Why choose a home-based program for your child?
"Homes are personal, often familial spaces. They are hugely shaped by the lives and personalities of the people who inhabit them. The felt sense of being in a home is very different to that of a community building, a childcare centre, or a primary school. To me it is not really so much a question of which is “better,” and instead more of an honest acknowledgment that home-based programs are really quite distinct."
Symon James-Wilson, owner of @islandforestkinder
Symon James-Wilson, owner of @islandforestkinder
I had this idea in my heart for many many years. To build a safe and warm space where kids of families in need of extra hours after school could unwind from their school day, still feeling some continuity from their Waldorf school setting, and fill their souls with art, crafts and lots of free play. A space that really felt like home away from home. With all its warmth, rhythms, sounds. That's how Casa Muaná was born.
Morning Program 2023/2024
The morning program runs on Wednesdays and Fridays.
It is geared towards kids attending afternoon Kindergarten at the WISE.
Program runs for 4h, from 8:30am to school drop off.
Up to 5 spaces per day
A typical morning rhythm:
-Free play
-circle time
-story time
-craft time
-free play
-lunch time
-school commute
It is geared towards kids attending afternoon Kindergarten at the WISE.
Program runs for 4h, from 8:30am to school drop off.
Up to 5 spaces per day
A typical morning rhythm:
-Free play
-circle time
-story time
-craft time
-free play
-lunch time
-school commute
Afternoon Program 2023/2024
The afternoon program runs 5 days/week from Mondays to Fridays.
It welcomes any school aged children from kindergarten to Grade 5.
Program runs for 3h, from School pick up to 6pm.
Up to to 5 spaces per day.
For our craft time, possible choices are watercolour, needle felting, baking, drawing, sewing, embroidery, seasonal crafting.
I try to follow the lead of the kids, and what they are more interested in.
A Typical afternoon rhythm may include:
-Snack time
-free play
-circle time
-story time
-handworks/arts/crafts
-free play
It welcomes any school aged children from kindergarten to Grade 5.
Program runs for 3h, from School pick up to 6pm.
Up to to 5 spaces per day.
For our craft time, possible choices are watercolour, needle felting, baking, drawing, sewing, embroidery, seasonal crafting.
I try to follow the lead of the kids, and what they are more interested in.
A Typical afternoon rhythm may include:
-Snack time
-free play
-circle time
-story time
-handworks/arts/crafts
-free play
