Winter/ Spring 2022 Poemtree After School Nature Clubs

Who: For youth ages 5-12
What: Creative play-based (mostly) outdoor nature club
When: Woods Wednesdays meet 2:30-5:30 Wednesdays; Forest Fridays meets 3:30-5:30 Fridays
Where: Prairie Flower Children’s Center  2807 Duff Ave
How: Fill out the enrollment form on our website, www.prairieflowercc.org. Parents or caregivers transport children to PF; we encourage making carpool arrangements together!

Why: To give your child or pre-teen the gift of free time and space to play, explore their own imaginations, and build creative outdoor skills--with their friends in the woods!


★Our main activity is free play in our wonderful 14-acres of ravines, creeks, riverbanks, and woods. However, on any given day at Poemtree Nature Club you may find your child: learning woods & garden care, trading jokes, poems, & riddles, playing, climbing, hiking, keeping a nature journal, drawing, playing classic youth games like Mother-May-I and Capture the Flag, learning knot-tying, foraging, wood-working, whittling, building fires, learning tree and plant identification, climbing trees, playing music, hearing nature stories & writing our own, making maps, inventing games, building forts, building a dam in the creek or a rock museum, relaxing in a hammock and all manner of  other outdoor projects! During the winter months when days are shorter, we are at times forced indoors, where our main activities will be playing board games, cooking, making art, and other forms of crafting/ handwork (like weaving, knitting, sewing, and painting) following the impulses/interests of the children. We explore different themes, activities &/or skills seasonally.

★Woods Wednesdays, early start, 2:30-5:30*/  Winter/ Spring Semester Cost:
 $400/ full-time semester-20 weeks (monthly payment $80)
$220/ half-time semester-11 weeks (monthly payment $44)
Payment due first meeting of each month.

*Woods Wednesdays, later start, 3:30-5:30/  Winter/ Spring Semester Cost:
 $300/ full-time semester-20 weeks (monthly payment $60)
$165/ half-time semester-11 weeks (monthly payment $33)
Payment due first meeting of each month.


★ Forest Fridays Winter/ Spring Semester Cost:
 $285/ full-time semester--19 weeks ( monthly payment $57)  
$150/ half-time semester--9 weeks (monthly payment $30)
Payment due first meeting of each month.

★One month’s tuition deposit is required at registration to hold spot, deposit is applied to last month’s tuition.


 BRIDGE TO WOODS WEDNESDAY PROGRAM

What: A peaceful resting bridge between morning and afternoon programming for children involved in various programs/ schooling solutions.  

Who: All current Poemtree children AND all current preschool children AND other children who might benefit from this restful bridge between morning and afternoon.

When: 12-2:30 on Wednesdays. This program will take place immediately after the Prairie Flower preschool morning is done. Note: Children who are not enrolled in the Woods Wednesday Nature Club must be picked up at 2:30 pm.

Where: Prairie Flower Children’s Center, 2807 Duff Ave

How it works: All children in this program will bring a lunch from home, eat picnic-style together outside (as weather allows) from 12:15-12:45, and then rest on hammocks outside or cozy blankets inside until about 2:15 pm, when we'll get ready for Woods Wednesday Nature Club (or ready to go home).  All children, regardless of age, will be required to participate in this quiet rest and relax time, but they are welcome to bring books and quiet activities to use at their resting spots.

Cost:
$240/ full-time semester  (20 weeks) OR monthly payment of $48
$120/ half-time semester (10 weeks, alternating) OR monthly payment of $24

 
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