Welcome to Montessori Forest School

🥁🖼💐MUSIC & ART OUTSIDE! CAMP (JULY 5-9) LOCATION: SNOQUALMIE - CENTENNIAL FIELDS PARK 39903 SE PARK ST; MAUI TBD

Nature brings inspiration for all types of art forms.

We’ll dive into a number of different ways to express ourselves: painting, drawing, collage, dance, music, and more, all using natural materials and inspired by the park around us.

Children will learn all about ways to be creative in the great outdoors.

☀️🪐💥SOLAR SYSTEM SPACE CAMP (JULY 12-16) LOCATION: SNOQUALMIE VALLEY TRAIL (REINIG BRIDGE) SE REINIG RD PARK; MAUI TBD

Learning about the planets, our planet Earth, satellite planets, our Sun, Moon, Stars, Astrology, Astronomy and atmospheres, brings an awareness of environment and stewardship of care to our Galaxy in the Universe. Being outdoors, we get to experience the weather systems and learn more about the wonders of space.

🌱🌲🔥NATIVE PLANTS & TRIBAL CAMP (JULY 19-23) LOCATION: THREE FORKS NATURAL AREA SNOQUALMIE; MAUI TBD

Time to get down to Earth, do some tribal art face painting, fire-side indigenous story telling, explore indigenous tribes, drum play and songs, taste the wild Salmon Berries, learn to appreciate the animals and plants all around us, create our own Totem Poles, and introduce the "Since Time Immemorial" syllabus, talking about living at one with nature.

We introduce who the Snoqualmie Tribe are and hear the Lashootseed language.

🛠🔩⛺️CONSTRUCTION CAMP (JULY 26- JULY 30) LOCATION: 3 FORKS DOG PARK SNOQUALMIE; MAUI TBD

LET'S BUILD THINGS & INVENT THINGS!

Does your kiddo love to build, dig, create, and construct? This camp is an opportunity to explore different ways to be an engineer through interactions with the outdoors. Children will have open-ended projects using the elements of nature to create structures, build forts, use tools, and examine the built elements of the park around them.

🔍📝🦋TOOLS OF DISCOVERY SCIENCE CAMP (AUG 2-6) LOCATION: SNOQUALMIE 3 FORKS DOG PARK; MAUI TBD

Discover the park’s many wonders in this two-week camp. Children will encounter the insects, trails, and nooks of the park using tools for science learning- magnifying glasses, binoculars, maps, shovels, books, and more. We’ll adventure in and around our fabulous class spaces and hone our investigative skills and become true experts in the park’s ecology, history, and hidden secrets!

🏝💧🌎WATER EXPLORATION CAMP (Aug 9-13) LOCATION: TANNER LANDING PARK, NORTH BEND; MAUI TBD

Children LOVE play and LOVE water! One of the most beloved camps by all children: a Practical Life experience filled with water play and learning about how awesome water is - water cycles, water science and water works.

🤸🏼🧘🏻‍♂️🏆SPORTS & DANCE CAMP (AUG 16-20) LOCATION: SNOQUALMIE CENTENNIAL FIELDS PARK; MAUI TBD

From sack races to stone-in-a-spoon races, three-legged races, wheelbarrow races and obstacle courses, Forest School Ninja Warrior Fun in the sun has all the children getting super fit and healthy in the fresh air, with lots of movement and sports.

Dance routines stimulate the brain with hand-eye coordination, foot-eye coordination, rhythm and timing.

Let's celebrate good times!

CAMP GRADUATION CERTIFICATES FOR CHILDREN WHO ATTEND ALL 7 CAMPS will be given in a team-building ceremony on the last day of this camp, from 2:30-3:15pm.

SUMMER CAMP ENROLLMENT FORM

TYPE IN THE APPLICABLE TIME (FULL DAY OR HALF DAY) AND DAYS (M-F OR M/T/W/TH; M/W/F; T/TH

Child's first & last Names & Nickname, Age & Birthday*

Primary Guardian's Name, Phone Number & Email*

Primary Guardian's Address*

I’m signing up for the 🥁🖼💐MUSIC & ART OUTSIDE! CAMP (JULY 6-10); State Full Day /Half Day; State which days*

I’m signing up for the☀️🪐💥SOLAR SYSTEM CAMP (JULY 13-17) ; State Full Day /Half Day; State which days*

I’m signing up for the 🌱🌲🔥NATIVE PLANTS & TRIBAL CAMP (JULY 20-24) ; State Full Day /Half Day; State which days*

I’m signing up for the 🛠🔩⛺️CONSTRUCTION CAMP (JULY 27- JULY 31) ; State Full Day /Half Day; State which days*

I'm signing up for the 🔍📝🦋TOOLS OF DISCOVERY CAMP (AUG 3-7); State Full Day /Half Day; State which days

I’m signing up for the 🏝💧🌎WATER EXPLORATION CAMP (AUG 10-14); State Full Day /Half Day; State which days*

I’m signing up for the 🤸🏼🧘🏻‍♂️🏆SPORTS & DANCE CAMP (AUG 17-21); State Full Day /Half Day; State which days*

A full week's deposit (covers final week) & $30 non-refundable registration fee is to be paid by June 30th; weekly payments by first day to be made*

I have read and understand the Family Handbook rules and policies & waivers regarding Montessori Forest School Summer Camps*

Email*

JOIN THE FUN! Register early as camps will fill up quickly.

Montessori Forest School

39570 Southeast Park Street, Snoqualmie, Washington 98065, United States

(267) 401-5913

☀️A DAY AT SUMMER CAMP☀️

Arrival, greeting time (9:30 AM*): Children will be dropped off at a designated location in the park. Families will be screened, have an opportunity to connect with our teachers, get settled, and engage in an opening activity.

Group meeting Drum Circle & plan: Children and instructors come together for a meeting where they will sing songs, dance, and discuss the day’s happening.

Free play & enrichment activities: Children will be free to explore the class space, play and collaborate with others. Instructors will set out activities based on the camp theme and support children in completing them if they choose.

Snack & story: Please provide a healthy snack (usually a fruit/veggie and a grain). Snack is a great time for us to tell a story or meet together.

Adventure or explore time: Teachers will lead an adventure out into the park or forest and stop to play at one of the park’s many features (not playgrounds).

Lunch & free play: We’ll have lunch out of our lunch boxes, either in the class space or on our adventure.

Half Day Campers Pick up (1:20-1:30*): Children are picked up in a designated area in the park.

Full Day Campers Rest Time (1:30-2:00): Children needing to take a nap will be given their own individual, sanitized sleeping mat.

Guardians to supply the outdoor sleeping mat / cot /hammock, clean sheets and bedding for the mat /cot.
Guardians will take home, wash and sanitize the bedding, sheets and /or hammock daily, hand them to the teachers at the start of each day, handed back by the teachers at the end of each day at pick-up.
Mats /cots will be kept in the Teachers’ vehicles, dropped off on the first day of the start of the camp selected and returned to the guardian at the end of their child’s last camp day, unless needed back earlier for any reason.
Teachers will spray, wipe and sanitize mats and cots.
No pillows nor blankets required.
Children will wear their clothing and possibly shoes during nap time.
Nap mats will be placed 10 feet apart, at a covered area for resting.
Non-Nappers get a half hour to do other activities such as reading and journalling.

Non-nappers will be read to from a chapter book (Roald Dahl; Enid Blighton; The Secret Garden...) and given materials to create and keep a journal.

Wild last 90 minutes: Full Day Children have one BIG, FUN SURPRISE task / game /collaboration to complete, specific to the theme of the camp, then Drum Circle Farewell near the designated pick up area.

Full Day Pick up (3:20-3:30*): Children are picked up in a designated area in the park.

CAMP GRADUATION CERTIFICATES FOR CHILDREN WHO ATTEND ALL 7 CAMPS will be given in a team-building ceremony on the last day of the 7th camp, from 2:30-3:15pm.

SUMMER CAMP 2☀️21

Here Comes The Sun! REGISTER NOW for Summer camps 2☀️21 !

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MAKE YOUR SUMMER AWESOME! 2☀️21 CAMP!