General Programmes Offered
Please note - we are willing to modify or add to these programme options in order to fulfill your educational needs for your class. Please call or email to discuss your custom programme ideas.

Animal Tracking and Habitat
Grade 1 to Grade 8
Full Day
How do animals walk, hop, trot or gallop? Search the forest floor for clues to visiting foxes, rabbits, pheasants, and more. Look for dens, burrows, and nests. Play a stalking game and participate in sensory activities.

Celebrate Winter January to March
Half Day or Full Day
Don't let the chilly winter weather keep you indoors. For Primary grades, we've got snowshoeing, crazy carpets, barn animals, crafts, science experiments and nature walk options plus hot chocolate to warm you up!

For Junior and Senior grades we offer co-operative games and group dynamics as well as any or all of the above. This is a GREAT option for winter elective days.

Creepy, Crawly Critters
JK to Grade 4
Half Day
Study some fascinating small creatures. Insects may be small, but their impact on nature is enormous. Meet an insect, find out how they get around, discuss camouflage, habitat and food.

Farm
Pre-school Half Day
JK to Grade 8 Full Day
Interact with barn and field animals, poultry and rabbits. Collect and weigh eggs and go on a hayride. Discuss animal parts and functions, adapting to seasonal changes and farm animal characteristics.

Spring Garden
Pre-school to Grade 4
Half Day (can be combined with any other half day program to make a full day program)
Discuss preparing the soil and plant indoors for later transplanting, plant outdoors in Green Acres gardens or in individual pots for the students to take back to the classroom. Enjoy a garden story or craft.

Orienteering
Grade 1 to Grade 3 - Half Day
Grade 4 to Grade 8 - Full Day
Learn to solve navigational problems and have lots of fun. Use of maps, symbols, compass for older grades, as navigational tools will be discussed. We use grade appropriate tools and concepts.

Pond and Stream
Grade 1 to Grade 8
Full Day
Scoop up a frog, catch a minnow, or discover a crayfish hiding under a rock. Examine surface dwellers, bottom dwellers and the tracks of pond or stream visitors. Talk about flow rate and depth, requirements for a healthy pond or stream system and compare them.

Pumpkin Harvest
Pre-school to Grade 4
Half Day (can be combined with any other half day program to make a full day program)
Roast pumpkin seeds, visit a harvest display to learn how pumpkins and fall vegetables grow, make a craft, enjoy a hayride and participate in a scavenger hunt from late September to early November. Each student takes home a small pie pumpkin.

Pioneer Life
Grade 1 to Grade 6
Full Day
Come and compare and contrast the lives of pioneer and present-day children, buildings in a pioneer settlement with those of present day and tools used by the pioneers to today's tools during a walkabout of the property. Investigate pioneer diet and compare it to that of present-day people with a hands on biscuit and butter making programme and compare past and present techniques of processing products with our candle making unit.

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