Bay Area Home School
Top 4 reasons to join TrackersKIDS Home School
1) Convenient locations in Berkeley, Fairfax and Mill Valley
Within minutes of many Bay Area neighborhoods, utilizing some of the most spectacular natural areas and waterways!
2) We do more and have real adventures!
Compare the goals of our days with any other program out there. Students do more than go on hikes and play games. They get outside PLUS go boating, train archery, harvest and preserve wild foods, start their own business and much more.
3) Smaller group sizes
We have an average of 15% smaller group sizes than industry standard. Its more safe and more fun.
4) A child's competency is respected
We believe children are capable of so much more than our modern culture asks of them. We raise the bar of accomplishment and team leadership while gently guiding them to connect to the natural world.
Upcoming 2010 Home School courses
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2010 Home School Schedule
Winter
Berkeley Preschool Forest Foxes
Let's build our connections to nature as we explore the wilderness and discover the plants and animals within it. Our voices will join together as we sing our gratitude to the earth and our creativity will be piqued as we build shelters and make crafts. We will hear the stories of those that lived on the land before us and practice our scout skills as we play games in the forest. With our low 1:5 ratio of instructors to kids, there will be plenty of opportunity to nurture each one of our curiosities as we tramp through forests, and meadows in all weather conditions.
Ages 4-6 $350, Jan 11, 2010-Mar 15, 2010 Mondays 9:30am-1pm
Ages 4-6 $350, February 3-April 7, 2010 Wednesdays 10am-1:30pm
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Berkeley Outdoor Explorers
This program is designed to give students a holistic understanding of the natural world and our place as human within it. By presenting students with a broad range of concepts and skills, it is our goal that students gain confidence, camaraderie, self reliance, and a strong connection to nature.
Ages 7-10 $450, January 18-March 15, 2010 Mondays, 9-weeks 9:30am-3:30pm
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Fairfax Winter-Spring Session Dirt Time
For most of human history, hunter-gatherer cultures raised their children competently, aware of their roles, and aware with their senses. Spending nearly every moment out-of-doors they were completely connected to nature through their lives and livelihoods. Dirt Time moves beyond conventional schooling and returns to this timeless way of learning that is both collaborative and rich in experience.
Ages 6-8 $810, Jan 25-June 7, 2010 Mondays with Holiday Breaks 9am-3pm
Ages 9-12 $810, Jan 25-June 7, 2010 Mondays with Holiday Breaks 9am-3pm
Ages 13-15 $810, Jan 25-June 7, 2010 Mondays with Holiday Breaks 9am-3pm
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Mill Valley Coyote's PATH
On this P.A.T.H., students explore Permaculture, Awareness, Tracking, and Healing. Learn from the wisdom of nature, bring this knowledge into our backyards while conserving and restoring wild habitats. Our intention is to create opportunity to bring healing to the land by becoming ecologically literate and developing a deep sense of place.
Ages Adult $560, January 15-May 7, 2010 10am-2pm
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Berkeley Scout Team Marine
Scout Team Marine will educate and push teens in the time-honored classroom of the woods and the bay with intensive wilderness awareness skills and practical maritime skills. Students will work as a team to make decisions, complete projects and overcome obstacles. These team skills will be honed and put to the test in live action strategy games throughout the course.
Ages 11-16 $390, Feb 19, 2010-Mar 26, 2010 Fridays 9:30am-3:30pm
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Spring
Berkeley Preschool Forest Foxes
Let's build our connections to nature as we explore the wilderness and discover the plants and animals within it. Our voices will join together as we sing our gratitude to the earth and our creativity will be piqued as we build shelters and make crafts. We will hear the stories of those that lived on the land before us and practice our scout skills as we play games in the forest. With our low 1:5 ratio of instructors to kids, there will be plenty of opportunity to nurture each one of our curiosities as we tramp through forests, and meadows in all weather conditions.
Ages 4-6 $350, March 29-June 7, 2010 Mondays 9:30am-1pm
Ages 4-6 $315, April 14-June 9, 2010 Wednesdays 10am-1:30pm
More details & online registration
Berkeley Outdoor Explorers
This program is designed to give students a holistic understanding of the natural world and our place as human within it. By presenting students with a broad range of concepts and skills, it is our goal that students gain confidence, camaraderie, self reliance, and a strong connection to nature.
Ages 7-10 $500, March 29-June 7, 2010 Mondays, 10-weeks 9:30am-3:30pm
More details & online registration
Berkeley Scout Team Marine
Scout Team Marine will educate and push teens in the time-honored classroom of the woods and the bay with intensive wilderness awareness skills and practical maritime skills. Students will work as a team to make decisions, complete projects and overcome obstacles. These team skills will be honed and put to the test in live action strategy games throughout the course.
We help children to feel like that group of kids wandering country backyards 50 years ago: independent, tired, muddy, wet and happy from the woods and wild. We are acutely aware of full and real hazards of the out of doors after years of working in environmental education. We try to move away from the highly structured and limiting tolerances of conventional environmental education while keeping kids truly safe but not encapsulated from, or phobic of nature. We are deep patriots to the value of offering guided yet very free and transparent experiences for kids. We believe it is okay to be thirsty at times, cold at times, and wet at times. It builds empathy and care for the gifts of life. It fosters adventure and sincere accomplishment. We also believe it is critical to feel supported and cared for as they truly explore their passion and responsibility. And through a healthy life immersed in nature, they test the limits and great potential of the often untapped physical and emotional resiliency they possess.
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