My daughter attends a forest kindergarten (so kind of crunchy parents) and I've been super impressed with the range of names! These are all kids aged 3-6ish in a suburb of a mid-sized city.
Girls
- Lahae
- Georgia
- Bella
- Harper
- Thora
- Ophelia (my kid)
- Lizzy
- Fiona
- Gwendolyn goes by Dolly
- Poppy
- Lucy
- Grace
- Niamh
- Astrid
Boys
- Felix (brothers)
- Jethro (brothers)
- Kingston
- James
- Luke
- William
- Peter
- Ned
- Atsuya
- Max
- Bentley
- Christian
- Jaxson
- Bellamy
- Luca
I can't remember if it's on r/nosleep or other scary subreddit but I read this story way back 4 years ago? I thought I saved it but it was not on my saved. So here are the details I can remember. I tried finding it but to no luck I can't. This reddit post was really popular.
-The story is a flashback, he was now retired. He said that this particular rescue haunted him forever and he still gets nightmares about it -The kids literally vanished. No signs of blood, trails or anything -it mentioned something about twigs. -a month after, they found most of the kids in a cave, naked, laid down in a straight line with their clothes neatly folded beside them. dead and I think they drowned. -the last kid was found alive but she kept on yelling something when they found her -i thinks it is set on Canada because I remember searching the event on the net
That's all I can remember. I do hope someone has already read this too. Thank you in advance!
New to the area and canβt find what Iβm looking for via Google- wondering if anyone here knows of a forest preschool/kindergarten in the KC area? Basically, the kids are outside all day regardless of weather (except dangerous weather obvi) - thanks!
This is my ultimate career goal.
To buy wooded acreage and create a living, breathing classroom outdoors in nature.
I feel like this is more of a Scandinavian or European thing but it's starting to catch on in the U.S.
Someone showed me a trailer about a movie which I described roughly in the title. From what I remember:
- The little girl was definitely screaming and maybe hitting/throwing all around, seemed like anger problems or something along that line
- IIRC the parents took her to multiple kindergartens/schools before they found a place for her
- My memories could be wrong and it was not a forest kindergarten/school, but a private teacher who took her to a forest cabin to teach her there.
- Scandinavian or German cast, the trailer wasn't in English but subtitled.
- It was most likely a small-budget production
- Nominated/won on some film festivals
Also, honestly f*ck Google and their algorythm, I could've easily found this by keywords a few months ago. Now the results are all over the place.
Watched a youtube clip a while ago about "forest kindergartens" where children are outdoors no matter the weather. They climb trees, whittle, learn about nature and so on. It just came up in my recommended and I just rewatched it and they mention that the first one opened in 2007 in the US.
From: @TheBSD405 Itβs the first day of Kindergarten and students at Sherwood Forest are excited to learn! They quickly picked up Spanish in a dual-language classroom and learned sign language in another. Students from the PACIFIC program joined in and were immersed in the activities! https://t.co/4tS82Bjch5 http://twitter.com/TheBSD405/status/1171171450595815430
https://youtu.be/Jkiij9dJfcw
The Australian program "dateline" visited a danish Forrest kindergarten /outdoor daycare for the 3-6 year Olds. This is pretty normal here. Kids running in the Forrest without a fence, playing by the water, climbing trees, carve wood with knives... There are also "normal" daycare centers inside, worth a fence and and a playground. π but here they still climb and carve and sit around the campfire.
PSA that sign-up for the immersion kindergartens is approaching. Dec 3-21 for siblings of existing immersion students, 1/7-2/8. If more "new" students (non-siblings) sign up than space, there will be a lottery on 2/15 and letters mailed on 2/22. You can sign up for both programs/lotteries, but can ultimately enroll in only one.
I've got two kids in the Chinese program (K and 5) so willing to answer any questions you might have, as well.
Asheville Forest School is now Growing Wild Forest School! We're still the same group of families meeting in the same awesome location (behind Unity Church on the Hominy Creek Greenway) and we're still the first nonprofit nature connection school connected to The Forest School Foundation- and we're under new management, and a new name. We're now enrolling for summer camps and next school year!
Kids grow best outdoors. At Growing Wild, kids ages 3-6 come to the forest every day for connection with the plants and creatures, weather, each other, and themselves. In all weather, our days include songs, crafts, beginning practical skills, games, and plenty of unstructured play. The benefits of abundant time outdoors for young children cannot be overstated; we humans haven't (yet) evolved past our intrinsic biological needs for movement, imaginative play, light, and a sense of belonging to something greater than ourselves.
I welcome questions here or in PM :) I'm Kathryn, one of the original founders of the Foundation and school, and recently returned teacher.
