Turtle Island Nature Camp
*The event has already taken place on this date: Fri, 07/27/2018
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Welcome to the Turtle Island Summer Farm-Based Education “Mini-Camp” at Kitchawan Farm! With over 20 years of conducting successful educational programs and projects for children outdoors in nature and indoors in schools, the team of Something Good in the World educators is delighted to offer two weeks of summer activities for children ages 6-12.
Turtle Island brings together experienced teachers and talented teaching artists to share their professional expertise with children in the areas of Art, Design, Handicrafts, Music, Movement, Theatre, Farming, Wilderness Skills, and much more. Each week has a different theme, and yet all are interconnected, allowing children the opportunity to build on what they are learning if they are able to attend for two weeks, or to focus in on one particular area if they come for one week.
In addition to the theme-related activities for the session, each week will include hiking on the trails; playing games in the shady woods; daily farm chores such as composting, planting, weeding, harvesting, and chicken care; farm and nature-based arts and crafts projects; learning about alter- native energy systems that use solar, wind, water, and kid- power as renewable resources; free time for games and personal projects, creative play in the "Children's Peaceful Garden," and plenty of time to enjoy being in nature.
Week One: Earth Heroes July 16 - 20
The natural wonders of music, rhythm, and theater come alive in this week's exploration of the connection between humanity and our home planet Earth. Each day will spiral through a different aspect of nature’s living systems and the kaleidoscope of human expression - using dynamic rhythm training, improvisational games, songs and stories, and developing sensory awareness within the ecologies of the farm and
forest. The week will conclude with a special performance for families and friends, woven together from the song and story threads of our Turtle Island experience.
Week Two: Sustainable Arts and Crafts on the Farm July 23 - 27
This session will help us to develop a greater awareness of the environment and how to live sustainably, using the wonderful ecology of Kitchawan Farm. We'll engage in many farm-based arts and handicraft projects such as: wool crafts, organic vegetable gardening, composting and worm bins, landscape design with renewable energy sources, and re-discovering traditional methods for making products needed for daily living; using beeswax, honey, eggs, herbs, seeds, vegetables, flowers—all right from the Farm! An exhibition of the children's creations will take place on the last day of this session for an all-around sensory experience of the week.
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