Forest Families - Exploring the Falaise St-Jacques
Schedule: Sundays at noon, biweekly from January 25 to February 22. Register for all 3 sessions for $75, or register for individual drop-ins for $35 per day.
Location: Falaise St-Jacques (meeting point: behind the Rose Bowl, 6510 Rue Saint-Jacques)
Our Forest School teacher Ingrid Birker will teach you how animals and plants live and thrive in an urban forest (in English with accommodation in French).
Families should bring their own lunches and dress appropriately.
The instructor will provide a plant-based forest snack, story time, and a take home activity. Families are encouraged to bring along and share information and stories that match the theme.
Winter Schedule
- Jan 25: Building quinzees and other snow structures. If snow is not available we will create stick shelters.
- Feb 08: Fire in the Falaise. Each family will learn how to make a mini pan fire safely and with help from Chris Breier, a volunteer from Sauvons la Falaise. We will learn how to cook a forest snack over a pit fire.
- Feb 22: Tracks, burrows and drays in the Falaise. From the ground to the top of the trees we will find traces of how animals move and live. We will learn how to prepare plaster casts of animal footprints.
*Registration is PER FAMILY, up to two adults and three children
(for larger families, please register twice).
