Homesteading
How can our home and school environments, both indoors and outside, reflect our innermost creativity and uniqueness? In this class, we will explore what it means to be an active participant in our home and school environments through crafting, creating, moving, and making. Students engage in projects such as bookbinding, drying herbs grown in the school garden, foraging, identifying plants, building structures out of materials found in the surrounding woods, sewing and weaving, and much more.
Taught and created Miranda Wiley, our Homesteading class at the Elementary level focuses on the completion of a project, from the intial idea to the finished product. Elementary students go through each step of the process: the initial project proposal, planning, visualizing, and finally, the execution. Centered around the outdoors, students not only practice and develop on their executive functioning skills, but also learn how to manipulate materials found purely and sustainably in nature.