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Adventure School meets The Anarchy Zone!

Adventure School meets The Anarchy Zone!

By Rusty Keeler on December 2, 2012

So if you remember, I’ve been working with local friends to create a day-a-week traveling “forest school” for our preschool-age kids — “Adventure School” . Each week we pick a different family’s land to visit where the children can explore, play, create, construct, balance, and build fires. We’ve visited forests in fall, creeks in summer, ...read more

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Adventure School Group – in session!

Adventure School Group – in session!

By Rusty Keeler on September 13, 2012

Friends and I have been dreaming of starting an adventure school and this week we began the first Tuesday of the Adventure School Group’s 2012-13 school year. Yay!  Inspired by forest schools and nature kindergartens we are starting with a one-day-a-week morning adventure session rotating between various locations. (some families live by a creek. others ...read more

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Creekside Adventure School

Creekside Adventure School

By Rusty Keeler on May 16, 2012

  Gotta love it: learning about the world by being in the world. Up close and personal style. After all the years of dreaming and designing children’s spaces I finally have a child of my own: Julian James Keeler, born Jan 8, 2012. yay! So what’s a new parent to do but dream up an Art ...read more

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Open Spaces Preschool!

By Rusty Keeler on November 18, 2010

OK. Check out this place. One of the great preschools of the world. The kids are indoors – outdoors, whichever they choose. great BIG sand play (wait until you see the MUD PLAY – stay tuned till next week, friends), chickens, pigs, cows, a pet DEER for heavens’s sake! vegetable beds, fruit trees. and lo ...read more

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