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Program
Heartsong is a small, private homeschool enrichment community created by families coming together to offer meaningful learning experiences for our children. Children ages 4.5–12 learn in small, mixed-age groups where they are deeply known, supported, and encouraged to follow their curiosity, interests, strengths, and growing sense of self.
Caring parents and community members serve as mentors, bringing their own gifts, skills, passions, and life experiences into the children’s learning. Rather than separating learning from everyday life, we create opportunities to explore, make, build, wonder, solve problems, care for one another, and participate meaningfully in the living world.
Our approach is nature-based, relationship-centered, and responsive to the children in front of us. Drawing from Forest School, Waldorf-inspired education, experiential and emergent learning, unschooling, Appreciative Inquiry, and the Nurtured Heart Approach, we honor different learning styles and neurodiversities while supporting emotional awareness and nervous-system regulation alongside academic growth.
Heartsong is co-created by the families who make up our community. Children are known and valued not only by their mentors and friends, but by a wider circle of families who care about their growth. Together, we nurture belonging, curiosity, creativity, compassionate leadership, mutual care, and a lasting relationship with the natural world.
Activities
Our Learning Center blends Forest School, Waldorf, and Homeschool and Unschooling Approaches. We spend as much of our days outdoors as possible learning with and through Nature. Each day has a rhythm that is attuned to the children's needs and aligned with the seasons. The academic curriculum is wholistically woven into daily activities which include ample if not total outdoor time. Activities offerings include crafting, wood working, art, music, gardening, nature studies, plant identification, field trips, cooking, fire building, music, storytelling, weaving, dancing, and more. The children are divided during more specific lessons or activities according to individual interests and skill level. Social and emotional intelligence are a foundational pillar we are constantly tending at all ages.
The Heartsong Learning Center is not a school but rather a homeschooling enrichment learning center and a private membership association. Please see our Membership Page for more details.
Kinder Program (Ages 4.5 - 6)
Childhood is a magical time. Children thrive in relationship to the natural world. From birth to age six, young children learn in very specific and dream-like ways. Rhythm, repetition and imitation are their main functions of learning. Small children deeply experience the impulses they receive from the world around them. They then take this information and embody it through play.
We play Outside! In all of the elements, including the mud. Where imagination and the natural world collide and blossom. Outdoor play takes place the first hour or more of every day. Expect that their outer layers will be dirty and/or wet depending on the season. Through this play, children are building social skills, problem solving, counting, sharing, building small and gross motor skills and more.
Story is another integral part of our program. We tell animal stories, nature stories and tales from around the world. These stories include archetypal characters that subtly convey messages on morality, goodness, and the deep truths of life. Story is also used in a curative way to help process and meet challenging moments that may come up for our class. Plays and puppet shows are often incorporated into our story telling.
Song is a part of our daily rhythm. Each day starts with songs for the day, for the season and sometimes just for fun. We also use song and music to alert children to transitions in activity and before shared meal time, story time and after play time. Song gently reminds children of what happens next in our daily rhythm.
Arts, crafts and handwork are included every day! Not all art projects will come home as much of it is ephemeral and returns back to the earth.
Grades Program (Ages 7-11)
We spread our wings as we cross the threshold into the “Grades” and with our Kinder Foundations, we start exploring the ways each child is called to learn. Children will engage all of their senses in understanding themselves, the world around them, and stretching and growing their innate capacities. Our educators offer lessons on age appropriate themes. Songs, mythology, math, science, language arts, handwork, plays, unstructured play, gardening and movement bring grade/age appropriate themes to life within the child. Learning mentors teach to the whole child from their own ensouled understanding of the curriculum. Mornings are dedicated to movement and main lessons. Afternoons are focused on handwork, music and practical skills.
