Sibyl & Lila; Recent Forest School Friday at Errol Heights Park

March 2020

Sibyl, Lorax, Violet, Mabel; Collaborative tree climbing practice

News From

The Moon's Nest Playschool,

our unschooling/wildschooling cooperative based in Portland, Or 

Hello Moon's Nest families!

It's been so sweet exploring the first signs of spring with your kiddos this month. We've been revisiting our favorite neighborhood haunts, basking in the sun when it shines (and continuing our winter puddle-jumping practice when it doesn't!), painting ourselves with mud, and digging our fingers and toes into sand and soil. We'll be gearing up for our Welcome Spring! celebration on Friday, March 27th (after our Equinox repose), with ritual, crafts, and probably a sweet treat or two--friends and families welcome!

Claire

Violet; Nature treasures found in exploring the soil

Upcoming Dates to Note

Last day of winter term: Wednesday, March 18th

Spring Equinox break: Thursday March 19th- Tuesday March 24th  

Phlox & Flame Witch Camp : March 18-21

Spring Break Field Studies (ages 4+) : March 23-25

First day of spring term: Wednesday, March 25th

Welcome Spring celebration: 3-4pm, Friday, March 27th

Granny Baby Alfonso; Willamette River Play, recent Elk Rock Island Field Study

Spring Equinox Break

The Moon's Nest Playschool will take our annual Spring Equinox Repose to honor the balance of light and welcome the Spring season to our hearts and to the land. Please add it to your calendars! We will be breaking from our usual playschool  schedule from Thursday March 19 to Tuesday March 24th.  There will be no regularly scheduled playschool sessions during those dates! 

However, while playschool is on break, Miz Flow and the Moon's Nest School of Magic, Mischief, & Mystery has plenty of offerings to keep your witchlets engaged in wild Spring season play magic. Join her for the 2nd annual Phlox & Flame Witch Camp, and her Spring Break Field Studies. Read on for all those details. 

Sibyl & Arden ; Sunshiney sibling bliss 

Moon's Nest Forest School Fridays

March Schedule of Rendezvous Locations

March 6th: Westmoreland Park

March 13th: Oak's Bottom Wildlife Refuge

March 20th: Off for Spring Repose

March 27th: Moon's Nest Playschool 

We are currently enrolling for our Forest School Friday program for kiddos ages 4 & up.  Moon's Nest Forest School meets every Friday at rotating natural areas, woodlands, and parks around SE Portland. Monthly tuition is income based and operates on a wide and inclusive sliding scale of

$150-$450/ mo. 

We also offer drop in spots fer Forest School Fridays fer kiddos ages 4+  

Drop in cost : $50/day

*Weather appropriate gear and ability to be

comfortable outdoors in all varieties of weather required*

Please send an email to moonsnestplayschool@gmail.com to inquire about enrollment in our Forest School Friday program, or to inquire about scheduling a drop in visit with us on an upcoming Forest School Day! 

Love Day Celebrations @ Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden 

Archer & Granny baby Alfonso ; Sand box play @ Brentwood Darlington Park

Amos; sand box play at Brentwood Darlington Park

News From

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

 roving, camping, and exploring Portland and beyond

Moon's Nest lantern paper lantern making workshop @ Kindle Cascadia 2019

Did ya know!

In addition to our Portland based Monday-Friday playschool program,

the Moon's Nest also offers child and family centered camp programming. 

The Moon's Nest School of Magic. Mischief, & Mystery offers nature based, magically infused, gender affirming programming for a variety of multi day camps and gatherings in Oregon and Washington. Some of these camps are small and are organized by the Moon's Nest, and others we are contracted with to organize kids programming for larger camps and gatherings. 

Our camp programming is an immersion into the sound, smells, and sights of the season. We delve into the natural world, learn how to harvest and wild craft with ritual and ceremony, and give something back in return. We also leave lots of room for play and getting up to all kinds of mischief. And of course, there's the infamous magic shows from Mountain Man Magic. 

If you've got a camp or gathering coming up and are looking

for a high quality kids program coordinator, send us an email. 

We're currently booking for Washington and Oregon locations.

Upcoming Offerings

Lorax, Ruby, Emma ; Phlox & Flame 2019

Phlox & Flame 2020

 ~ March 18th - 21st ~

@ Aprovecho Research Center

  Cottage Grove, Or

Invitation & Call

Come witchlets!

Come gather in honor of the Spring Equinox. Come gather with us we give last rites to Winter and welcome Spring to the land and to our hearts. Weave with us the magic that will wake our green blooded kin from their Winter repose.  Come feast and craft beside the wood stove. Come work and learn with the elements of earth, water, fire, and air. Come sprinkle the soils of the forests with the seeds of your play magic.

Come, and gather.

xoxo, Miz Flow

*~*~*~*

The Moon's Nest School of Magic, Mischief, & Mystery is pleased to offer the 2nd annual Phlox & Flame!  Phlox & Flame is a kid focused witch + earth skills camp, and is offered in an effort to support our witchlets in establishing a lifelong magical practice of gathering to ritualize, play, learn, and share skills in honor of the Spring Equinox Tides. 

We'll be making rituals, land offerings, having lots of forest play,

going on plant walks, and getting crafty with some natural dying experiments.

We'll also be sharing and practicing our skills in fire making,

wildlife tracking, and primitive shelter building.

And, we'll be treated to an extra special magic show from Mountain Man Magic. 

We had a great time last year!

So many memorable moments to hold dear.

Check out our photo album from Phlox & Flame 2019 here. 

**Camp registration is still open. Payment due by March 18th.

We have a few more transport spots for witchlets who need a ride to camp and back to be able to join us. Transport is offered at $30 each way in addition to camp registration.

And we still have one parent spot available for a parent who'd like to attend camp with their kiddo. Parent registration offered at no cost.**

Logistics

This camp is :

* a camp for kids

* a safe and gender affirming container for all gender identities and expressions

* open to witchlets of the Moon's Nest Playschool as well as our wider circles
* open to witchlets ages 5+

Arrival : 4:00 pm on Wednesday March 18 

Departure : 1:00 pm on Saturday March 21

*Day Camper option available* 

   Camp Tuition

Resident Camper  : $175-$250, sliding scale

Day Camper : $50/day

All lodging, meals, and materials included in registration

Families of the Moon's Nest Playschool, enrolled in at least one day a week, receive a $50 credit towards their Phlox & Flame residency camp registration or $25 credit towards their day camper registration!! And further, playschool friends who would like to make camp but are facing barriers to being able to join us, I'm committed to working together to find a way.  So please do reach out and we'll work it out!

Please send an email to moonsnestplayschool@gmail.com

with any questions you might have about this year's camp prior to registering. 

To register via our Google Form and reserve your spot, follow link in button below. 

Knapp Falls Natural Area and Woodlands

Spring Break Field Studies

The Moon's Nest School of Magic, Mischief, & Mystery invites you to join us for some sweet Spring break play magic. While playschool and teacher Claire take repose, we'll be offering 3 days of adventurous Portland Town Field Studies for witchlets ages 4 and up. Come and welcome Spring to Portland Town with us!

Monday March 23rd: Knapp Falls & PlayHaven Park 11-3

Tuesday March 24: Portland Children's Museum 10-4

Wednesday March 25th : Tideman Johnson Park 11-3

Registration for all three days is offered at a sliding scale of $75-$150

Witchlets of the Moon's Nest Playschool enrolled in at least one day a week, y'all get a $25 credit towards registration.

Drop in days offered at : 

$50 /day for non enrolled families

$25/day for families enrolled in at least one day a week.

Please email us at moonsnestplayschool@gmail.com to rsvp your witchlet to join us on our Spring Break Field Studies! 

Beltane Campout

April 24 - 26

Oxbow Regional Park 

Mark your calendars!

Lorax and Miz Flow are planning a super special Beltane Campout!

We'll gather in honor of Mid Spring, and Lorax's 7th solar return!!!

So much more to come soon, but please do mark your calendars and plan to join us for these very special celebrations. 

Granny Baby Alfonso; Johnson Creek water sit spot  

It's Tuition Time! 

Heya Moon's Nest Families, 

Please do take a moment to send in yer March tuiton. And please do remember, tuition is due no later than the 3rd day of the month. 

Thank you!

Follow Our Days and happenings on Social Media

The Moon's Nest now has its own dedicated Instagram page! 

Click here to go find & follow us!

That's it for this month friends! 

May our days together be full

of play, adventure, and connection.