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Free Kids Academy We're not just teaching subjects. We're cultivating conscious, divine beings! Your tribe is waiting! Augustine, Florida.

Free Kids Academy is a holistic, hybrid PreK-8 school in Hastings, built on a simple but powerful belief: education should nurture the whole child — mind, body, and spirit. At Free Kids Academy we honor our children as divine human beings with unlimited curiosity and creativity, by empowering them with a holistic education to be happy, healthy lifelong learners that will make a difference in the world. Free Kids Academy is a private, hybrid k-8 school nestled on 26 acres in historic St. Majestic live oaks, with a story to tell, greet you as you enter the campus. Blooms of pink azaleas envelope our village and fill the air with magical wonder; the perfect landscape for your children to develop a love of nature, exploration, and discovery.

10/02/2026

Some show & tells are extra special. 🥹❤️

Recently, one of our students brought her big brother to school just hours before he left to begin his journey with the Army.

One proud little sister. One very big goodbye. 🇺🇸❤️

Wishing him strength, protection, and safe travels until she gets to hug her big brother again.

 

09/30/2026

Be intentional with the words you choose because words have frequency and affect the way you feel and think. When we decorated FKA we wrote blessings on walls and wood before painting. Then we decorated our spaces with affirmations and other positive sayings. Many were found on Etsy and Amazon.

Behavior is easy to notice. The need underneath it can be harder to see. 🌱When a child is struggling, it can be tempting...
09/29/2026

Behavior is easy to notice. The need underneath it can be harder to see. 🌱

When a child is struggling, it can be tempting to focus first on stopping the behavior. But behavior can also give us information. A child may be communicating a need for movement, connection, rest, autonomy, challenge, sensory support, or simply help putting a feeling into words.

That doesn’t mean boundaries disappear. Connection and accountability can exist together. We can hold a boundary while still getting curious about what’s happening beneath the surface.

At FKA, we want children to develop more than the ability to behave. We want them to gradually learn to recognize what’s happening within themselves, communicate their needs, regulate their emotions, make conscious choices, and take responsibility for their actions.

Because the long-term goal isn’t simply a child who listens to adults.
It’s a child who learns to listen to themselves. 💛

Next time a behavior catches your attention, try replacing “How do I stop this?” with:
“What might this behavior be trying to tell me?”

🌿 Save this for the next hard moment, or share it with a parent or educator who might need this reminder.

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Come see what all the joy is about! 🌿☀️💛Our doors are OPEN, and everyone is welcome to come experience Free Kids Academy...
09/24/2026

Come see what all the joy is about! 🌿☀️💛

Our doors are OPEN, and everyone is welcome to come experience Free Kids Academy! ✨

Wander through our classrooms, explore our playgarden and learning spaces, meet the incredible humans who make FKA feel like home, and connect with families who are reimagining what education can look and feel like.

Come with questions. Come with curiosity. Come meet us, explore, play, connect, and soak up a little FKA magic. 🌱🧡

We would absolutely LOVE to welcome you in.

📅 Friday, September 25
⏰ 2:00–3:00 PM
📍 Free Kids Academy | Hastings, FL

Bring the kids. Bring a friend. Bring your curiosity. Come as you are. 🌎✨

09/23/2026

As our students watched this little life make its way into the world, they practiced something we talk about often at FKA: being intentional about the energy and words we bring into a space.

So while our chick did the important work of hatching, our students surrounded it with compassion, joy and words of love and well-being:

“Every little cell in my body is happy. Every little cell in my body is well.” Words of affirmation and health, projected onto the little chick as it emerged from its shell. 💛 

It became yet another beautiful example of how our words can shape the outcome of our experiences and have a positive effect on the people and living things around us. What kind of energy do we bring into a room? What happens when we choose words of encouragement, love, and care?

As magical as the hatching process is, caring for these little lives comes with a lot of responsibility. We carefully maintain the proper temperature and humidity, turn the eggs appropriately throughout incubation, and once a chick begins pipping, we let nature take the lead rather than helping it out of its shell, as unnecessary intervention can be harmful. Once a chick is hatched, it’s left undisturbed to dry, rest and recover on its own. We’re also diligent about handwashing before anyone handles an egg or chick to help minimize the risk of introducing harmful bacteria and potential infection. 🐥

One tiny chick… a big lesson in life, energy, intention, and the power of the words we choose. ✨

What if some of the richest academic learning doesn’t look academic at all? 🌱A recipe becomes math and sequencing.A gard...
09/22/2026

What if some of the richest academic learning doesn’t look academic at all? 🌱

A recipe becomes math and sequencing.
A garden becomes biology and responsibility.
A board game becomes strategy and executive function.
A pile of building pieces becomes engineering and problem-solving.
A conversation becomes communication and perspective-taking.

When children are actively doing, they aren’t taking a break from learning.

They’re applying it.

They’re making decisions, testing ideas, noticing patterns, solving problems, communicating, adapting, and discovering what happens when knowledge meets the real world.

Sometimes we’ve been taught to recognize learning by what it looks like: a worksheet, a textbook, a desk, a completed assignment.

But learning is bigger than its packaging.

Academic doesn’t have to mean sitting at a desk.

Sometimes it looks like dirt under their fingernails, ingredients scattered across a table, a chessboard between two friends, or a creation taking shape on the floor.

Because the real world isn’t separate from the classroom.

It might just be one of our greatest classrooms. 🌎✨

09/21/2026

AI can generate an answer in SECONDS.

But childhood is where we learn to ask the question.

To wrestle with an idea.
To sit with frustration.
To try something that doesn’t work.
To imagine another way.
To create with our hands.
To learn from one another.
To decide what we think.

Technology will undoubtedly be part of their future. But before we give children tools that can think with them, we want to give them plenty of opportunities to think for themselves.

Because in a world where answers are becoming easier to find, curiosity, creativity, discernment, and independent thought may matter more than ever.

So instead of simply asking:
“Could AI help with this?”

Maybe we also ask:
“What would my child practice by doing this without AI first?”

Would they practice persistence?
Original thought?
Problem-solving?
Writing?
Imagination?
Discernment?
Communication?

If so, maybe that struggle is worth protecting.

This doesn’t have to be a choice between embracing technology and rejecting it.

It can be about sequence.

Let them wonder before they prompt.

Attempt before they automate.
Create before they generate.
Think before they outsource the thinking.

There will be plenty of time for children to learn how to use intelligent tools.

First, let’s give them time to discover the intelligence that’s already theirs.

That might be one of the most important ways we prepare them for an AI-powered world. 🌎✨

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101 E Ashland Avenue
Hastings, FL
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