Tactile and kinestetic learners LOVE Fridays, and they are great for homeschoolers looking to enrich their educations and gain understanding of the abundance and beauty available through Nature and Effort. The work we do here builds "will-force" of the youth as well as body control because we do actual things
Farm
We do seasonal specific farm tasks and daily chores (for about 5-10 minutes). Each September we harvesting and getting the last vegetables starts in for Winter. October is bulb planting and shrub planting, plus more harvesting. We decorate for Heartsongs Halloween Festival. November is Tree planting. We pause farm projects during the winter to focus on making things, and winter projects in the forest. We get going propagating things in January and Feburary, and plant more under cover in Feb. and March. We harvest and make things from the farm as they become available. We also visit other farms and orchards to help them out and glean what we can (pun intended)
Forest
We head to the forest as much as we spend time on the farm. This could be forest bathing, playing in "Wild Kid Village", or doing a medicinal plant walk, foraging for mushrooms, or collecting wood for our fireplaces. We do forest art, leaf printing, and marvel in the wonder. We learn what to harvest, how to be respectful with our relationship to the forest. We go on a field trip 1x per month, often to a nearby forest.
Fun
We aim to have fun with various projects and crafts. We start each day off with check ins and some kind of game and overview of the day. We have made home made bows and arrows, made fire with flint and steel (bow + drill next) make soap, candles, custom buttons, done pottery, plaid croquet, frisbee golf, created a haunted house and shrunkle apple heads for halloween, and created our own custom obstacle course, among other things. We go on a field trip 1x per month somewhere around the Columbia River Gorge area, and get into fishing, geology, anthropology, hydrology, forest conservation.