Pathfinders
Homeschool Enrichment Program
Ages 6-10 years old
Available Fall, Winter & Spring in Idaho
Let your child flourish in the forest! Our curriculum is a blend of Waldorf principles, European forest school approaches, and rooted in play-based practices.
Wild Beginnings Nature School is a place where children thrive through exploration, play, and connection with nature. Each day, we embrace unstructured play as a vital opportunity for children to socialize, express their ideas, problem-solve, and develop a deep relationship with the natural world around them.
We take a daily Wellness Moment, where children pause to reflect, observe, and engage with their surroundings—fostering mindfulness, appreciation, and a sense of calm in nature.
Long periods of exploration and discovery allow children to follow their curiosity, develop resilience, and learn through hands-on experiences in the forest. Alongside this free exploration, we offer a daily activity, designed to spark creativity, critical thinking, and connection to the environment.
Through this balanced approach, children grow in confidence, independence, and a lifelong love for learning in the great outdoors.
Pathfinders is a homeschool enrichment program broken up into 11 week segments of fun seasonal based learning. It is available Fall, Winter, and Spring. The classes are held exclusively outdoors. We put up our own shelters or use the available park shelters to accommodate for rain, snow, and wind. Please see the parent handbook for other weather accommodations.
A peek into a day in the Pathfinders Class
Arrival and Open Play
Circle time with Songs and Stories
Wellness Moment
Lesson and Activity
Snack/Small meal
Unstructured Free play
Goodbye Circle
*Structure of class is flexible and will depend on students interests and needs.
Incorporated Skills:
Bushcraft Skills
Nature presents challenges! We will learn basic, age appropriate, wilderness and survival skills such as outdoor safety, shelter building, knots, fire making skills and safety, plant identification, and navigation.
Art & Handicraft
We will work on strengthening our fine-motor skills while we create using clay, beeswax, mud, sewing, finger knitting, nature crafting, and more.
Outdoor Cooking
Calling all choppers, peelers, stirrers, and taste testers. This skill is used to bring out the chef in us all as we create and share meals and snacks outdoors together.
Adventure
A child-led adventure that includes water/mud/snow play, hiking and exploring, games and life skills, sensory connections, crafting and creating, and lots of fun and adventure.
Location, Date & Time
Eagle, ID
Eagle Island State Park
165 Eagle Island Pkwy, Eagle, ID 83616
Tuesday/Thursday
9:30am-12:30pm

