A completely outdoor preschool designed for children ages 3 to 5, meeting September through May.
2025-26 class schedule 2025-26 calendar
We are offering two classes in 2025-26. Enroll in one or both!
The Attic Learning Community is dedicated to supporting learners as individuals in all areas of growth and development; therefore, please reach out to us if you have a younger or older child who would benefit from this program.
At Field & Forest Outdoor Preschool, we cultivate a safe space, both physically and emotionally, where children foster connections and construct knowledge. We support whole-child development through exploration and play. Our learners develop self-awareness, as well as self-regulation and social skills; they engage in authentic imagination play, and build strength, balance, and coordination. Their time outdoors promotes concentration, autonomy, and connection to the natural world.
Our beautiful 5-acre campus provides a dynamic, hands-on educational environment where the land becomes an engaging classroom with abundant tools, materials, and lessons for personal and academic growth. Nature decorates the classroom, children's ideas and energy guide us in our engagement, and we support the expression of their innate curiosity and creativity with lots of building, creating, imagining, and exploration of natural elements.
Typical Day
At drop off, children are warmly welcomed and prompted to engage with each other and other living beings, like the tall Fir trees that create the ring where we greet one another, or the crows 'caw-cawing' overhead. Learners are supported in saying goodbye to parents or caregivers and transitioning into play. Sometimes, they may be offered a seasonally-relevant provocation, based on the materials nature provides.
Once all basic needs are addressed and everyone is integrated into the group and space, learners are invited to check in with their individual needs regarding creativity, movement, and curiosity. Based on their interests, we collaboratively decide which of our play & learning spaces will best meet everyone's needs. Adventures offer opportunities for leadership and teamwork, and often include exploration through our forested ravine and meadow, community games, and deep, authentic imagination play. Children trek, dig, climb, splash, build, imagine, sing, dance, wonder, and explore. Teachers use constructivist, developmentally appropriate methods to follow children's interests, imaginations, and investigative work within a supportive community, documenting their learning, growth, and development.
We pause for a snack and story-time, as well as reflection. Once refueled, it's time for a more unstructured play. Children do what makes sense to them, often playing and working in small groups that form spontaneously. Teachers may offer prompts and provocations, or tools for expanded investigation and learning, always in support of learners' interests.
The day ends with reflection and gratitude, before we return to the stand of Fir trees that greeted us, where children are reunited with their families, joyful, invigorated... and, sometimes, a little tired, too.
Field & Forest parents and caregivers are welcome to attend optional parent support meetings led by both Nicole Corbo, Director of Field & Forest, and other leaders in the field of Early Learning. Parents find connection, support, and a chance to have fun while learning together. Further support can be arranged with Lyn Dillman, M.A., Parent Coach & Educator. For more information about Lyn Dillman, click on the link below.
Field & Forest staffs our classes on a 6 to 1, student to teacher ratio. To learn more about our outstanding teachers, click below.