Discovery

This parent/child program is designed for the creative, curious, and active preschooler. Each 90-minute session offers a structured series of activities including original songs, movement, dramatic play, hands-on science, and a thematic snack. You'll receive coloring pages, song lyrics, vocabulary, a fun fact sheet, and a suggested reading list via email.  In these sessions we'll explore the wonders of ice!

NEW! Our afternoon starts off with self-guided activities, challenges, or puzzles that lead us to our topic for the day. As a group, we'll observe, investigate, and compare wildlife, their adaptations, and the changes that they undergo in autumn. Participants may play the role of entomologist, ornithologist, astronomer, or even glaciologist throughout this series. Each experience will leave your young naturalist eager for the next session. And we always end with a tasty, thematic treat that the participants make! We may go outside for the beginning of this class. Please dress for the weather with hats, boots and be sure to bring gloves to handle ice during the program!

An active, fun, program where you and your child will learn all about how animals like bats, raccoons, owls, and even ocean creatures use their senses during the night to find food, avoid predators, and attract a mate! Using video, sound effects, and fun props we will act out, sing, and “wake up” with nocturnal creatures!

NEW! Our afternoon starts off with self-guided activities, challenges, or puzzles that lead us to our topic for the day. As a group, we'll observe, investigate, and compare wildlife, their adaptations, and the changes that they undergo in autumn. Participants may play the role of entomologist, ornithologist, astronomer, or even glaciologist throughout this series. Each experience will leave your young naturalist eager for the next session. And we always end with a tasty, thematic treat that the participants make!

An active, fun, program where you and your child will learn all about how animals like bats, raccoons, owls, and even ocean creatures use their senses during the night to find food, avoid predators, and attract a mate! Using video, sound effects, and fun props we will act out, sing, and “wake up” with nocturnal creatures!

An active, fun, program where you and your child will learn all about how animals like bats, raccoons, owls, and even ocean creatures use their senses during the night to find food, avoid predators, and attract a mate! Using video, sound effects, and fun props we will act out, sing, and “wake up” with nocturnal creatures!

An active, fun, program where you and your child will learn all about how animals like bats, raccoons, owls, and even ocean creatures use their senses during the night to find food, avoid predators, and attract a mate! Using video, sound effects, and fun props we will act out, sing, and “wake up” with nocturnal creatures!

Join us as we share a children's nature story before we explore the woods, fields, and wetlands of the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary.  This month we'll focus on the secrets of salamanders.

This week we hike through a coastal forest habitat! We'll will focus on the importance of a sense of place as we explore the ecology, sights, and sounds of our natural landscape. Wildlife, local and migrating birds, collecting techniques, and environmental awareness will be presented in a fun, energetic format that adults and children alike will enjoy.

Join us as we share a children's nature story before we explore the woods, fields, and wetlands of the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary.  This month we'll focus on the secrets of salamanders.