GRADES 2-5

adventurers

Older Wonder Kids shape their own missions, build real skills, and lead the way.

Who are adventurers

In the Adventurers program, kids chart their own path —negotiating and choosing where to explore in the park and deciding together how to shape each day. Our program for grades 2-5 is designed for children ready for more independence, challenge, and collaboration. They learn from local artists, build real outdoor skills, and take time to reflect, growing creativity, confidence, and connection along the way.

Wonder Leader and Wonder kid making bubbles

Budding Friendships

Using our imagination to find original solutions to both real and imaginary challenges.

By the end of the this stage, the Wonder Kid:

  • Explores singing along, watercolors, dance, theater, puppets

  • Builds little worlds and fairy houses

  • Explore crafts with different materials (watercolor, clay)

  • Role plays stories with other kids

  • Creates characters with costumes

  • Solve imaginative problems in their stories

  • Follows curiosity

  • Builds some small constructions

  • Identifies landmarks on maps

  • Make inferences based on pictures

  • Nature Walks

What ADVENTURERs learn

The Wonder Compass is a learning framework consisting of 4 areas of personal growth that guide all of our work. Here’s what those areas look like for Wonderers:

  • Using our imagination to find original solutions to both real and imaginary challenges

    • Explores singing along, watercolors, dance, theater, puppets, crafts

    • Role plays stories with other kids

    • Creates characters with costumes

    • Solve imaginative problems in their stories

    • Follows curiosity

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What ADVENTURERS learn

The Wonder Compass is a learning framework consisting of 4 areas of personal growth that guide all of our work. Here’s what those areas look like for Wonderers:

SOVEREIGNTY

Making decisions from a place of autonomy, self-assurance, and deep respect for themselves and their community, embracing responsibility

By the end of the this stage, the Wonder Kid:

  • Respects not only physical boundaries but also relational

  • Intrinsically understands the relationship between freedom and boundaries

  • Gains trust with the leaders by showing responsibility

  • Can advocate for expanding their freedom

  • Takes breaks to regulate their own emotions

  • Takes accountability for their actions

  • Resists social pressure

  • Acts authentically

  • Voices their opinion

  • Acts autonomously to meet physical needs

  • Creates and leads games, stories and activitiesEngages in missions and activities

  • Keeps going even when things get hard

COMMUNITY

Thriving in community and feeling deeply connected to themself, to others and to nature.

By the end of this stage, the Wonder Kid:

  • Takes accountability for their actions

  • Actively works towards repair when needed

  • Solves conflicts on their own (and knows the steps to solve conflicts)

  • Can put themselves on the other person's shoes and develop empathy

  • Can understand how their emotions influence their behaviors

  • Shares what they have

  • Check in with friends independently

  • Looks out for younger kids

  • Stops bullying

  • Makes long lasting friendships

  • Invites others to join their group

  • Can interact with strangers autonomously

  • Participates in the larger community with small social actions and interventions

GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY

Becoming an active citizen of the world, at service of the environmental and social causes of our shared home.

By the end of the this stage, the Wonder Kid:

  • Understands nature cycles and human cycles

  • Avoids creating waste

  • Acknoledges the reality of climate change

  • Embodies an ecological mindset

  • Imagines alternative systems

  • Identifies cause and effect in social realities

  • Seeks knowledge about other cultures and languages

  • Seeks knowledge about history

  • Welcomes cultural differences

  • Takes social action

  • Does acts of service

  • Actively seeks opportunities to engage in society

  • Advocates for democracy and sustainable planet for all

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SUMMER DAY CAMPS

Our registration system uses Sawyer. Please choose your camp dates here below. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to email us at hola@theschoolofwonder.com