HH Children’s Natural Learning Sanctuary

05/07/2025

10/01/2023

09/02/2023

🙌🏻

06/12/2023

School is canceled until further notice 😞

We hope everyone has a wonderful summer 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼

06/10/2023

How do you teach your little ones how to think?

06/07/2023

While eating lunch they seen a red hawk circling above… so now some of them are drawing it in their nature journals. 🙂

06/07/2023

Find 5 nature items and create a picture…

06/06/2023

Leela was born with Down syndrome and, from birth, had some hearing and vision challenges. She had open-heart surgery when she was two months old to patch congenital defects.

Allyson, Leela’s mother, credits time in nature with many of Leela’s triumphs. At eight years old, Leela has developed physical coordination, a strong heart and improved emotional regulation thanks to time in nature at home and at school.

Allyson also believes that Leela and other children with special needs often feel more at ease in the outdoors than in daily life. “There’s no need to explain yourself. You can just be who you are.”

“Spoken language can sometimes get in the way of Leela expressing herself,” Allyson says. “In nature, so much unspoken communication is happening when you commune with plants and animals.”

Read more at our latest Finding Nature News feature https://bit.ly/45QeXLp

06/06/2023

We finished planting the garden yesterday… corn, spinach, broccoli, acorn squash, rutabaga, carrots, chard, cilantro & marigolds. Plus the pole beans have popped up and the strawberry bed we planted last year is producing nicely!

06/04/2023

https://www.facebook.com/100002558871011/posts/6277141322381101/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

05/30/2023

Today is Mick and Gabe’s first day with us! 🙂