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08/05/2025

🐝 We Need Beeswax! 🐝

Our Forest School is buzzing with activity—and we need your help!

We're currently on the lookout for natural beeswax for some of our upcoming Forest School projects 🕯️🌿 From candle-making and nature crafts to waterproofing our wooden tools, beeswax is a key ingredient in helping our learners connect with the natural world in hands-on, meaningful ways.

If you’re a local beekeeper, have extra beeswax at home, or know someone who might be able to help—please reach out!

Every little bit makes a big difference for our curious, creative learners 🐛🌲

📍 Drop-offs can be made at The Country Learning Centre
📩 Or message us directly for more info

Thank you for supporting outdoor education and the magic of Forest School! 💚

08/03/2025

🌳 Nature is the Classroom 🌿

Climbing roots, navigating mud, balancing on branches — these kids aren’t just playing. They’re building confidence, resilience, teamwork, and problem-solving skills, all while immersed in the natural world.

This is forest school in action: child-led, curiosity-fueled, and deeply rooted in nature.

Here, every stick becomes a tool, every climb a challenge, and every muddy moment a memory. 🍃

✨ Let them explore. ✨ Let them get messy. ✨ Let them grow wild.

08/02/2025

🍂 Nature’s Lacework 🍂

This beautifully decayed leaf caught my eye today — a gentle reminder that even in decay, there's elegance and quiet resilience. Each delicate vein is like nature’s own embroidery, telling a story of time, change, and transformation. 🌿✨

Sometimes beauty shows up in the most unexpected ways — you just have to slow down and look closer.

07/17/2025

07/15/2025

Imagine a classroom under the open sky! ☀️

The Country Learning Centre is seeking a Registered Early Childhood Educator to bring their expertise to our magical outdoor preschool.

This is more than just a job; it's an opportunity to nurture young minds (ages 2-5) year-round in nature, starting this September. We're offering maternity coverage with the potential for a permanent role.

If you're an RECE who thrives on connection, exploration, and empowering children through nature-based learning, we encourage you to apply!

Send your application to admin@countrylearningcentre.ca and become part of our inspiring team.

07/12/2025

🚨 They’re Back… and Wreaking Havoc! 🪲

Japanese Beetles have returned and are munching their way through our gardens—again. But don’t worry, we’ve got tips to help you fight back! 💪🌿

👉 Learn how to spot them, the damage they cause, and the most effective ways to protect your plants in our latest article:

www.canadale.ca/japanese-beetles-theyre-back/

Let’s defend our gardens—one beetle at a time! 🐞💚

07/08/2025

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07/08/2025

07/05/2025

It takes a village ❤️

Dear stranger who disciplined my kiddo at the playground today,

Woah woah woah, lemme get this straight. So today your daughter was trying to do the monkey bars? Okay, got it. And my kid was trying to do the monkey bars too? Simple enough. But since your kiddo is new to the monkey bars and takes forever and sometimes gets scared and stops right in the middle, my son had no choice but to go past her and sometimes bump her a little and she would fall and be all sensitive and start crying? Hmmm. Alrighty then.

Now before I continue, I just want to say that yes, I know I should have been there when this all went down, but unfortunately I was on the other side of the playground with my son’s friend who was crying. So no, I wasn’t there, but does that give you a right to discipline my kiddo? Does that give you the right to talk to him sternly and tell him to knock it off? Does that give you the right to act like you are the person in charge when he is actually MY child?

Ummmm, yes. YES IT DOES.

I didn’t get the chance to say this today, but THANK YOU. Because if my kid is acting like a douchenugget and I’m not around for whatever reason, you have my permission to tell him to knock it off. I’m not saying you have the right to touch him in any way or yell at him uncontrollably (only I’m allowed to do that), but please feel free to tell him to stop being a jerkwad if he’s not waiting his turn to do the monkey bars. Or if he’s walking up the slide. Or if he’s throwing wood chips. Or if he’s saying bad words. Or being a bully. Or doing anything that he shouldn’t be doing that’s bothering someone else.

Because even if you aren’t his parent, you are the adult. Which means you are smarter than he is. And yeah, I know there are probably a-holes out there who would be all pissy about some stranger getting mad at their kiddo, but not me.

It takes a village. And these days our village might be a little bigger and more spread out and we don’t all sleep in side-by-side huts or ride in covered wagons or gather around the campfire at night and we don’t even all know each other, but we can either choose to have a village or not. And I choose to have a village.

I’m sorry I wasn’t there to do my job, so thank you for helping me do it.

Sincerely,

“That” kid’s mom

~ Karen Alpert

07/04/2025

First day of summer camp 😁

We can't wait to see what everyone finds as treasures today. Will it be from the woods, the meadow, the pond or somewhere else?

Stay tuned for treasure updates. 😎

Spaces still available throughout the summer ~ Mondays, Wednesdays & Thursdays. 9 am - 4 pm

Reach out if you are trying to find something different for the kiddos this summer. 🌞

Info@countrylearningcentre.ca

07/03/2025

Happy Canada Day!!!

Celebrate the spirit of Canada Day by sharing your favourite outdoor activity! Whether it's a hike, a picnic, or simply enjoying nature with family & friends, let us know how you are celebrating the beauty of our great land.

Reminder CLC summer camp programs start Friday July 4, 2025 @ 9:00 am.