Fall 2011 Programs at Irvin Learning Farm!
Irvin Learning Farm & Nature Center offers outdoor education programs that are interest-led, experiential and environmentally and seasonally-based. Our programs are led by experienced, knowledgeable naturalists, educators and artists with a low student-instructor ratio. All programs are held entirely outdoors, rain or shine, warm weather or cold. Participants should dress for adventure and for the changing weather and bring a set of back up clothes as well as a healthy food-for-fuel snack and a water bottle.
Click here for our Fall Registration Form.
Date/Time |
Program |
Description |
Sept. 6th – Dec. 8th 9:00 – 12:00 13 sessions, 1 day/wk. |
“Forest Kindergarten” |
Our Forest Kindergarten is the perfect environment for young children. We invite your child to make new friends while also making discoveries in the forest, meadows, pond and creek as well as in our learning garden. Seasonal and other changes occurring in the natural world form the basis for developing our weekly activities. Included are opportunities to play imaginative games in the woods, to make music and artistic creations and to learn about the natural world, one another and about both farm and wild animals. |
Sept. 7th – Dec. 7th 9:00 – 12:00 13 sessions |
“School in the Wild” |
Your youngster is invited to join us in exploring the woods and the creek, building forts and fanciful hideouts, planting in the garden, looking at natural objects through a hand lens or microscope, tracking, and caring for our goats and chickens. Activities may also include making treasure bags, creating fanciful forts, drawing and painting, journaling, outdoor games, singing and dancing. Activities emerge both from seasonal changes as well as areas of interest expressed by the group. As questions surface, instructors support inquiry and exploration through curricular design, with special guests and projects and supported by available materials and resources. |
Sept. 6th – Dec. 6th 3:30 – 5:30 13 sessions |
“Trailblazers” |
Our Trailblazers’ Afterschool Nature Club offers diverse opportunities for children to learn, explore and engage with the natural world through active, hands-on activities and projects. Instructor planning incorporates the interests and needs of the group as well as working to extend each child’s understanding, knowledge and confidence as scientists and explorers of natural phenomena and change. Sessions may include primitive skills such as archery and fire building, camping skills such as cooking in the wild or creating a lean-to, tracking, hiking, plant identification including wild edibles, mapping and orienteering, predator-prey games other projects and activities that foster and support a love of the outdoors. |
Sept. 7th – Dec. 7th 3:00 – 5:00 13 sessions |
“Adventurers” |
Our Adventurers’ Afterschool Nature Club provides a myriad of opportunities for children to explore and engage with hands-on activities in the wild. It includes art-making with natural materials, hiking and exploring the woods, meadows, pond and creek, shelter building as well as time in our learning garden and caring for our farm animals. It may also include fire building and other primitive wilderness skills. Instructor planning and activities emerge both from seasonal changes as well as areas of interest expressed by the group. |
Sept. 9th – Dec. 9th 12:30 – 3:30 12 sessions |
“Outdoor Explorers”
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Our Outdoor Explorers program uses seasonal and other changes occurring in the natural world as the basis for developing weekly activities, explorations and projects. In addition, instructors utilize the diverse opportunities Triangle Land Conservancy’s 269 acre Irvin Farm site provides including: pond study, learning garden work and exploration, farm animal care, creek study and time exploring the extensive trail system and meadows. |
Payment for fall program enrollment is available by monthly installment. (See registration form for details).
Contact for Irvin Learning Farm:
Wendy Banning, ILF Program Director
Phone: (919) 942-7773
Email: wendy@learn-outside.com
Web: www.learn-outside.com