Wrapping Up Year One at Hartley Nature Center Preschool

Incorporating Nature Into Education at an Early Age

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The first year of preschool at The Hartley Nature Center in Duluth is wrapping up, and it was a success!

The non–traditional pre–k classes have the kids outside every day, incorporating nature into all lessons.

Teachers say the kids have grown so much since day one.

“When they weren’t comfortable being on the climbing tree themselves, or would fall down a lot when we would move through the forest, to now when they scamper around in the forest, jumping over logs, hopping over things,” said Kaitlin Erpestad, Director of the Preschool at Hartley Nature Center.

The nature center is still accepting waitlist positions for the upcoming school year.