Hands-On Egypt Fun!
On our day to study Egypt, we first listened to our audiobook, then tried on a pharaoh double crown from the pharaoh that united the upper and lower kingdoms of ancient Egypt. Later we used an ancient Egyptian way of…
Dragon Boxes for Dragon Bucks and Gems
The Kingsburg TK-2/3 Group voted last month to call themselves the Dragons. They have since decided that their currency will be called Dragon Bucks and they even voted on a student-created design for the bucks! They have also made their…
Science at Wild Hearts Visalia
We have done many science experiments and projects at Wild Hearts Visalia in September! We did a couple of engineering projects, a project about digestion and growing plants where we got to plant our own seeds and a fun invisible…
History and Clay
On Thursday we listened to our audiobook while getting to try our hand at working with clay!
Nailed It! Challenge
Several of the learners at Wild Hearts Visalia decided to start up a Nailed It! Challenge. They voted to try to create a unicorn cake. Adaley volunteered to guide the younger learners and create a sample cake for the learners…
ELA Option – A Story
One of the ELA options for learners is to have a story read to them. This helps them learn from hearing a story read aloud with prosody (correctly paced reading with intonation) and can also expose them to many new…
September Field Trips!
These are some photos from our field trips. I am tagging everyone so that you might want to join us if you haven't already. These photos are from our hike to Moro Rock and our trip to Organic Pastures Dairy.…
Building Community at Wild Hearts Visalia
There are lots of ways we build our sense of community in our studios and as a group. Each studio group creates its own studio name and comes up with its own currency that they earn as they do their…
Science at Wild Hearts – Food Chain, Digestion, and Chemical Change
We had a great time studying digestion and the food chain one week. The next we studied chemical change and got to try it out ourselves with a baking soda solution mixed with berry juice from blackberries. The invisible baking…