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3rd annual Wild Roots Community camping trip 🏕💛🌲☀️ Thank you to Fred at Forest View Apple Ranch for being a wonderful host!
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Well, four weeks in now and it looks like our playgroup has birthed a little forest school. 🌲🎉 It wasn’t easy and the work will continue, but I’m just feeling so so grateful today for this community. ❤️ The intentional families I love, our sweet and wild kids that are growing up together, and our brave teacher for taking us all on! 🙏🏼
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Although our program is play and nature based we still have tons of opportunities for Early Literacy from story time, to field guides our students are seeing, learning and writing letters.
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Our Wild Roots Community is committed to being Earth Defenders. Our educators began our 2021-2022 school year with Youth Vs. the Apocalypse Climate Rally.
Our curriculum is built around honoring, loving, respecting and defending our natural world.
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January 2020- Playschool
In January, Teacher Mega made brown playdoh and brought a scat identification sheet and passed it around. The children made different kinds of scat with playdoh and then for the next few days, we studied animal scat with magnifying glasses. We talked about how scientists and trackers use scat to identify the animals that live or roam in a particular place.
Other activities included watching banana slugs (we even found 4 eggs!), making hot chocolate and practicing using a padded bow and arrow.
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October 2019- Playschool
We started out the month celebrating the Persian Festival of Autumn, Mehregan. We made a beautiful alter with rose water, a pumpkin, leaves and Eucalyptus seeds. Later in the month on Indigenous People's Day, we read the book "I am Sausal Creek" that is written in the perspective of a water shed that witnessed the colonization of Ohlone land.
We had a few indoor days due to the smoke. On those dats, we made playdoh, painted wooden figures for imaginary play, did puzzles, designed and carved a pumpkin, and made pumpkin muffins!
Other October activities included writing secret messages on logs with charcoal, painting gourds, a funeral for a ladybug, creating a fort, a Eucalyptus pod stamp painting project, and sawing and drilling "tree cookies" that we'll later turn into bracelets. It was so much wearing Halloween costumes to school too!
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August 2019- Playschool
In August, we were busy playing in the creek, making nature art, constructing fairy houses and taking our homemade swing game to a new level by adding sitting sticks as well as a trapeze!
We were so excited when Teacher Mega returned from her wedding and honeymoon. We made a comic book story of our summer experiences to share with each other.
On the last day of school, we had a graduation ritual that included flower crowns, wrote in each other's journals, and then reenacted seedlings sprouting, spreading roots and blooming. We ran though a curtain hanging between two trees off into the sunlit meadow, representing new journeys and adventures!
Wow, what a wonderful first year we all had together. So thankful for our amazing teacher, dedicated parent teachers, families and kids that made this year so rich and magical.
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July 2019- Playschool
July was filled with lots of art! Local artist Shikha Hutchins visited and led the kids in a life-sized paint blot inner self portrait project! Other art activities included leaf rubbings, tree decorating, and observational drawings of plants, bugs and animals where the kids pretended to be scientists.
Building on Teacher Mega's puppet show on equity and how to end a race in a tie, we decided to act it out ourselves one day. The kids came up with the idea of holding hands to get to the finish line at the same time and had so much fun doing it! They wanted to do it over and over again.
Other activities and projects included observing nature with our hands while blindfolded, spontaneous dance shows, munching on kale and lettuce in the community garden, rope swinging, a field trip to the Presidio, and so much mud cooking! We also saw a coyote and a few hawks in Glen Canyon.
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June 2019- Playschool
This month, besides our regular forest school activities like hiking, creeking, and climbing trees, Teacher Mega introduced some wood working tools which the kids thoroughly enjoyed. One day, she also tied rope between two trees, draped fabric over it, and told the kids it was a magic curtain and they could use it however they wanted. It quickly turned it into a curtain for a play about dragons!
Teacher Mega introduced the concept of equity this month with a puppet show about three animals running a race, all with different abilities/skills. We asked the children how the race could end in a tie and they came up with some creative ideas.
Animals we saw this month included a beautiful owl on a low branch that we were able to watch for a long time and a mama racoon with two baby racoons climbing from tree branch to tree branch!
On the last school day in June, we made some delicious stone soup together and then the children sent Teacher Mega off to her wedding with a gifting ritual that included Mega sitting on a throne in the creek, a nature crown and lots of little gifts from the children and parents.
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June 2019- Playgroup
During the heatwave, we stayed cool in a grove while the kids ran through the sprinklers finding rainbows 🌈 reflecting through the water and sun. ☀️ We also had a family beach day with partners (and found a jelly fish!). And celebrated pride/queer liberation by talking and reading about the holiday and by making our traditional nature rainbow together . 🌈
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May 2019- Playschool
In May, the children's play included making mud soup and mud pudding, turning fabric into capes, playing "family," pretending to be dragons, and turning logs into trains, airplanes and a boat! We took more hikes to the calla lily forest, made picture frames for the mamas on Mother's Day, munched on kale and watched snails in a community garden, studied field guides of local flowers and mushrooms, and learned about Ramadan from Mama Sara. We also took a field trip to the Presidio where we made a rope swing, climbed trees and played in the stick forts!
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April 2019- Playgroup
This spring season, we are changing locations more than we usually do so have been enjoying the varied green spaces of the Botanical Gardens, the AIDS Memorial Grove and Stern Grove. Highlights this month included flower pressing, natural egg dying and egg hunts, a beautiful beach day, plenty of creeking, sand play at the Childrens’ Garden, kick ball, as well as creating natural art installations!
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April 2019- Playschool
With a break from the long winter rains, April really felt like spring, and we were all happy to soak in that sunshine! We spent the month hiking, climbing, creeking, digging, hawk watching, rope tree swinging, sour grass munching, singing songs, creating houses for roly polys, making stick weed crowns, and studying bugs. One day, the kids studied a crane fly by the creek for a very long time, making it a leaf bed and using a fluffy seed as a stuffed animal for it. They were such gentle caretakers. We also continued our bee study-- making nature crowns and pretending to be queen bees, honey tasting, and creating a "save the bees" installation about pesticide use.
Other April highlights included observing owls high up in a tree in Glen Canyon, celebrating International Worker's Day and Beltane, and making nature faces out of clay with mixed paint to match our skin colors. We also hiked to new locations-- floating nature boats in the Lily Pond and exploring the beautiful Calla Lily Forest.
At Playschool, we are intentional about allowing the children ample time for unstructured play which has really allowed for close friendships and deep imaginative play to flourish. On a social-emotional level, the kids have grown so much since the beginning of the year in regards to confidence, regulation, emotional intelligence, awareness of social cues, and mutuality in relationships. And us adults are learning right along with them.
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March 2019- Playgroup
Soaking in the sun after this rainy winter!
We hiked, creeked, ate sour grass, made mud soup, flew paper airplanes, and Mama Crystal organized a beautiful Nowruz altar (above) to celebrate the Persian new year.
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March 2019- Playschool
The beginning of March was spent making nests for birds and brooms from pine needles and sticks. We played in the mud with gardening tools and had plenty of creek play. We made seed balls to help save the bees, visited the dinosaurs at Cal Academy, had kid-lead yoga, played tug-a-rope and went on long hikes in Glen Canyon. We also learned about the teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg and some of us met up at the Youth Climate Strike that same week.
When we wanted a break from the rain, we met at Randall Museum where the kids studied and drew pictures of the animals they observed. At a family home, we played on gym equipment, created an obstacle course and made a bee hive and bees. Later that week the kids played with the bees and hive, delivering pollen and nectar to the hive. It was a full month of learning and play!
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