August 2019

News From

The Moon's Nest Playschool,

our unschooling/wildschooling cooperative based in Portland, Or 

Note from Playschool Teacher Claire 

Happy August Moon's Nest families! We've been spending summer playschool days picking berries, splashing around in the water

(and giving some to our thirsty plant friends!),

smelling all the summer smells (mint, roses, sage, basil...), 

and making ephemeral bits of art to leave in our favorite neighborhood spots.

Your amazing kiddos have been teaching me so much about the magic of play; more and more I'm realizing that play, especially when it's embedded in the land, is all about sovereignty and magic, and that wild imagination is essential to social change. I love watching them transform trees into houses, bikes into fire trucks, and their own bodies into dog-bears and dragons.

What better way to fully inhabit their own agency and explore the

power they have to change the world around them?

I love watching them exercise their right to self-determination and choice, spending their hours as they want to spend them, and learning so much about relationships, consent, justice, story,and the natural world along the way. 

What lovelier path towards full appreciation of the importance of sovereignty for all bodies, communities, and nations--and even the land itself?

So grateful to be tending the seeds of revolution and transformation alongside all of you, and so grateful to Miz Flow for creating this magical container!

Warmly,

Claire

Enrollment for our 2019-2020 Playschool Year

Please do join us this fall as we begin our 4th year together as a playschool community!

If you've already sent in yer re-enrollment form, thanks a bunch. We are so very thankful and humbled by your family's continued trust in us to help shape your child's development, and fer yer continuing investment in our playschool community.

If'n ya haven't got yer re-enrollment form in yet and plan on joining us in the Fall,

do get on it! Please be mindful that I need all folks intending to continue on with us for 2019-2020 to fill out this enrollment form, even tho ya be a returning family.

If yer family is new to the Moon's Nest and is looking to join us for yer first year, this be the form to use to let us know. Once I receive yer Enrollment Inquiry, I'll follow up with an email and an invite to join us fer a playschool visit. At that point, if it's a good fit, I'll send you the registration forms. Once I get those back, yer enrollment fer 2019-2020 will be confirmed, provided we have an available opening. 

Sign up fer yer August Playschool Shift

Hey there playschool folks!

This went out via email last week, but just in case ya missed it...

Here be the August sign up sheet fer Moon's Nest Coop parents to self schedule their August playschool assistant shift(s). Please do check yer calendars and get yerself scheduled fer yer monthly shift(s) as soon as you be able.  

News From

The Moon's Nest School of Magic, Mischief, n' Mystery

Upcoming Offerings

Portland Town Field Study with Miz Flow

Thursday August 15th @ Elk Rock Island

11am~3pm

On Thursday August 15th, join Miz Flow fer a day of magic, mischief, n mystery alongside the Willamette River. We'll spend the day lost in play with my most favored element of magic; water.  While the primary focus of the day will be invoking the spirit of play and curiosity, we'll also spend the day testing our creature tracking and tree climbing skills, while ending our time together with a water blessing ritual.

Logistics 

Plan to rendezvous at the trail head playground fer drop off n pick up.

Please do send yer witchlet with plenty of water, food, and weather appropriate clothing.

Cost 

Sliding Scale of $35 ~ $50

To register fer this Portland Town Field Study, please send an email to moonsnestplayschool@gmail.com to let me know you'll be joining us, as well as confirm a spot fer yer witchlet by sending in yer monetary contribution via paypal. 

2019 Northwest Permaculture Convergence Kids Programming 

with Miz Flow & Magic Man Kaan

September 27-29, 2019
Lost Valley Education Center, Dexter, OR

The Moon’s Nest School of Magic, Mischief & Mystery is pleased to be partnered with the 2019 Northwest Permaculture Convergence to offer adventure, play, and connection to the littles of this annual gathering. Our programming aims to provide support to the families of the NWPCC community while engaging children in ceremony, ritual, play, learning, and story. It is important to our team that the children and families who gather with us feel centered and supported throughout the gathering. 

In this first year of facilitating the children’s programming for NWPCC, we hope to form meaningful memories, relationships, and traditions that will inspire us throughout the year and bring us back to each other in the next. We are SO excited to start this work, and to cultivate magical experiences for the children of the nw permaculture community and their families.We do hope that you will join us this year as we cast our circle of connecting, playing, and learning together!

**I am offering a limited number of spaces fer Moon's Nest witchlets who would like to join me fer NWPCC independent from their parents. All meals and programming included. Sliding scale of $150 ~ $250. Please send an email to moonsnestplayschool@gmail.com to arrange fer yer withclet to independently join me at this camp.**  

From the NWPCC website : 

"The Northwest Permaculture Convergence is a conference. There are presentations, plenary sessions, unlimited networking, a Marketplace, and lots of fun. It is a unique gathering where individuals and organizations can show and tell what they are doing to help create a more peaceful, green and resilient culture and economy.

The Convergence is a unique place for diverse groups and people to come together to mix, mingle, network, and cross pollinate. We are all on the same team! And we need to focus on practical actions in the real world.
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Who will be interested?

Students, urban gardeners, city planners, eco-village enthusiasts, neighborhood leaders, preparedness people, business persons, faith communities, seniors and young people, home school families and educators of all types."

Follow Our Days on Social Media

Liking and following our social media pages is a great way to keep up on the

work, play, and learning of our playschool days.

You can find Teacher Claire and Miz Flow on Instagram sharing sweet moments and practices, as well as real time playschool updates. And, please do feel free to share our posts using the hashtag #moonsnestplayschool 

We also have our very own YouTube channel where you can get lost in all the adorable video journal moments from our days.

Go find & follow us!

That's it for this month friends! 

May our days together be full

of play, adventure, and connection.