City Garden School

We’re so excited to rock these shirts around town! Beautiful design by talented parent, Emily Starke! Information on how to order coming soon!

What we’ve been working on!

Outdoor middle school enrichment! These are some tough middle schoolersthey made biscuits over the fire, played in the snow, and enjoyed the bitter cold Missouri morning. What lucky kids!!

We have ONE spot open tomorrow evening from 5:10-5:30! Please email [email protected] for info on how to reserve a spot!

Fulfilling Outdoor Friday’screek play, warming cold feet by the fires, what childhood should be made of!!

We’re hosting an outdoor craft fair in early December! Follow the event to get updates!!

Aftercare alchemy! Today we made our own charcoal pencils for drawing. We selected our sticks, wrapped them in several layers of foil and made small slits in the top, and then set them directly in the fire. The slits allow the natural compounds in the wood to "boil" off without letting enough oxygen into the packet to set the sticks on fire. After about 45 minutes, we removed the packets and let them cool. We were amazed at how different our sticks now looked! Then we had fun making our own charcoal drawings.

Our middle schoolers made and decorated this beautiful massive wreath!

Outdoor school was quite the adventure this week!

Outdoor school in snow realities... beautiful snow covered fall trees and a whole mess of wet and extra clothes. We have the best teachers ever!!!!!!!

We love having school at Camp Takimina!! Look at this beautiful sign!!

From our amazing aftercare teacher! We stayed warm at aftercare today by making pine needle tea on the campfire! We learned how to differentiate between types of evergreens, and the kids used this information to find a pine tree amongst the many, many cedars. Then we used a field guide to compare the needles and pine cones of the tree to narrow it down to Eastern White Pine. Pine needles also contain loads of immune boosting vitamin C, making it especially great to drink this time of year!

We have 3 openings in our second grade class. We meet 5 days a week, completely outdoors! Email [email protected] to set up a tour!

A few #ownvoices books to add to our library at school. #indigenouspeoplesday

Building fire pits and learning outdoors.

City Garden outdoor learnersfirst through eight grade!

Autumn at school!