Classes for home school students

NURTURE THE NATURE IN YOUR CHILD....Nature is the place where children naturally thrive. Their sensory awareness is enhanced, their physical ability and agility is improved, their concentration and cognitive ability increases and their creative imagination is stimulated. Nature is the foundation for an infinite learning experience. Yet, more and more, the average child spends increasingly less time connecting to nature. Research has proven time and again how beneficial nature is to children's development, but also how a disconnect can be detrimental to their overall wellness and development. It is time to get your children outside in nature!

Since all of our time is spent outside, our curriculum will flow with the natural rhythm of the changing seasons. Through a full year’s curriculum, students will learn many basics of wilderness survival, including but not limited to: finding and making shelter, the basics of identifying and following animal tracks, understanding bird language, identifying their local plants for food, medicine, and much more. We have a huge resource of games that will increase your child's confidence, proprioception, agility, reflexes, social skills, teamwork, awareness, and more. We make time for quiet and solitude in nature, to nurture each child's personal experience with nature. We cultivate a deep connection with our local plants by utilizing them for beautiful crafts, such as cordage (rope made from natural materials), baskets, containers, and more. We will also nurture their innate compassion for the animal world through crafts, such as creating track molds, bird feeders, and more. Always along the way are the precious, unplanned lessons that nature provides to us in the moment, once we learn the awareness to see and recognize them.

All of our home school programs have two sessions per semester (they vary in length). The programs are divided into 3 groups according to age:

Nature Ninjas - This program is for 8-12 year olds. Students taking this course will gain knowledge in all the previously mentioned topics, through a direct experience with nature and close mentorship with our instructors.  Activities and lessons flow with the seasons as the students deepen their connection to nature through constant observation and interaction. This class is offered Wednesdays and Fridays, 9:00-3:00. We prefer that ninja students register for 1 class per week, if you would like more please contact us.

who have been attending our programs for awhile. You must contact us first if you are interested in registering. This class is offered on Mondays from 9:00-3:00.

Standards of Learning: Kids are natural scientists. Given the opportunity, they are constantly creating experiments, making observations, and coming to conclusions. Science is the study of the natural world, and what better place to learn about it than directly from the source - nature. Rather than learning in a classroom, where they are removed from the natural environment, in our program they are fully immersed and surrounded by it. They can observe science as it is happening through direct experience, such as the effects of seasonal change, the water moving through it’s cycles, the growth and changes of plant cycles, the steady transition of tadpoles to frogs, observing the skulls and bones of different animals, learning about the predator-prey relationship while finding “kill sites” of animals and dissecting owl pellets - the examples are endless, and they are constantly happening. They will also naturally achieve many standards of learning in Social Studies, from learning about different cultures of Native Americans, both local and nationwide, to learning how to read and draw maps, to many more in between.

Click through the photos above to see more of the many activities we do at Earthbound Skills!

homeschool schedule

• We divide each semester into two sessions, an Early and a Late session. You can register for either one session or both. There is one week off from our classes in-between the two sessions.

• You can sign up for 1 or 2 days a week, 2 days a week per student is our maximum.

• The Woodland Scout class is an advanced class for returning students in that age range. Anyone who wishes to be a Woodland Scout MUST have recently taken at least one semester of Nature Ninja classes with us, as well as contacted us personally for approval.

• To register, just click on the registration button below anytime after it opens. There will be a $25 registration fee due at the time that is separate from your tuition cost listed below. This will ensure your spot is saved.

• Our classes often fill up quickly! We recommend registering as soon as you can. If the class you want is full, please sign up on the wait list.

Prices are subject to change from semester to semester. Prices of each session reflect the amount of weeks per session, which will vary from 6-10 weeks.

Late Fall Session, 2025

October 27 - december 19

REGISTRATION OPEN! There are still some available spots left.

This is a 7-week session for all classes. There will be no class the week of November 24 - 28th. Prices reflect the cost for one class per week for the full session (approximately 2 months).

Spring Semester 2026

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

Spring registration will open Thursday, Nov 6th, at 7:00 PM!

Early Spring session

January 20 - March 13

This is an 8-week session for the Forest Foxes and Nature Ninjas, and a 6-week session for the Woodland Scouts (due to federal/school holidays).

*Exact start/end dates will depend on which day of the week the class is.

Late Spring session

march 23 - may 22

This is an 8-week session for the Forest Foxes and Nature Ninjas, and a 7-week session for the Woodland Scouts (due to federal/school holidays).

*Exact start/end dates will depend on which day of the week the class is.

We work with all homeschool families, and are vendors with South Sutter, Sequoia Grove, Lake View, Feather River, Winship, and Core Butte Charter Schools.

Don’t see your charter school in our list of vendors? Send us an email, we would love to apply to be a vendor for you!