Guiding Kids in Playful Connection with the Natural World
Guiding Kids in Playful Connection with the Natural World
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FALL 2026/2027 SCHOOL YEAR ENROLLMENT OPENS MONDAY MARCH 30TH!
Raising Earth's Stewards
Encouraging playful relationship-building between children and the living environment around them.
a space for exploring, questioning, and understanding the Natural world and its inhabitants.
Providing opportunities for families to cultivate an on-going relationship with the earth to inspire generational change in how we care for it.
Learning by Heart
Cultivating a deep awareness of the cycles of the Earth and ourselves through immersive, experiential learning.
A Focus on connection, play, following passions, imagination, and knowing our inward and outward selves - Nourishing Children as their WHOLE selves.
Supporting an awareness of Mind, Body, and Spirit through interactions with nature and community.
Current and Upcoming Programs and Events
Forest School
Forest School
Ages 2.5-9
Drop-Off Program
Walnut (2.5-4)
Birch (3-6)
Cedar (5-9)
Heart-centered, curiosity driven, nature-rooted learning
Meets September - June
1 or 2 days per week
Summer Camp
Summer Camp
June-August 2026
3- Days & Full- Day Camp options
Where kids can :
Feel truly wild
Learn valuable skills such as foraging, fishing, survival skills, tracking, and more
Follow their curiosity and make meaningful friendships and memories!
OVA Hybrid
OVA Hybrid
*Fall 2026 Registration Open
Oxford Virtual Academy
Elementary (Ages 5-12):
Fridays 10-12
Fridays 12-2
Middle School (Ages 11-14):
Fridays 12-2
Honoring the land we gather on
We acknowledge that we gather as Friend of the Woods on the traditional land of the Anishinaabek- past and present.
We give thanks to these hosts for care taking this land for thousands of years, for their countless sacrifices, for their Elders and knowledge keepers, and for their youth whose very existence is proof of their resilience as a people.
It is these true founders of this land that we are endowed.
We also give gratitude to the land that we our on.
We honor that we share this land with the home of many trees, squirrels, deer and all the other living plants and creatures of this forest. Out of respect and gratitude, we are committed to continuing to learn how to be better stewards of this land and teach the next generation as well.
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