Virginia Homeschool Naturalist - Springfield (Jan 10- June 13)
Description:
The Home School Naturalist Program uses nature observation, awareness and earth based skills to introduce your child to a world of adventure and discovery!
This program focuses on cultivating the existing passions found in children, their natural curiosity and their innate love of nature. We then add layers of hands-on experience in naturalist and wilderness skills including; tree & plant ID, natural fibers, sensory awareness, emergency fire building, lost proofing, wild food gathering and preparation, animal tracking & ID, practical camping skills & more. These skills are the foundation that we build upon as your child advances each season through the many different levels of this program.
This is a 18 week program drop off program with age appropriate activities.
Ages: 7-10 & 11-16 (Participants will split into groups for age appropriate activities. Participants must be of age at start of the program)
Registration fee: 18 weeks $720
Location: Springfield VA
When: Thursday's 10am-3pm once a week for 18 meetings (please refer to our calendar for the exact dates)
- How to register and pay:
- Paying in full With Credit Card - Submit your registration below and submit payment.
- Pay Installments for 18 week program - First submit your registration. Once submitted come back to this page and choose the PayPal installment plan below.
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Register for 4 weeks from Jan 9 - Jan 30th 2019
Register for 7 weeks from Feb 13th - March 27th 2019
Register for 7 weeks from April 10- June 5th 2019
Meet the Staff
Bill Kaczor - Co-Founder/ CEO 2007-Present
Bill is the CEO and co-founder of Ancestral Knowledge. Bill has worked and studied intensively with the masters in the fields of; youth mentoring, naturalist studies, primitive technology and tracking. He has been teaching children and adults in these subjects since 1998 — Bill was a lead instructor at Children of the Earth Foundations- Coyote Tracks summer camps for 5 years, and two years as the assistant director. He has instructed students at the University of Maryland, Georgetown University, Rivercane & Falling Leaves Rendezvous, Mid-Atlantic Primitive Skills Gathering (MAPS Meet), Bill can often be found instructing at Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School teaching primitive traps, bow making, flint knapping, pottery and hide tanning. In 1999 after 11 years, Bill chose to leave his skateboard/snowboard business and dedicate his life to helping people connect with the Earth through ancient skills. Shortly afterwards, Bill designed and was granted an after school and summer program for the 21st Century Learning Community in Public School District 150 of Peoria, Illinois. This program was successful in that it led the children to a respect for nature, respect for themselves and others, self-discipline and adventure. Bill is a specialist in bow making, stone tool technologies, hide tanning, fire by friction and hunting and experienced in many more skills.
Ancestral Knowledge instructors are First Aid / CPR certified, have completed CJIS Criminal Background Checks, and have been checked against the National Sex Offenders Registry
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