IWonder Flagstaff

08/18/2025

🌱 This Fall’s Tinkergarten focus is Wellness—because when kids learn to care for their 💪, 🧠, and ❤️, they grow strong in every way. We’ll nurture wellness outdoors, together, through play and community. Join us! 🍂💚
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05/27/2025

And that's a wrap on our Spring Empathy Season! 🌸 These young explorers have blossomed into more empathetic friends, learning to name their feelings, recognize the feelings of others, and consider ways to help those around them all through outdoor play! 💗
⛺I'm thrilled to see our explorers grow this summer at Camp Tinkergarten! 🌟 Explore my summer offerings with the link below and join the movement of playful learning that's changing the world, one heart at a time! ❤️

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02/28/2025

***🤩Just one spot left!***
🌷Spring Registration is OPEN!!!
The calendar may still say winter, but the birds, and the weather tell us Spring is on the way!
💗Join us this season as we explore our human superpower - EMPATHY! I can't think of a better time than now to practice and teach our young learners how to recognize and understand their emotions and learn to see the world through the eyes of others.
🌈For 7 weeks we will learn all about EMPATHY in the best classroom of all - NATURE!
Classes are limited so sign up today! If you sign up this week, use code EARLYBIRD10 for a registration discount!
Learn and play nature's way!
Find out more and register HERE! https://form.jotform.com/243367362750156

02/12/2025

❄❄❄Just a few spots left for this FREE Professional Development Workshop for Early Educators! Use the link below and come get outside with me this Saturday as we learn and play, nature's way!

Dear Flagstaff Early Educators,
I am thrilled to collaborate with my dear friend, long-time Tinkergarten supporter, and Environmental Science Educator to bring outdoor learning, environmental awareness, and stewardship through play to life!

This past year, the Arizona Project WET organization, received generous sponsorship from to conduct four professional development workshops for teachers—one workshop for each season. This February, they are hosting a hybrid workshop focused on early learning, centered around Project WET's curriculum guide, "Getting Little Feet WET," designed for pre-k to Grade 2.
The 1.5 hour workshop will be offered online and I will be hosting an outdoor playdate for educators to accompany our workshop.
Find out more and REGISTER HERE! https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9AzWURP5xkXy42a

01/30/2025

Last time at Tinkergarten, these Explorers wondered, "How can we balance the things around us?". We kicked off our "We Are Scientists" unit by setting up stations to explore physics concepts in playful ways and took some cues from a creature with great balancing skills - the Beaver !🦫
⚖Scales and balance boards offer kids hands-on, accessible ways to explore scientific concepts like cause and effect, weight and balance, and simple machines. They also provide
practice using super scientist skills, like comparing, making predictions, and testing solutions.
💪Best of all, these super balancers had the BEST time exercising their vestibular and proprioceptive skills by balancing themselves and their friends!

Children learn best through play and there's no better classroom than nature!
Kinsey Inquiry and Discovery School-Elementary IWonder Flagstaff Unified School District

01/30/2025

Can't wait! Come join me and learn like a kid again - through play!!!

Dear Flagstaff Early Educators,
I am thrilled to collaborate with my dear friend, long-time Tinkergarten supporter, and Environmental Science Educator to bring outdoor learning, environmental awareness, and stewardship through play to life!

This past year, the Arizona Project WET organization, received generous sponsorship from to conduct four professional development workshops for teachers—one workshop for each season. This February, they are hosting a hybrid workshop focused on early learning, centered around Project WET's curriculum guide, "Getting Little Feet WET," designed for pre-k to Grade 2.
The 1.5 hour workshop will be offered online and I will be hosting an outdoor playdate for educators to accompany our workshop.
Find out more and REGISTER HERE! https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9AzWURP5xkXy42a

01/29/2025

Dear Flagstaff Early Educators,
I am thrilled to collaborate with my dear friend, long-time Tinkergarten supporter, and Environmental Science Educator to bring outdoor learning, environmental awareness, and stewardship through play to life!

This past year, the Arizona Project WET organization, received generous sponsorship from to conduct four professional development workshops for teachers—one workshop for each season. This February, they are hosting a hybrid workshop focused on early learning, centered around Project WET's curriculum guide, "Getting Little Feet WET," designed for pre-k to Grade 2.
The 1.5 hour workshop will be offered online and I will be hosting an outdoor playdate for educators to accompany our workshop.
Find out more and REGISTER HERE! https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9AzWURP5xkXy42a

01/15/2025

🦔Our Winter Problem-Solving Season is in full swing, and these brave explorers have faced chilly temperatures to create a cozy hideaway for their prickly pals. At the heart of science and problem-solving is our wonder about our world. As our explorers pondered how to help their hedgehogs survive the cold, avoid predators, and build a lasting burrow until spring, they embodied curiosity and resilience.

❓❓❓Problems often appear as questions we have yet to answer—an invitation to embrace the unknown. The best way to uncover answers is by continuing to ask more questions! Throughout this season, we will practice problem-solving in the most inspiring classroom of all—nature!

🌷Winter classes are currently full, but as spring approaches, we are excited for what's ahead. Stay tuned for more information about our upcoming Spring Season!
IWonder Flagstaff Kinsey Inquiry and Discovery School-Elementary

10/26/2024

🌟Our Annual Fall Lantern Walk is just a week away!
🍁Join us for our FREE Community Tinkergarten Lantern Walk, a cherished fall tradition that helps families embrace change and transition into winter with renewed hope, joy, and gratitude. During this event, we sing songs, honor the cycles of nature, and share our gratitude as we come together to appreciate the beauty of the moment.

🌙Walking outdoors at dusk is a delightful and rare experience for kids, allowing us all to engage our senses with sounds, sights, and scents that are often unnoticed in daylight. We hope you'll join us and help light up the night! Please register below so we know how many to expect!

❓When: Saturday, November 2nd, 5-6pm
❓Where: The Children's Garden at Foxglenn Park
❓What: Bring a lantern or flashlight, or create your own lantern as shown HERE: https://tinkergarten.com/activities/let-there-be-light
✏Kindly RSVP Here: https://form.jotform.com/242545474409158

See you there! 💖

10/23/2024

🔎Last week at Tinkergarten and Kinsey Forest Fridays, we continued our season of focus by zooming in on the natural treasures around us. We collected objects from our outdoor classroom and explored different ways to sort, categorize, and display them.
❄️Fall classes are full, but a few spots remain in our upcoming Winter Problem-Solving Season. Act now and get 15% off until 10/31 with code EARLYBIRD15.
✏Find out more, and sign up HERE: https://www.jotform.com/form/241876659513064

10/19/2024

❄It's beginning to look a lot like - WINTER!❄
We are still deep in our Fall Focus Series, but winter is just around the corner.
Next season, we will practice Problem-Solving through engaging play invitations in the best classroom of all... NATURE!
There are just a few spots left for our seven-week Winter series, and if you sign up before October 31, you can get 15% off registration! Use code EARLYBIRD15 and sign up HERE: https://www.jotform.com/form/241876659513064.
Let's Play!

10/10/2024

💦 Last week at Tinkergarten, we explored a precious resource and the greatest treasure to all living things – water! Playing with water is both stimulating and calming – the ideal combination for turning on our brains and freeing up our capacity to focus. Stay tuned for more wonderful ways to build focus in your explorers all season long!