Blossom School House

Who wants to join us for summer fun for the upcoming week of June 22nd through 26th? I have one spot left!

Picture of our guinea pigs, Millie and Lucy, enjoying their birthday “cake” this morning!

Dioramas in progress! The foil-covered spots are where we will add in the water features. Everyone is so creative, and it’s been fun seeing their visions come to life! We will be finishing these up next week and then moving on to our big project for July: making movies! Each student will write a script, make costume and prop choices, and background music choices! They will get the opportunity to act in each other’s movies too. 😁🌸

My summer camp spots for the rest of June are full! I still have 2-3 spots available most days for the following weeks. Generous “pay-what-you-can” sliding scale and sibling discount available if needed.

•June 29th - July 3rd
•July 6th - 10th
•July 13th - 17th
•July 20th - 24th
•July 27th - 31st

Our daily routine is a good balance of outdoor play, creative projects, art, and fun daily clubs. Full-time, part-time, or casual drop-in available. Our club schedule:

M - Comic & Creative Writing Club
T - Tabletop RPG Adventure Club
W - Book Club
Th - Mystery Club
F - Baking & Board Games

Kids who are kind, artistic, and who like smaller groups tend to really enjoy it here! I have mainly 8-11 year old girls enrolled for the summer. Please message me for more info and to set up an introductory meeting. Photo is the inspiration for our next role-playing game, starting this coming week! 😊🌸

I’m seeing a lot of AI made ads lately in the various Facebook homeschool, parenting, etc groups I’m in. I’ve also been reading about how Portland Public Schools are working on incorporating the use of AI into curriculum. Here at Blossom, we reject the use of AI and embrace each student’s unique creativity!

Here is a cute, colorful poster my daughter made to encourage more new friends to join us this summer! ❤️

I have this Sunday, June 7th available for meetings! Who wants to come chat and see the space? 😄🎉

Hello, families! Blossom School’s summer program has begun, and I have just opened two spots as “pay-what-you-can” for families who are on a tighter budget.

If your child is interested in summer fun that includes outdoor play, making comic books, designing an animal diorama, baking, daily art, tabletop role-playing games, and more, send me a message today! 😊🌸

We had our last day of the 2025/2026 school year today! We celebrated with a pizza party, ice cream sundaes, field day games, and played board games that some of the students have been busy making over the last few weeks. It was so much fun!

Looking forward to nine weeks of our summer program now, starting on Monday! The kids are really excited to start working on their animal dioramas, a project we do every June. 💕🦥🦫🦙🐺🐴

One of the most beloved activities we do here at Blossom has always been our baking! Looking ahead to the 2026/2027 school year, I’m excited to give the group Baking Challenges (anyone else’s kid a fan of The Great British Bake-Off like mine?)! Pre-teens are capable of doing a lot successfully on their own, and baking boosts their confidence so much! It will be a great way for the girls to learn to work and have fun together too. 😁🌸

Blossom’s summer program begins in less than two weeks! Here are a few of the activities we have planned for our first week:

* Designing covers and brainstorming plot outlines for our first comic/short stories of the summer
* Creating anthropomorphic animal characters for an RPG adventure in a woodland setting
* Starting our read-aloud of The Penderwicks and making book club journals
* Solving an escape room challenge
* Making chocolate-covered frozen bananas
* Planning layout and materials needed for animal habitat dioramas

I keep my group small (no more than seven students at a time) so kids can get to know one another and make lasting friendships. Our daily schedule includes plenty of outdoor play and creative project time. The summer program is for all ages and genders (currently I have mainly 5th-6th grade ages enrolled).

I am running a flash special this week: new families who sign up for at least 3 days (reserved or with my “punch card” drop-in system) get one free day! Message me today to learn more. 😊🌸

One of the new things I did here at Blossom for the 2025/2026 school year were choose-your-own adventure style games. Students have enjoyed them so much! We started with a wilderness survival experience earlier in the year. Now we’re exploring a fantastical world with strange creatures and plants! Over the summer, students will play as anthropomorphic animals completing quests in a magical forest. We will start the 2026/2027 school year with young witches heading out into the world to improve their skills!

In addition to being a ton of fun (for the kids and myself!), these adventures help practice writing, reading, math, science, map-reading, cooperation between teammates, critical thinking, and so much more! Their creativity in making maps of these imaginary worlds and writing their character journals is amazing to see. 🤩