Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Now enrolling for 2024-25!

Forest Nursery School

Fort Tryon Park


Tuesdays, Wednesday, Thursdays

Semester 1: Sept 10, 2024 - Jan 23, 2025

Semester 2: Jan 28, 2025 - June 19, 2025


9:15 am to 12:30 pm for kids age 2 to 4




A typical morning in forest nursery school

Children explore, play, imagine, and work together outdoors in Ft. Tryon Park for the entire morning. Our nurturing teachers lovingly guide the children while observing each child individually and each situation with care.

  • Play in open places with rocks, logs, sticks, and leaves, look at nature, climb trees, and be physically active

  • Children practice and develop

✓ their physical bodies (balance, coordination, physical strength)

✓ social-emotional skills while building connections and friendships

✓ respect for each other

  • Movement circles with songs and verses (e.g. greeting each other, greeting the forest)

✓ Expand language, including small Spanish component 

✓ Develop fine- and gross-motor skills

✓ Follow directions

✓ Forming a sense of being part of a group

  • Sharing a snack together of fresh fruits and vegetables, sandwiches, and tea 


Benefits of forest nursery school

  • Develop an appreciation for nature and the environment as they experience all the seasons outdoors

  • Build lifelong resilience 

  • Direct their own play and follow their own curiosity, strengthening their imagination because they are in a natural environment where they create and play with what’s there


    Tuition per semester starts at $1,900 for Tues/Thurs each week or $2,800 for Tues/Weds/Thurs each week, plus a one-time registration fee of $50.


For more information and registration, email admin@thewoodenbutton.com