NC Nature + Nurture

10/30/2025

Halloween fun!!

10/30/2025

Spending time in a forest has incredible health benefits such as a boost immunity, mood, and physical + mental health…it also inspires awe.

When something inspires reverence or amazement, it strengthens our ability for deep social connections, expands cognitive function, drives our curiosity, and expands feelings of joy and gratitude.

All of these things lead to a compounded increase in both physical and mental health. This is truly the foundation we should be concerned about giving to our incredible tiny humans.

There will be plenty of time to memorize, read, write, and learn all of the other incredibly important things. We do not need to rush them into it.

Let’s return awe and curiosity to our kids. Encourage them to think and feel for themselves. To learn how to connect with a tribe. How to be a part of a village.

Let’s change how we view early childhood education.

Join the outdoor revolution. Join our tribe.

10/30/2025

Week 2 of our morning tea tradition.

We are absolutely in love with the beautiful connections this warm tea ritual brings to our group each morning.

We open each day with morning FreePlay. This is also when we have our tea time. When the tea is ready, abut 15 minutes after arriving, we make the announcement and the group comes running!

This offers a brief pause in our (sometimes already very wild) morning for conversation, giggles, and group connection.

We talk about the different flavors we have tried, the students talk to each other about whatever comes up…. It’s so simple. It’s so beautiful.

Creating different traditions for our group to enjoy for each season helps foster a natural joy + excitement for each season. Something new each season. Something fun and different.

This is incredible for their connection with nature, but also an incredible life scale. Everything is in constant change. You can always find something to look forward to through each season of change. 💕

10/29/2025

10/28/2025

10/28/2025

This (puking) pumpkin was the star of this rainy day!

Everyone enjoyed filling it with water and watching the contents pour out! 😆

We are constantly blown away by the resilience of the kids in all weather. Today was the coldest day that we have had, and the rain was steady. No one minded this cold rainy fall day at all… In fact it seemed to have sparked a massive amount of energy and giggles!

10/27/2025

Pumpkin carving time for my family this weekend!

❤️

10/24/2025

Social + emotional learning. Physical development. Resilience. Confidence. Nervous system regulation.

This is life readiness.

Join us in our adventures. “It’s time to make childhood an adventure again”

10/24/2025

Each day our incredible group of explorers understands more and more about the natural world all around us, and becomes a little bit more brave with the critters we come across.

From an evolutionary perspective, understanding things reduces anxiety and fear surrounding it, which creates familiarity + comfort, which becomes acceptance.

It is my experience that, in general, people are pretty freaked out by spiders. (I used to have a pretty intense case of arachnophobia myself!) But understanding these amazing creatures and learning about them has created a massive shift in how these incredible kids view them, and interact with them.

This was a very brave and big day!

10/21/2025

It’s skeleton week!

The spooky season we are focusing in on some of the things that are commonly associated with Halloween decorations! Last week was bats, this week it’s skeletons!

We are learning all about the skeletons under our skin, what they look like, what they are for, and looking at them from the outside!

10/21/2025

10/17/2025

“The natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest.”