Flora and Fauna Learning Center

2026 Garden Party 🌱✨

Thank you to all the families who made time to join us for our annual Garden Party! This special community event is an opportunity for families to connect while allowing our students to experience the beauty of community in action. It truly takes a village 🌟

This year’s scavenger hunt gave students the chance to proudly show off their knowledge of the plants and gardens around our yard — identifying yarrow, mullein, beets, borage, raspberry bushes, apple trees, and more. Families enjoyed bubbles, soccer, planting activities, potluck treats, playdate planning, and meaningful conversations that help grow long-lasting connections within our community.

Thank you for helping us create such a joyful and connected day together 💚✨

Full Time Summer School Age Program ☀️
Now Enrolling for a June 2026 start date.

☀️Summer that keeps growing minds 🌱

Our outdoor school-age program offers hands-on, project-based learning in a self-contained outdoor classroom — so students stay curious, engaged, and learning all summer long.

✨ Less screen time, more real-world learning
📚 Reading & writing through research, planning, and reflection
🔢 Math through measuring, mapping, and problem-solving
🔬 Science & STEM through building, testing, and exploring
🤝 Social skills through collaboration and community projects

Children strengthen academic foundations while moving, creating, and connecting — because summer should support school readiness and joy.

Form 🔗 in bio and on website 🙂

Child care is already stretched to the breaking point.

Families are struggling with rising costs. Providers are operating on razor-thin margins. Now lawmakers are considering cuts to Working Connections Child Care (WCCC) while advancing 2SHB 1128—new oversight without a sustainable funding plan.

This approach risks:
• Higher tuition
• Fewer child care slots
• Longer waitlists

Washington doesn’t have a regulation problem. It has an investment problem.

📢 Tell lawmakers to prioritize funding solutions. Vote NO on 2SHB 1128.
🔗 Link in bio 🔗

Weather as Curriculum ❄️

While building an igloo-style snow fort, children in our program learned many things in the process:
🧊 Explored math and spatial reasoning through counting and stacking snow blocks
🧊 Strengthened language and cognitive skills by listening to and following shared directions
🧊 Practiced prosocial skills through collaboration and peer mentorship

As part of our anti-bias, land- and place-based learning, we discussed how some Indigenous peoples of the Arctic traditionally build igloos to live safely and warmly in cold climates—highlighting human ingenuity, shared community knowledge through generations, and adaptation to place as ways of living in relationship with the environment, honoring many ways of knowing, building, and belonging.

Nearly 100 snow bricks built and laid, together.

Plant the Seed & join our community today 🌱 Availability for a June 2026 and September 2026 start date.
Waitlist 🔗 in bio and on website 🙂

Self Portraits, some of our Kindergarten Prep children 🧒🏽🧑🏻‍🦰👧🏼

We start September with curriculum revolving around Self, Similarities, and Differences. A favorite book in our classroom is Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder 💛

🎃 we always look forward to pumpkin week!

Fall Harvest 🌽 🫘 🎃 harvests are sent home with families throughout the season from peas, radishes, and lettuces in spring to tomatoes, corn, beans, and squash in the fall.