Roots & Wings Learning Community!
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Space available in 2025/2026, and waitlist is open - REGISTER HERE
Questions? email [email protected]
Space available in 2025/2026, and waitlist is open - REGISTER HERE
Questions? email [email protected]
ABOUT ROOTS & WINGS
The Roots & Wings Learning Community is an outdoor educational program that serves homeschool children through experiential education. The program began in 2018 and is based at Freetown Farm, our 6-acre organic farm in Columbia. Roots and Wings aims to provide children of all walks of life with a place to feel connected, to feel welcome and to feel a sense of educational freedom. The program builds flexible curriculum to ensure self-guided learning opportunities, while consistently offering environmental engagement, arts integration, social emotional learning, animal husbandry, land stewardship, STEM & literary exploration and free play.
Why Farm-Based Education?
Farm-based education is among the most effective and promising, because of the innate ability in people to be able to connect to farms; it promotes life values by relating to the social, moral, cognitive, and emotional aspects of the human experience. Outdoor education provides hands-on learning that builds confidence, self-awareness, and individual and collective responsibility which leads to the sustainable stewardship of our world.
Important program notes:
The Roots & Wings Learning Community is an outdoor educational program that serves homeschool children through experiential education. The program began in 2018 and is based at Freetown Farm, our 6-acre organic farm in Columbia. Roots and Wings aims to provide children of all walks of life with a place to feel connected, to feel welcome and to feel a sense of educational freedom. The program builds flexible curriculum to ensure self-guided learning opportunities, while consistently offering environmental engagement, arts integration, social emotional learning, animal husbandry, land stewardship, STEM & literary exploration and free play.
Why Farm-Based Education?
Farm-based education is among the most effective and promising, because of the innate ability in people to be able to connect to farms; it promotes life values by relating to the social, moral, cognitive, and emotional aspects of the human experience. Outdoor education provides hands-on learning that builds confidence, self-awareness, and individual and collective responsibility which leads to the sustainable stewardship of our world.
Important program notes:
- The Roots and Wings Learning Community runs programming Monday - Thursday during the school year.
- Age group offerings include Bulbs (5-7 yrs), Sprouts (8-10 yrs), Buds (11-13 yrs) and Blooms (14-17 yrs).
- Bulbs and Sprouts run Monday - Thursday 9:30-3:30pm.
- Buds runs Tuesday and Wednesday 9:30-3:30pm
- Blooms runs Tuesday afternoons from 12-4pm
- Tuition for 2024/2025: $2160 per child, per day attended for a 30-week program year.
- Roots and Wings is primarily held outdoors and meets in the educational center for art-related projects and during inclement weather only.
- Children must be registered as homeschoolers to participate.
- Families are responsible for completing reviews through the county they reside or with a private umbrella.
- Roots and Wings is not a school and stands solely as a supplemental educational program.
- Children must be 5 years old by August 1st in order to participate in the upcoming program year.
It has been said that there are two lasting bequests we can give to our children--roots and wings:
Roots in a deep sense of connection to themselves, their community, and their place in the world that leads to a deep sense of curiosity and a love of learning.
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Wings that will help them soar into wider worlds of understanding and sense of purpose in how they bring forth their passions and talents as they grow.
Roots in a deep sense of connection to themselves, their community, and their place in the world that leads to a deep sense of curiosity and a love of learning.
-- AND --
Wings that will help them soar into wider worlds of understanding and sense of purpose in how they bring forth their passions and talents as they grow.
