Spring Creek Farm in Palmer, Alaska

The Outdoor Adventures Club program Last Event is as follows:

Thanks to all who participated--Check this site for future events.

Special Thanks to the Mat-Su

Health Foundation for funding

these events .

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Consider Louise's Farm School for your

Home Schooled Child.

Fall Session starts September 8 ,2010

        Fall Program:   September 8 through November 24, 2010   Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:30am-12:30pm   12 weeks  Only $660.00 !!!

  *We are considered a vendor of the local home-school support programs: Twindly Bridge, IDEA or Correspondence Study School.
Participants may apply allotment money to cover the costs of our program or they may pay direct.

Louise's Farm School (LFS) is an interdisciplinary environmental and outdoor education program for home schooled children located at APU's Spring Creek Educational Farm in Palmer.   

The mission of Louise’s Farm School is to encourage each child’s discovery of the joy of learning through hands-on activities in nearby nature, in their home community and to nourish healthy lifestyles with local nutritious foods and outdoor physical activity.

Our major curricular themes include (1) Farming and Food, (2) Physical Health and Well-being, (3) Nature Studies and (4) Our Shared Alaska Culture.  Instructors are graduate students in the APU MS Outdoor Environmental Education program and AmeriCorps Education members. 

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Louise's Farm School

NEW FOR FALL AT LOUISE'S FARM SCHOOL:

Louise's Farm School options for fall 2010 (begins Sept 8)

 
Option 1) Mondays/Wednesdays/Fridays 9:30-12:30 Chickadees and Magpies the same as last year.

Chickadees: Levels K & 1 Hands-on, thematic  environmental education

Chickadees discover sensory awareness and ecological principles through the investigation of our local natural and built environments. With an emphasis on seasonal change, students build interdisciplinary concepts and skills based on what they do, see and hear and taste.

Magpies: Levels 1, 2, 3   Project-based environmental education

Magpies work collaboratively to produce and present projects, emphasizing relevant, local investigations. This approach involves the student in the decision-making and problem-solving process and encourages individual strengths.  Community ties are often strengthened with field trips and guest speakers. One project may last the entire session. 

 
Option 2) Tuesdays 9:30-2:30 "Nature's Numbers and Nouns" Open to grade levels 2-3. Math and Lang Arts skills through nature based projects. Cost 25.00 per day, for a full session.

In fall 2010, Louise’s Farm School is offering a new program called Nature’s Numbers and Nouns. This program will meet on Tuesdays from 9:30 – 2:30.  Each week students will take on a project that requires the use of writing, reading and math skills.  Emphasis will be on learning the fundamentals in each of these three disciplines.  Group size will be small allowing for individual attention to each child’s proficiency level in both math and language arts.  As always at LFS, completion of the projects will require students to move around outside on the farm traveling on foot, skis or snowshoes from fields to forest to wetlands. Projects will have a real-world context some examples of which include, conducting tree surveys, calculating animal feed portions, mapping, and play structure design for the children’s garden. Program participants will be writing and calculating math problems in a Science Notebook which will go home with them each week for additional work should the parent choose to use it with their child.

 
Option 3) Thursdays 9:30-2:30 One-day only program for Grade 2-3 level and older 1st graders. This is a condensed normal Farm School program. Cost 25.00 per day, for a full session.

Children work collaboratively to produce and present projects, emphasizing relevant, local investigations. This approach involves the student in the decision-making and problem-solving process and encourages individual strengths.  Community ties are often strengthened with field trips and guest speakers. One project may last the entire session. Cost is 25.00 dollars per day, for a full session.

 Kids may be signed up for anyone option or any combination of the two or all three

Email us at

fieldschool@alaskapacific.edu  for more information or to register.