License, adults per child and how we run a forest day

• 1:81 adult to 8 children3-year-olds · Group size: 16
• 1:81 adult to 8 children4-year-olds · Group size: 16

Up to 16 children

with 2 adults

Ages 3 years to 4 years

• Background checks
• CPR and first aid
• Mandated reporter training
• Food handler training

• Weather rules

  We decide at the barn door each morning where the day will be, using the forecast and a look at the sky. Thunder, strong wind and smoky air send the group to the barn room.

• A walk of the site

  Before the children arrive, two adults walk the day's place. They look up for loose branches, down at the trail and along the fence, and they check the animal pens.

• Headcount

  We count at the barn door, at every place we stop and at every move. One adult counts and a second adult confirms. The group never splits without an adult with each part.

• First aid

  Every forest day, two adults carry a first aid kit and a phone, and every adult is trained in first aid and CPR. A teacher tells you about any injury the same day.

• Hand washing

  Hands are washed with soap and water at the barn tap after the animals and the garden, before snack and lunch, and after the toilet.

• Water and animals

  Children stay out of creeks and ponds. On farm day an adult stands beside each child who meets an animal, and the farmer sets the rules for each pen.