Berkeley Forest School

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🔨 The children made a volcano today, after reading a story about one. It involved a lot of hammering the ground. 🌋

Little October moments.

1. Pre-K made paper with hibiscus pulp and Black Pincushion flower petals 🌺
2. Hanging with Squirrely, our best puppet friend 🐿️
3. Squirrely climbs with us, too! 🌰
4. Sharpening a brand new pencil ✏️
5. Sharing a sunny bay morning with the harbor seals 🌞

Monday afternoon free painting. 🎨 🍂

🔔 Today is the LAST DAY for $25 off Fall Camps tuition! Sign up before the end of October 1st to be the early bird for Fall forest fun.

Forest preschool has been focused on maps, with some students volunteering to be Navigators for our morning nature walks. Navigators learn about responsible leadership, make important choices about the direction of adventures, and problem solve when they come across obstacles in the path.

Introducing ten frames to interested students, in the form of a Treasure Frame Challenge! Deciding how many of which treasures to gather and place on the board involves visually breaking down ten total spaces into ones, twos, and fives for TKers, while toddlers practice their sorting and categorization. Today the children looked out for smooth rocks, acorns, and dried wild radish seed pods, and won all the challenges they set for themselves.

Building hand-eye coordination with Teacher Liana, by making pine needle baskets or frames! Children decorated their own basket bases, gathered and counted enough pine needle bunches to make the thickness consistent, and practiced with large blunted needles and string to loop tightly around the pine needles until secured.

Enjoying every last “naked feets!” day of 2024 to the fullest. 💜

Returning to the same activity again and again as it is requested by the children, gives them more or less unlimited time and space to complete a project, consider the results, approach it again with fresh perspectives and methods. E’s latest perspective on pine needle brooms: “WHAT IF GIANT?” We learned a lot.

Autumn afternoon arts and crafts. 🍂 ⛅️

It’s secret blackberry bush season again. 👀 😋