Our Mission

Drop off, Stretching and Greeting time, Hike with a Song, Seasonal Circle Time.

Washing Hands, Snack with Blessing, Clean up, Free Play.

Organized Activity/Craft, Set up for Lunch with Helpers.

Washing Hands, Lunch with Blessing, Story and Rest Listening to the Sounds of Nature, Hike back. 

Most forest schools will change their location from day to day or week to week. The basis of the Waldorf EC program is the 3 R’s, Rhythm, Routine, and Reverence. East Bay Forest School keeps consistency by returning to the same location each day and each week. Within our forest home, the children are able to develop a sense of trust, comfort, confidence, and feel safe, as they get to know this particular setting very well. Together, with the children, we have created and continue to create special spaces within the forest, using the resources found within the forest. We have a “dining nest”, a crafting and shelter teepee, a redwood circle room, and a special gnome house we go to visit from time to time. With all of these special spaces we have created, we are able to move between them throughout the day for each portion of our school rhythm. These spaces give some form to the structure of the day and are spaces in which the child may feel held. 

We also uphold a rhythmical structure to our days, weeks, and months. Our daily rhythm remains consistent with a little flexibility and wiggle room for honoring what is needed in each particular moment.  Each day of the week has its defining elements, such as the food we eat, the children who attend that day, as well as the way in which the story is told that day.  The months are distinguished by seasonal songs, verses, stories, and festivals that we honor. We strive to steep the senses within the changing world around us as we pass through the cyclical rhythms of nature itself. 

We go to school in the rain!!! Prepare to gear your children up in rain suits and rain boots with warm layers underneath and pack a change of clothes and socks! The children love to get muddy and splash in puddles. We also have a dry space to take shelter, by tarping our teepee both above it and below it.