Language Arts (ELA). Children may take materials outside and go about their learning tasks, individually or in small groups. The guides circulate among the children, offering direct lessons in a “three phase instruction” structure (see below).
The guides observe and document student progress to better support their learning. True to Montessori principles, children will still retain flexibility to move among different learning activities and subjects, changing their learning materials for others during the morning independent work period.
This work period is followed by morning meeting, where children gather with educators (known as guides) to check in, ground themselves, and reflect on their work. Morning and afternoon meetings allow children time to learn and practice important socioemotional skills, build community, communication skills, listening, and interacting in ways that are respectful and challenging.
After the morning meeting, primary students depart, and elementary students eat lunch together outdoors or under the pavilion when it rains.
The afternoon period consists of arts instruction: music, dance, and visual arts, followed by a period of Montessori and emergent learning in the Forest, integrating science, health, environmental education, and social studies. These projects will be built around seasonal themes and facilitated by our skilled Lead Guides with an eye to drawing our specific learning outcomes around ecology, local history, contemporary governance, conservation, biology and physics. These afternoon periods offer children ample opportunity to put into practice Math and ELA skills in a practical context in a way that encourages meaning and understanding of application, relevance and real world circumstances. Children will also practice various forms of critical reading and writing, encountering literature, poetry, scientific and historical texts, in relation to the learning experience.
The afternoon work periods also give the children the opportunity to practice collaboration and compromise, regulation and decision-making, among other important socioemotional learning skills.
Children will return to the base camp for afternoon meeting where they will reflect on what was accomplished that day and begin setting goals for the following day.
Children and instructors will say goodbye to the forest for the day, to be picked up in the parking lot at 3:00 pm.
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Our full day session runs 8:30-3pm.
Schedule
8:30 a.m.
Arrival
Montessori Work Period Begins
8:30-11:45 am
Mindfulness activity, Morning Meeting
12-12:30 p.m.
Morning Student Departure
Lunch for Full Day Students
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Art Period: Music, Theatre, or Visual Arts
1:30-2:45 p.m.
Land Stewardship-Focused Emergent Work Period in Forest
Integrated Science and Social Sciences with emphasis on project-based and collaborative learning.
2:45 p.m.
Afternoon Meeting
3:00 p.m. Dismissal
A Day In Our Shoes-
Our day begins with a Montessori work period, which allows students to come in and engage directly and deeply with their work. Children enter the yurt to retrieve stored learning materials and follow their individualized work plans to complete works in math and English Language Arts (ELA). Children may take materials outside and go about their learning tasks, individually or in small groups. The guides circulate among the children, offering direct lessons in a “three phase instruction” structure (see below).
The guides observe and document student progress to better support their learning. True to Montessori principles, children will still retain flexibility to move among different learning activities and subjects, changing their learning materials for others during the morning independent work period.
This work period is followed by morning meeting, where children gather with educators (known as guides) to check in, ground themselves, and reflect on their work. Morning and afternoon meetings allow children time to learn and practice important socioemotional skills, build community, communication skills, listening, and interacting in ways that are respectful and challenging.
After the morning meeting, primary students depart, and elementary students eat lunch together outdoors or under the pavilion when it rains.
The afternoon period consists of arts instruction: music, dance, and visual arts, followed by a period of Montessori and emergent learning in the Forest, integrating science, health, environmental education, and social studies. These projects will be built around seasonal themes and facilitated by our skilled Lead Guides with an eye to drawing our specific learning outcomes around ecology, local history, contemporary governance, conservation, biology and physics. These afternoon periods offer children ample opportunity to put into practice Math and ELA skills in a practical context in a way that encourages meaning and understanding of application, relevance and real world circumstances. Children will also practice various forms of critical reading and writing, encountering literature, poetry, scientific and historical texts, in relation to the learning experience.
The afternoon work periods also give the children the opportunity to practice collaboration and compromise, regulation and decision-making, among other important socioemotional learning skills.
Children will return to the base camp for afternoon meeting where they will reflect on what was accomplished that day and begin setting goals for the following day.
Children and instructors will say goodbye to the forest for the day, to be picked up in the parking lot at 3:00 pm.
NEXT ︎︎︎ Enroll