Blooming Scholar

Blooming Scholar Nature-based learning program that supports home education through direct instruction.

We kicked off Healthy Habits Week with a fun and busy day of learningWe started the morning with a gallery walk where st...
09/21/2026

We kicked off Healthy Habits Week with a fun and busy day of learning

We started the morning with a gallery walk where students wrote or drew their favorite fruits and vegetables. During reading, students practiced writing sentences about healthy habits and added pictures to show their ideas.

Recess was extra exciting today because students got to spend some time with our newborn baby chicks and ducks!

During math, students took a class survey to decide which healthy habit they thought was most important. They tallied the results, turned their data into a bar graph, and answered comprehension questions about healthy choices.

We ended the day by reading about the different benefits of fruits and vegetables and learning how they help our bodies grow, stay strong, and feel our best!

🍎🥕🍓🥦🐥🦆

Zen ducks
09/21/2026

Zen ducks

Today was a fun day of hands-on learning and creativity! In Collaborative, students designed our future butterfly garden...
09/16/2026

Today was a fun day of hands-on learning and creativity! In Collaborative, students designed our future butterfly garden and finished painting their garden mushrooms. In Think Outside the Box, teams worked together to protect Ninja Turtle “townspeople” from extreme weather by designing structures with limited materials. In STEM, students experimented with creating foaming rainbows and rainbow-colored bubbles. In Music, students practiced rhythms, vocal warm-ups, and singing in rounds. In Farm Chores, students planted sunflowers, collected eggs, tidied the market, and cared for the animals. Students also explored Picasso-inspired art, created kindness notebooks and kindness chains, designed personalized resin bookmarks, built spaghetti and marshmallow towers, practiced active listening while creating seashell wind chimes, and worked on body resistance, running form, and obstacle courses in Strength & Conditioning.

Weather week!What a fun day!Students began by painting their volcanoes from yesterday in preparation for some awesome af...
09/16/2026

Weather week!

What a fun day!
Students began by painting their volcanoes from yesterday in preparation for some awesome afternoon eruptions! After painting, they watched The Magic School Bus Episode "Blow It's Top" to learn how volcanoes form and what they look like beneath the ocean. This tied into the students' Language Arts lesson by answering comprehension questions, and drawing their own conclusions. We read a beautiful storybook together titled "Hurricanes," where students learned how animals perceive storms and where they take shelter with their families. Next came the erupting volcanoes which was a huge hit! Students poured white vinegar into their volcanoes and watched as red lava shot out and spread all over their creations! Math continued our weather theme this week by using a pie chart to compare Fort Myers' rainy days vs. sunny days. Students played a weather prediction dice game which examined a week of weather, graphed their results, and rolled to see what weather was coming next. We ended the day with some gymnastics, a few jumps in the mud, and lots of laughs.

Today our secondary group continued our Fairy Tale week by customizing our castles with paint and decor. This led to an ...
09/11/2026

Today our secondary group continued our Fairy Tale week by customizing our castles with paint and decor. This led to an engaging math lesson where students took what they learned from castle-building and created blueprints for a property. This allowed students to sketch, total their perimeter, and find the area. Language Arts was an additional lesson on text features where students viewed an advertisement for a castle and created their own. We ended the day with fairy houses and troll dens by using natural resources from around the farm!

Enrichment Day!! What a full day of learning, creating, growing, and having fun! Today our learners explored STEM, made ...
09/09/2026

Enrichment Day!! What a full day of learning, creating, growing, and having fun! Today our learners explored STEM, made fall decorations for a senior home, created cement mushrooms, finished designing their resin sun catchers, practiced growth mindset skills, and made mindful jars and Zentangles. In music class, they created rain sticks while learning about rhythm and sound. Our gardeners also planted the sunflower seeds they started germinating last week, giving them the opportunity to experience the full process from seed to sprout to plant. We also worked on robot performance construction, challenged our brains with board games, and practiced greetings and more during Spanish class. Every day at Southern Fresh Academy brings new opportunities to learn through hands-on experiences, creativity, collaboration, movement, and curiosity, and today was no exception!

As we wrapped up bee week, middle school students turned their plot elements into a whole bee story, including illustrat...
09/04/2026

As we wrapped up bee week, middle school students turned their plot elements into a whole bee story, including illustrations! They competed in bee lego challenges, and made 'farm' q-tip painting. They played bee trivia and created beautiful pasta honeycombs during art class. Students identified the different roles of bees while watching some scenes from the bee movie and read library books comparing different species such as hornets, carpenter bees, and wasps. This afternoon, students embraced some rain, ran around the playground, completed farm chores, and learned more about egg incubation. Miss Jen read the book "Chicks and Chickens" to students to learn the entire process of egg incubation. Students wrote their initials on their own egg, set the right temperature, and said goodbye to the eggs for the next 21 days. Overall, it was a great week on the farm and a well deserved long weekend for our busy-bee students.

What an exciting day here at the farm for Enrichment Wednesday! About 50 students joined today for exciting, hourly rota...
09/02/2026

What an exciting day here at the farm for Enrichment Wednesday! About 50 students joined today for exciting, hourly rotations. Farm chores, STEM, Spanish, Resin, Art and more!
Students began their day with a visit from a local beekeeper who prepared a live demonstration with his hive. They even got to see bees get born! Students observed a colony of 30,000 worker bees in the midst of protecting their queen and filling their hive!
From there, students took part in Community Service Projects and Collaborative Group work. We stayed cool after the playground with ice pops and a shady lunch. Students ended the day happily, saying goodbye to new friends and eager to continue more activities next week!

Bee gems
09/01/2026

Bee gems

When what we discuss all day, sticks. BEE WEEK! These are golden. We had a 3rd grader go home and write this to sum up t...
09/01/2026

When what we discuss all day, sticks. BEE WEEK! These are golden. We had a 3rd grader go home and write this to sum up their day and shared it with us in the morning 🫶🏼

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