We began our Fall 2024 term the week of the Autumn Equinox, surrounded by wild grapes, Manzanita berries, ripening acorns, and the sweet...

The autumn season got so busy, gathering so many acorns and making so much pumpkin pie that we got behind posting new pictures here on...

Week 1: We got started by exploring our landscape, and gathering flowers, plants and grasses that we encountered on our journey to weave...

Willow is a plant we love and appreciate so much at Earthwise! The children love to climb in the beautiful Willows around our tipi, and...

Our Sprouts class has been hard at work on creating a miniature "fairy village" of many small house structures made of bark, grass,...

The Sprouts and Saplings classes came together this week to prepare and bake orange muffins on our tipi fire. Yum! Orange muffins are a...

The first signs of spring are everywhere- in the warm wet breeze, in the little seedlings poking their heads up out of the warming soil,...

We were so grateful for a visit from a beautiful young Cooper's hawk on Tuesday. They were on the ground eating a ground squirrel when we...

As we move into these darkest days of the year before Winter Solstice, it is traditional to make lanterns and take a walk under the...

P is for Pumpkin Pancakes! We welcomed Fire into our tipi classroom for the first time this week, and what better way to celebrate our...

Stars around us everywhere! We discovered the magic of slicing an apple to find the stars inside, and made apple star stamps with our...

The last week of sunny warm Autumn weather! We enjoyed the sunshine, adventuring around the land and exploring new trees, finding the...

Our favorite autumn activity at Earthwise is acorn processing. Acorn is an ancient staple food source wherever oak trees grow...

It's early October and the heat hasn't subsided yet! So we are spending our days finding shade and water, where the frogs and cattails...

We got crafty this week with the last of the season's blackberries. We gathered the juiciest berries still clinging to their vines, and...

We are so happy to be sinking back into the autumn season with a new class! Our two classes, the Sprouts and the Saplings, worked...

Working with clay is by far one of our favorite autumn activities and our imaginations light up with the endless possibilities as we...

In celebration of pumpkins, Halloween, and the elemental magic present with us at this time of year, we had a festive week at school...

Mushrooms, Madrone berries, and autumn leaves, oh my! We have all been enjoying the full glory of autumn colors and the changing season. ...

It was our first rainy and chilly week at forest school so it was the perfect time to learn about fire. We learn about how to call Fire...