Fireside Chats with Hitchcock staff and guests Casual conversations centered on nature, around a fire, enjoying the beauty of a crisp winter evening with hot beverages and nibbles. Thursdays at 6pm January 20 – Moon Gazing & Winter Owls March 17 – Natural History of a cup of Hot Chocolate April 14 – Indigenous Plant […]
Winter/Spring Birding Course with Scott Surner Join birder extraordinaire and veteran bird course instruction for this bigger and better than ever late winter/spring birding course. This course is all field trips, in all sorts of habitats with all kinds of birds! Course is limited to 12 participants and will be outdoor only for COVID Safety. Participants […]
Winter Forest Bathing at the Hitchcock Center With Todd Lynch Saturday, February 12, 2pm – 4:30pm and/or Saturday, March 19, 2pm – 4:30pm $25 per class REGISTER HERE Come experience a guided Forest therapy walk with Todd Lynch, certified ANFT guide. Forest and Nature Therapy offers us the opportunity to slow down. It re-aligns our […]
We go to the woods to think, learn, play, and explore in this afterschool series for upper-elementary schoolers. We will roam the grounds of the Hitchcock Center as we watch the seasons change our beautiful woods. We will visit stump city, ferns, and the far-away woods, play some organized games, and learn about the animals, […]
Hitchcock’s Nature Play Afterschool Program is designed to let kids be kids. Together we will run, jump, climb, invent, imagine, play and be free-range kids all while developing self-confidence and learning valuable social skills. During Spring Nature Play we will play in the mud and spring rains, look for bugs, and enjoy the warming outdoors. […]
In Homeschool I: Raindrop to Reservoir, we will dive into the exciting world of water. We will explore how all life depends on water, how we humans use water in our daily life, and how we can connect water to our on-site living building. We will approach learning with outdoor play, hands-on activities, journaling, songs, […]
In this evolving weekly homeschool class, we will become biologists, learning more about the life all around us. We will explore life in all sorts of ways – from using a microscope, to venturing into different habitats. We will discover what is underfoot, in the water, or growing right before our eyes. With games, experiments, […]
Each session of Art in the Forest we will explore and create in the beauty of the outdoors in Spring. The world will be waking up and we’ll be getting outside to make art in it! Our projects could include making casts of animal footprints, painting, and making flower presses. We’ll develop awareness of the […]
Hitchcock’s Nature Play Afterschool Program is designed to let kids be kids. Together we will run, jump, climb, invent, imagine, play and be free-range kids all while developing self-confidence and learning valuable social skills. During Spring Nature Play we will play in the mud and spring rains, look for bugs, and enjoy the warming outdoors. […]
Hitchcock’s Nature Play Afterschool Program is designed to let kids be kids. Together we will run, jump, climb, invent, imagine, play and be free-range kids all while developing self-confidence and learning valuable social skills. During Spring Nature Play we will play in the mud and spring rains, look for bugs, and enjoy the warming outdoors. […]
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