Enrolling for Friday Mornings

Our preschool program is just about full. 

We are still enrolling for Friday mornings.

Spread the word!  Do you know someone who would like to send their child for just one day a week, 8/8:30 - 12:30?  This would be a great way to ease into a nurturing preschool program while helping your child connect to the natural world.  Our morning together will be filled with play, walks, puppet shows, songs, healthy food, joy, and wonder.  For ages 3-6.

Contact me to learn more!

FREE Parent-Child Nature Group

 

We have a FREE Parent-Child Nature Group coming up on:

Friday, August 16th from 10-11:30 am.



For children ages 0-6 with a parent or caregiver.

Join us to play, walk, enjoy a puppet show, and share in the joy that the natural world brings us!

This is our last planned nature group as our preschool program will be starting soon. (Our group last Friday was postponed due to the weather). 

RSVP to Libra510@aol.com or call Laura at 802-888-1979

Hope to see you!

FREE Parent-Child Nature Group

We have a FREE Parent-Child Nature Group coming up on:

Friday, August 9th from 10-11:30 am. 



For children ages 0-6 with a parent or caregiver. 

Join us to play, walk, enjoy a puppet show, and share in the joy that the natural world brings us! 

This is our last planned nature group as our preschool program will be starting soon. 

RSVP to Libra510@aol.com or call Laura at 802-888-1979

Hope to see you!

Enrollment is wrapping up!

We are working on wrapping up enrollment for summer camp and preschool.  Contact us soon if you are interested in a place for your child.  We have two 2-day spots or a 4 day spot left for preschool and certain days and weeks of summer camp are full or filling up.  Contact us to learn more, arrange a visit, and please continue to spread the word about our nature based programs.  Thank you!!

The gardens have been planted with veggies, herbs, and flowers and are looking great.  Paths have been mowed through the meadow and work continues to progress to prepare to welcome a group of nature loving young children!  We are so excited.

Open House

The open house at Little Birch has been rescheduled from this Saturday to

Friday, May 31^st from 4 – 6 pm

Come to our open house later in May and bring your child to play in our inside and outside space, meet our teacher, and have the opportunity to learn more and ask questions about our preschool and summer camp programs. 

Drop-in to play anytime between 4-6; we will have a puppet show at 5:00 if you would like to be there for that. 

Please RSVP if you can make it

Or …

Let me know if this new date does not work and you’d like to come by another time.  If you are waiting to see our space and/or meet our teacher before you enroll and you are eager to do so, I will still be around this weekend and next getting work done if you’d like to stop by to see the progress.  Contact me to make a plan to come by. 

Thanks so much and we can’t wait to see you!!

Laura and Moqui

 

888-1979

http://www.vtforestschool.blogspot.com

http://www.facebook.com/littlebirchvermont

 

NOW ENROLLING

We are NOW ENROLLING for Little Birch Summer Camp and Little Birch Nature Preschool!!  Explore the tabs to the right for more details and let me know if you would like an application. 

Nature Group This Friday 4/12 POSTPONED until next Friday, 4/19

Regarding Friday's Parent/Child Nature Group:

I have been checking on Friday's weather forecast and it doesn't look very pleasant. This comes from someone who is often quite happy to wear a full rainsuit and spend time in the protected canopy of the forest! It looks like the temp will be in the 30's hovering around the sleet/rain line with 100% chance of precip. Possibly not so much fun no matter what you are wearing!

I would like to cancel this week (4/12, which would be our last week of the 6 week session) and instead meet the following Friday, April 19th.

 

April Showers Bring May Flowers!

 

See you soon!

 

Laura 

 

Moving Day is Coming Soon...

It looks like we have indeed found our home and property for our Little Birch Nature Preschool!  We are currently waiting to sign the paperwork and should start moving in April 1st.  It is a three bedroom home on 40 acres, across the street from a dairy farm.  The inside classroom space will be in the open living room/kitchen area that has two sliding glass doors looking out at the farm and Worcester Mountains and also leading onto a deck that could extend the classroom space in nice weather.    

I just got off the phone with the sweet-as-pie owner of the place and he asked what color we wanted the walls painted as he and his wife were on the way to the paint store.  We will all be very busy in the next few weeks and months painting the inside and out and getting this sweet home ready to welcome a happy group of young children.  I especially can't wait to transform the yard into a natural play area and further explore the meadows and forest.   We will likely have a community work day on a weekend in May and also an open house on another day that month.                        

 

While I will wait to announce the exact address until everything is "official" I will say that it is in Morrisville, Vermont, not far from the Green Top Market.  It is nicely centrally located in Lamoille County. 

Distance to village centers of:

Morrisville: 3 miles, 8 minutes

Stowe:  11 miles, 20 minutes

Johnson:  6 miles, 15 minutes

Hyde Park: 4.5 miles, 10 minutes

 

If you would like to help us get started in any way you can have a look at our “wish list” on the tab to the right.  There is a link to our online "wishpot" as well. 

 

We really appreciate all of the community support and interest.  Spread the word!  Enrolling soon! 

Friday Parent-Child Nature Group

We are currently enrolling for our next parent-child nature group session. 
Dates:  Fridays, March 8th to April 12th from 10-11:30. 
See the tab to the right for more information. 
Make sure to RSVP and let me know if you have any questions!
Hope to see you there! 

This session we will likely enjoy the transition from winter to spring.  How fun to spend a day each week in the same natural area, watching with joy as the land is first covered in snow, and notice as the snow melts to make way for the wildflowers and other new life in the forest and meadows. 

Help Little Birch Find a Permanent Home!!

Help LITTLE BIRCH find a permanent home!  We are looking for a home and property to settle down on and house our Nature-based Waldorf-inspired childcare program.  Hope to move in the late spring or early summer in time to run summer programming and then begin our school year program in September.  Please spread the word and help with our search!!  Here is our wish list:

I am planning on starting a small home-based childcare program next school year and am looking for the perfect property.   I am most interested in long-term rentals, but may also be interested in beginning to look at buying this spring/summer or next.  My hope is to have 5-6 children a day in my care ages 3-5.  My partner Phil and I have been renting together for almost 10 years and are very responsible and clean.  We are both educators in the area. 

 

Looking for:

Rental agreement starting in late spring/early summer

2-3 bedrooms, small house/cabin

                                                                                                                                                            

Ample closets, and/or storage space, and/or garage/outbuildings

Nice spacious land with good size yard for garden and play and bordering forest for walking and playing.  Forest can be part of property or just border us with permission to use.

If a rental, permission to put up tidy and temporary fencing as well as a few simple, natural looking play structures such as a sandbox.

We would love a woodstove if possible

We have a very sweet, mellow, well-behaved 5 year old chocolate lab so pets would need to be allowed.

Property preferably in Stowe

We will have our own renters insurance and also liability insurance for the business. 

I would love to hear from you with any questions, comments, or properties that may be in line with what we are looking for.

Thank you very much for your assistance,

Laura Karstensen

Maple Run Lane

Stowe, Vermont

253-5070

Libra510@aol.com

facebook.com/littlebirchvermont