Tinkerers
Ages 5 - 10
Spend Friday Afternoons in the Forest!
Your child(ren) will spend 3.5 hours every Friday afternoon at the Wonder & Awe forest learning what it means to be a “Tinkerer”. With an intentional focus on trial & error, developing executive functional skills, sketching designs & concepts, working independently and in small groups to complete projects, communicating their ideas, using tools, & understanding how simple machines work.
Join Angela & Zoe, your child’s hosts and guides, as they work with them to discover, appreciate, and steward a meaningful curriculum that excites and motivates. Tinkerers is offered from 1:30pm to 5pm in an unhurried rhythm that will awaken your child’s sense of wonder. Children will spend their time outside having fun together while strengthening their bonds to each other and to nature.
Tinkerers is being offered for the Spring Session on a trial basis.
Spring - HOMESTEADERS - (April 17th through June 19th) - 10 weeks
Children will have the opportunity to experience the 6 elements of risky play!
Play with Great Heights
Play with Rapid Speeds
Play with Dangerous Tools
Play near Dangerous Elements
Rough and Tumble Play
“Disappearing or Getting Lost” Play
Children will learn how to assess their “risky play” by completing a self-awareness and self-confidence checklist prior to participating. This will involve asking themselves questions like “do I feel safe?”, “have I practiced enough in other areas so that I am ready for this challenge?” Children will work with Angela to build the necessary skills needed in order to tackle their “risky play” in responsible and safe ways. Angela will be with the children to monitor and “spot” each child as they play!
Your child will build meaningful relationships with their classmates , Zoe & Angela.
Discover
Children will discover their abilities while tinkering. Extended periods of time to take items apart and put them back together again, exposure to real tools allows the children to learn how to use them in a safe way and with purpose. We will discover through weekly challenges, through story and each other, skills that will go with them. Discovery through experience of trial and error, practice, and persistence.
Appreciate
Children will develop a deep appreciation for the inventions that have formed all of the “stuff” we often take for granted now. Appreciation of the ideas and concepts of early inventors begins with an understanding that we are benefitting from their creativity, determination, and focus to make something new or to solve a problem. Learning to use tools effectively, becoming aware of the impact we have on limiting waste, and valuing the skills and effort of inventors, tinkerers, carpenters from the generations before us. Appreciating ingenuity, perserverance, and problem-solving.
Steward
Children will learn that we are caretakers of the Land. It is up to us as community citizens to know how our impact on the Land will affect our generation and generations that come after us. Children will learn about the impact that throwing out unused or broken items has on our environment. They will learn that repairing & repurposing items is a necessary way for us to limit our negative impact on the abundance of trash waste that is produced. Children will learn that their purchasing power can in fact make a difference in protecting our Land and its inhabitants.
Investment
Tinkerers
Spring Session - $500/child