Welcome to our Earthwise Forest School blog! For those of you who may be new to the blog, each post highlights a few of our favorite...

Animal tracking is a core nature awareness routine that we practice regularly. This dried up pond mud is the perfect substrate to see...

Happy equinox to all! We celebrated the autumn equinox with fall flower crafting, pears, autumn songs, and frog exploration. Pacifica's...

Greetings everyone! We just finished up a wonderful first week of forest school at our new location! Pacifica is a 400+ acre nonprofit...

Basic orientation is such fundamental knowledge. It informs our entire sense of being. This week we focused on understanding the...

On our morning hike we found our first egg of the season! A beautiful lone goose egg in a nest near the pond. Let's leave it alone and...

So many trees to climb, and so little time! Felted wool eggs for our bird nests, dyed blue with Earth Paint! Studying animal tracks with...

Nature paintbrushes and earth pigments! Morning bird observation at the edge of our pond. Our students carefully watch a tree frog...

We have been growing our relationship with fire over these past few weeks, appreciating our fire's warmth in the tipi and enjoying...

We explore the streams in the meadow, gathering under a ponderosa pine that shelters us from the raindrops, a perfect spot for morning...

After a two month break for the holidays and winter weather, we started our spring semester last week. We have a full class this term...

As we gather together on a misty morning, we pause to hear the calls of geese. Are they taking off or landing on the pond? Because of...

During these late autumn days our morning adventures have been filled with mushroom exploration. Through the wet leaves and sticks on...

This morning Cascade Mountain Ranch sparkles in a fresh sheen of recent rain. But for now the skies are clear and we strike off to see...

This post is for the week of November 9th- apologies for posting late! The cold, rainy weather finally arrived, and we welcomed the...

“Over in the meadow where the grasshoppers hop, and the katydids fiddle and the flutter mops flop, down in the meadow where the grass...

Brr! We gather together for a brisk hike on one of the first frosty mornings of the season. Our class sets off with enthusiasm, finding...

Another beautiful week at forest school! The golden autumn sun continues to shine down on us and the frosty mornings made us want to...

It’s Tuesday morning! We wander off finding deer trails that lead to an open meadow.  Here the sun is shining all over everything and...

We put up our 18 foot tipi last weekend and introduced the children to our new space. Tipis are a beautiful and solid structure that we...