Goals & Schedule

Nature

In your time on the playground, in the garden, at the creek and at the Eno River, we hope you will…

• Develop an intimate and loving relationship with the natural landscapes you inhabit every day.
• Come to feel at home in wild places.
• Come to feel empowered and knowledgeable about how to take care of yourself while outdoors.
• Come to know, respect, and study the living things in your environment.
• Cultivate gratitude for the countless gifts that nature offers us, and find ways that you can offer care to the natural world in return.
• Enjoy the beauty of the outdoors; explore the creative potential of play with natural objects; and develop an understanding and appreciation of the elements – water, air, earth and fire.
• Develop an awareness and appreciation for natural cycles — the circle of seasons; animals that are born, grow and die; food that begins as seed and ends as compost.