For ages 11–17.
Mondays, 9:00 am–3:00 pm (with an overnight in spring!)
Location: 122 Daley Rd., East Chatham, NY. Get directions.
Fall Session 2023: 12 weeks (September 18–December 11; no program October 9, Indigenous People’s Day)
Winter Session 2024: 4 weeks (January 15–February 5)
Spring Session 2024: 12 weeks (March 4–May 20)
Full-year Tuition: $1,795 discounted tuition when you register for the full year, including all three sessions
Tuition by semester: $750 for the fall session; $250 for the Winter session; $890 for the spring session (includes an overnight)
We’ll craft around the campfire, build skills and competency in the outdoors, and learn and grow as a group as we:
- Push beyond our edge with challenging adventures
- Sink our teeth into primitive technology projects
- Hone our senses with awareness practices that are useful in the woods and in the human landscape
- Build naturalist and outdoor skills
- Create time for sharing the ups and downs of life
- Take one big hike in the fall semester, and do an overnight campout in the spring.
Curriculum areas are integrated into the rhythm and focus of our days. We study history by learning about the past and present-day ways that people related to the land, and science through expanding our knowledge of local flora and fauna, ecology, seasons, survival strategies and adaptations, and ethnobotany. Games, hikes, team-building exercises, balance and coordination, and sensory integration contribute to the development of fitness and body-awareness skills. Through journaling, storytelling, and communication, we practice using words and language.
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