Forest school · Bend, Oregon
Wildwood Nature School keeps children outdoors for the whole session — outdoor preschool, forest kindergarten, homeschool enrichment, family nature programs and summer camp on woodland ground outside Bend.
Outdoor preschool
Forest kindergarten
Homeschool enrichment
Family nature programs
Summer camp
Programs
Five programs share one stretch of woodland. Start where your family is; the ring widens from there.
Whole days outside, drop-off to pick-up, in rain, mud, moss and sun.
The kindergarten year with the trees as the classroom, paced by the season rather than the clock.
One woodland day each week that sits alongside learning at home.
Grown-ups and children in the same circle, learning the place side by side — the easiest first ring to step into.
Long light, warm dirt, and days that begin at the creek and end somewhere in the ferns.
Membership
Joining Wildwood holds a place in the woodland across the seasons — and holds a place open for another family at the same time.
Family nature programs run through the year and are the gentlest way in. Watch a session in motion before you decide anything.
Outdoor preschool, forest kindergarten, homeschool enrichment, family nature programs or summer camp.
A child who returns year after year is the whole idea. The longer the stay, the wider the ring grows.
Scholarships
Some families in Bend cannot yet say yes to a season outdoors. Scholarship rings are how the circle widens — pooled gifts that become places in the woods.
A child and a grown-up in the same circle, with tuition for the season covered.
Whole days outdoors, from drop-off to pick-up, for a family who could not otherwise say yes.
A full year in the woods at the pace of the season, from the first frost to the last.
Every gift, whatever its size, joins the same fund.
Visit
Start with a family nature program, or ask about a place in outdoor preschool, forest kindergarten, homeschool enrichment or summer camp. The woods will do the rest.