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Muck and Wonder Farm School is a licensed, full-day preschool program serving children from 2 years of age through entry to first grade.
On our historic and beloved acre of land, children experience community, nature-based play, process art, explorations and play invitations, caring for animals, farm chores, gathering times— and EVEN MORE PLAY.
Our teachers design curriculum around the unique group of children in their care, responding to their interests, questions, ideas, and developmental needs. Throughout the year, we also revere the seasons as they come and pass through community celebrations and events, gardening, songs, movement, herbology, and forest craft.
Our school day takes place mostly outdoors, where children have the freedom to move their bodies, take appropriate risks, explore deeply, build relationships, and develop a meaningful connection to the natural world.
Because playing should be messy, freeing, and magical.
Here at Muck and Wonder…
We believe the best early childhood environments allow children to do what they were born to do: PLAY, explore, and connect with the natural world.
We believe children— and their parents, yearn for connection, belonging, and community.
We believe children need to feel safe and supported by the adults in their lives so they can learn to trust their bodies, their feelings, and themselves.
We believe children deserve to have their families woven into their lives, relationships, and learning environments.
We believe children are natural risk-takers, explorers, creators, thinkers, doers, artists, and the social change-makers of the next generation.
We believe children deserve the space to ask questions, wonder deeply, and discover their own answers.
We believe PLAY IS PRACTICE and that children learn best through WHOLE-BODY LEARNING— using their minds, bodies, senses, relationships, and imaginations to make sense of the world (in true Art Beast fashion… learn more below).
Children chase their ideas.
We believe that the best learning opportunities take place when a child’s whole body is engaged, and they are excited and passionate about their ideas. Children are welcomed and empowered to explore a wide range of experiences and feelings as they build friendships, test strengths, experiment, experience disappointment and try new experiences.
Children derive value and meaning from their play when they are given an opportunity to offer their energy, creativity, voice, and ideas to the world.
Children Need Nature.
We believe children feel an innate connection with nature and deserve to be outdoors as often as possible. Our outdoor space has fruit trees, sand, water, mud pie stations, a community garden, Muck Mountain, Log Land and many open-ended opportunities for exploring, creating, climbing, sensory, and swinging.
The animals that live with us on our property have much to teach us about unconditional love, stubbornness, and silliness.
