Bay Area Outdoor Explorers Home School
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.
Learning from the Land
Themes include bird language, animal tracks, native and medicinal plants, weather and seasonal changes, ocean ecology, animal adaptations, and predator-prey relationships.
Scout Skills Activities will include animal forms, archery, stalking and camouflage, strategic games, yoga and creative movement.
Primitive Crafts Students learn to make shelter, fire by friction, cordage and nets, stone tools, beading and pottery, knife use and carving. They will also learn about boating, leatherwork, ropes and knots.
Nature Art use the living world around you to express your imagination.
Crafts may include bowmaking, fire kit construction, bolas and atlatl, pottery, burn spoons, knifemaking
Please read every word on this page together with your child. Especially "A Good Fit?" at the bottom of the page. TrackersNW invests in families and students dedicated to maturity and accountability as a team. The experience of your child is heightened as these filters insure a safe, supportive and competent collaboration with both our instructors and all other team members (students).
Program Schedule Every Monday with holiday breaks.
Taster Day Sign up for the first day of class, no commitment. Then sign up for the full session. Please note that if you enroll after the taster day, yearly tutition is still full price in addition to the taster day tuition.
Register for Outdoor Explorers Home School
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Ages 7-10
$450
for 9-weeks Winter Session January 18-March 15, 2010 Mondays 9:30am-3:30pm Tilden Regional Park, Berkeley Marina and Redwood Regional Park, Berkeley CA |
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Ages 7-10
$500
for 10-weeks Spring Session March 29-June 7, 2010 Mondays 9:30am-3:30pm Tilden Regional Park, Berkeley Marina and Redwood Regional Park, Berkeley CA |
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Ages 7-10
$50
Winter Taster January 18, 2010 First Monday 9:30am-3:30pm Tilden Regional Park, Berkeley Marina and Redwood Regional Park, Berkeley CA |
A Good Fit?
Before you register PLEASE READ the critical information below to help you decide if your program is the right match for you or you child. TrackersNW invests in families and students dedicated to maturity and accountability as a team. The experience of your child is heightened as these filters insure a safe, supportive and competent collaboration with both our instructors and all other team members (including students).
This program is a good fit for the child and parent who...
• trust one another
• are interested in and empathetic to the natural world
• crave a different way of experiencing and seeing both natural and modern world
• want to have fun
• possess a sense of adventure
• make intelligent choices
• display competent autonomy when needed
• can make and keep clear agreements concerning safety
• can help insure the safety of their peers and collaborators
• works diligently toward adult accountability, consequences and responsibility
• will come dressed appropriately to stay warm, dry and healthy
• is okay with being muddy, cold and wet at times
• can be a real kid
• shares well with others
This program is NOT a good fit for children who...
• are not interested in nature & scout awareness
• are not empathetic for the natural world
• are being forced to come to camp
• cannot display competent autonomy when needed
• cannot make and keep clear agreements and choices concerning safety
• is kept inside all the time so may be uncomfortable
• will not dress appropriately to stay warm, dry and healthy
• is not okay with being muddy, cold and wet at times
• has trouble working with others and respecting the needs of other participants
Please note that if your child is positively working on behavior, we are willing to work with them and you with clear agreements
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