Monkey Tree Early Years Nature Program in Comox will be closing at the end of June 2018
and will not resume services in September 2018.
I am grateful for the current families we have now and in the past, and how we have created and maintained a respectful, caring, compassionate, and transparent Monkey Tree community. We attract like minded families,
who honour the rhythm of childhood in a natural learning environment. Monkey Tree has been a childcare service to families in Halfmoon Bay, BC, Airdrie, AB, and Comox, BC since 2005. I have been blessed and honoured to have cared for and been a model in the process of children's developing early years,
almost 100 families have passed through my doors!
Thank you for the lifelong learning, and now I will pursue other interests!
Healing the broken bond between our young and nature is in everyone’s self-interest,
not only because aesthetics or justice demand it, but also because our mental, physical,
and spiritual health depend upon it.
Richard Louv
Monkey Tree aims to be a high quality early childhood setting for the care of your child aged 3-5 years.
The program provides a caring, nurturing, and natural educational environment. Monkey Tree is located in Comox in a quiet neighborhood next to the Northeast Woods. Officially licensed as a family child care facility through Island North (Vancouver Island Health Authority) along with a Town of Comox business license, and also registered with PacificCARE since NOVEMBER 2015.
Focusing on what we have been gifted, the natural world is our classroom. Children will be outdoors for the majority of the morning program, taking advantage of our neighbourhood forest and the large yard at Monkey Tree. Home base offers learning materials for imagination, art, music and movement, construction, cooking/baking, and food gardening. We'll also be off site for a field trip once per month to another forested area such as Lazo Marsh and Mack Laing Nature Park, ocean side at Kye Bay and Kin Beach Provincial Park.
One Early Childhood Educator and six children (two separate groups) provides a rich, intimate, and engaging interaction with peers and the natural world. A nature program that is driven by children's interests, both here at Monkey Tree and out exploring in the forest and other earthly areas!
Monkey Tree encourages children to use their abilities to discover, explore, and use their curiosity to become a more confident learner. The program is based on developmentally appropriate best practices and follows children’s individual and group interests. The following is encouraged, fostered, and promoted:
The program provides a caring, nurturing, and natural educational environment. Monkey Tree is located in Comox in a quiet neighborhood next to the Northeast Woods. Officially licensed as a family child care facility through Island North (Vancouver Island Health Authority) along with a Town of Comox business license, and also registered with PacificCARE since NOVEMBER 2015.
Focusing on what we have been gifted, the natural world is our classroom. Children will be outdoors for the majority of the morning program, taking advantage of our neighbourhood forest and the large yard at Monkey Tree. Home base offers learning materials for imagination, art, music and movement, construction, cooking/baking, and food gardening. We'll also be off site for a field trip once per month to another forested area such as Lazo Marsh and Mack Laing Nature Park, ocean side at Kye Bay and Kin Beach Provincial Park.
One Early Childhood Educator and six children (two separate groups) provides a rich, intimate, and engaging interaction with peers and the natural world. A nature program that is driven by children's interests, both here at Monkey Tree and out exploring in the forest and other earthly areas!
Monkey Tree encourages children to use their abilities to discover, explore, and use their curiosity to become a more confident learner. The program is based on developmentally appropriate best practices and follows children’s individual and group interests. The following is encouraged, fostered, and promoted:
- Play and Exploration
- Active Learning
- Creativity and Critical Thinking
- Belonging and Connecting
- Being Active and Expressing
- Thinking, Imagining, and Understanding