5 Acre Woods

Daily Rhythm:

• Circle Time: Time to connect with each other through singing, map work, and movement. With occasional activities such as show and tell, breathing, meditation, and team building.

• Main Lesson Block – History: This block covers our history lesson and activity. It includes reading aloud and activities based on what we are learning. Each week, we review what we’ve learned in previous weeks. We incorporate games, acting, arts, crafts or other kinesthetic methods of learning to make it come alive for children.

• Snack and Outdoor Recess: We know it’s important for kids to have free time together outdoors, and we aim to provide approximately an hour of outside free play each day.

• Lunch/Book Club: During lunch we transition to our creative writing/literature portion of our day. We will read 1-2 books each semester to learn storytelling techniques and discuss during our lunch break.

• Main Lesson Block – Creative Expression/ Writing: This portion of the day we will work on on our larger capstone projects for the semester such as creating poems, writing songs, world building, short stories, filmmaking, and other visual and performing arts based on what we learned in history and literature.

• Closing Circle and Clean Up Our last portion of the day ends with Clean Up and then a final Circle Time.