Bay Area Home School Outdoor Programs
Top 4 reasons to join TrackersKIDS Home School
1) Convenient locations in Berkeley, Oakland, Fairfax and Mill Valley
Within minutes of many Bay Area neighborhoods, utilizing some of the most spectacular natural areas and waterways!
2) We do more and have real adventures!
Compare the goals of our days with any other program out there. Students do more than go on hikes and play games. They get outside PLUS go boating, train archery, harvest and preserve wild foods, start their own business and much more.
3) Smaller group sizes
We have an average of 15% smaller group sizes than industry standard. Its more safe and more fun.
4) A child's competency is respected
We believe children are capable of so much more than our modern culture asks of them. We raise the bar of accomplishment and team leadership while gently guiding them to connect to the natural world.
Upcoming 2010 Home School courses
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2010 Home School Schedule
Fall
Forest Foxes
Let's build our connections to nature as we explore the wilderness and discover the plants and animals within it. Our voices will join together as we sing our gratitude to the earth and our creativity will be piqued as we build shelters and make crafts. We will hear the stories of those that lived on the land before us and practice our scout skills as we play games in the forest. With our low 1:5 ratio of instructors to kids, there will be plenty of opportunity to nurture each one of our curiosities as we tramp through forests, and meadows in all weather conditions. All Forest Foxes Programs are AGES 4-6, $494, Sep 13-Dec 17 from 9:30am-1pm
Ages 4-6 $494, Berkeley September 13-December 17, 2010 every Monday 9:30am-1pm
Ages 4-6 $494, Fairfax September 13-December 17, 2010 every Monday 9:30am-1pm
Ages 4-6 $494, Berkeley September 15-December 19, 2010 every Wednesday 9:30am-1pm
Ages 4-6 $494, Oakland September 17-December 21, 2010 every Friday 9:30am-1pm
Ages 4-6 $494, Mill Valley September 17-December 21, 2010 every Friday 9:30am-1pm
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Rangers Guild Homeschool Outdoors
This program is designed to give students a holistic understanding of the natural world and our place as human within it. By presenting students with a broad range of concepts and skills, it is our goal that students gain confidence, camaraderie, self reliance, and a strong connection to nature.
Ages 6-8 & 9-12 $650, Berkeley September 13-December 17, 2010 every Monday 9:30am-3pm
Ages 6-8 & 9-12 $650, Fairfax September 13-December 17, 2010 every Monday 9:30am-3pm
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Wilder's Guild Homeschool Outdoors
Named in honor of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the Wilders Guild offers homesteading activities. You child could make cheese from farm fresh goats milk to bring home or press apples in the cider press while dancing to fine fiddle music. You may find your young Wilder starting seedlings for planting in family gardens or even working on fiber arts projects, learning to spin, knit and sew their own clothing
Ages 6-8 & 9-12 $650, Mill Valley September 17-December 21, 2010 every Friday 9:30am-3pm
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Rangers & Mariners Guild Scout Team Marine
Scout Team Marine will educate and push teens in the time-honored classroom of the woods and the bay with intensive wilderness awareness skills and practical maritime skills. Students will work as a team to make decisions, complete projects and overcome obstacles. These team skills will be honed and put to the test in live action strategy games throughout the course.
Ages 12-15 $900, Berkeley September 17-December 21, 2010 every Friday 9:30am-3pm
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Rangers Guild Scout Team
We hone our awareness and journey into the wild places. Train to fire a bow by steady arm and keen aim. Learn to travel with ease through the wilderness with only the clothes on your back. Walk silently and invisibly through the forest, navigating by the sun and stars. Craft your own tools and shelter. And most importantly, read the subtle signs of nature, honing your intuition and awareness of the natural world.
We help children to feel like that group of kids wandering country backyards 50 years ago: independent, tired, muddy, wet and happy from the woods and wild. We are acutely aware of full and real hazards of the out of doors after years of working in environmental education. We try to move away from the highly structured and limiting tolerances of conventional environmental education while keeping kids truly safe but not encapsulated from, or phobic of nature. We are deep patriots to the value of offering guided yet very free and transparent experiences for kids. We believe it is okay to be thirsty at times, cold at times, and wet at times. It builds empathy and care for the gifts of life. It fosters adventure and sincere accomplishment. We also believe it is critical to feel supported and cared for as they truly explore their passion and responsibility. And through a healthy life immersed in nature, they test the limits and great potential of the often untapped physical and emotional resiliency they possess.
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