*schedule subject to change – Printable version here: MNS-2018-Schedule2
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Friday September 14th, 2018
8-9:15 am Bock Centre Registration & Check-in
(Time to make your wood cookie name tag!)
9:15-10:15 am Keynote Speaker: Gillian Judson
10:15-10:30 am Transition to Workshops (coffee, tea, juice & fruit available)
10:30 am – 12:00/12:30 pm Workshop A (meet at main lodge fire pit)
- #getoutside: Resources For Cross-Curricular, Place-Based Learning
- Take it Outside! Integrating Literacy and Nature
- What’s in your backpack? Bringing the Six Categories of Risky Play Indoors: Part 1
- Preparing for the Seasons with Intention: Part 1
- A Fireside Chat About Outdoor Play Regulations
- Back to Nature ~ A Green Kids Out-Of- Your-Classroom Experience
- Gentle Yoga:The connection to nature and our bodies
11:00-1:30 Resource Fair in the Gym/Bock Centre. Visit these vendors who are from child/nature friendly orgs and who sell child/nature friendly products. This is the only time for the resource fair so don’t miss it!
12:00- 1:30 pm Lunch (Lunchtime will vary depending on your workshop. Lunches will be a bag lunch so you can network and picnic or take your lunch to your sit spot- so long as you don’t litter!)
1:30-3:30 pm Workshop B (meet at main lodge fire pit)
- Nature Playbook: Take action to connect a new generation of Canadians with Nature
- Take it Outside! Integrating Literacy and Nature
- What’s in your backpack? Bringing the Six Categories of Risky Play Indoors: Part 2
- Preparing for the Seasons with Intention: Part 2
- Sensational Little Learners
- Whittling a Diamond Willow Walking Stick
- Tool Use With Children
- The Geography of Childhood
3:30-5:30 pm Activity Time
Visit the Activity Time page for more information!
6:00 pm Dinner
6:45-7:30 The first Canadian screening of Nature Matters Film in the Gym/Bock Centre!!
7:45-8:30 Storytelling with Jamie Oliviero around the campfire!
After dark Singing around the campfire/ Night Hike with Maddi *These activities are informal and free flow.
Saturday September 15th, 2018
8:00-9:15 am Breakfast
9:15-10:15 am Keynote Address: Chloe Dragon Smith with Brenda Dragon Smith & Jane Dragon
10:30 am-Noon Workshop C (meet at main lodge fire pit)
- Tool Use With Children
- Emergent Curriculum: Finding Wonder and Joy in the Natural World
- Back to Nature ~ A Green Kids Out-Of- Your-Classroom Experience
- An Introduction to Forest School- Part 1
- Let’s Let the Children Play! Music & Mindfulness for Outdoor Play
- What’s in your backpack? Bringing the Six Categories of Risky Play Indoors
- Forest Forts
Noon-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30-3:30 pm Workshop D (meet at main lodge fire pit)
- Mini Woodland Homes and Treehouses
- Communicating with Nature
- Healing the Caregiver through the Power of Art
- An Introduction to Forest School- Part 2
- The Geography of Childhood
- Emergent Curriculum: Finding Wonder and Joy in the Natural World
- Taking the Indoors out with a Well Packed Wagon
3:30 pm Silent Auction Prize Winners (posted by swag table)
3:30-5:30 pm Activity Time-Visit the Activity Time page for more information!
6:00 pm Dinner
6:45-7:30 The first Canadian screening of Nature Matters Film in the Gym/Bock Centre!!
7:45 pm – Drumming around the Campfire with Heather at the God’s Cathedral Fire Pit
After dark Singing around the campfire/ Night Hike with Maddi *These activities are informal and free flow.
Sunday, September 16th, 2018
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast
9:00-10:00 am Cabin Clean-up
10:00-11:30 am Closing Circle with Elder Florence Paynter
11:30-Noon Closing/farewell/send off to 2020
See you next time!!!!!