Flora and Fauna Learning Center

Today, Flora & Fauna Learning Center implemented our Emergency Evacuation Procedures due to the Upriver Fire. We are grateful to share that all children and staff remained safe throughout the event.

When families choose Flora & Fauna, they trust us with some of the most important parts of their children’s lives - their education, their care, and their safety. While we hope to never need to utilize our emergency procedures, preparedness is an essential part of the responsibility we hold as early childhood educators.

Today, our teaching team demonstrated that commitment with remarkable calm, organization, and care. Through their preparedness and teamwork, our staff completed a full site evacuation with remarkable speed and organization while ensuring every child remained safe, supported, and accounted for throughout the process. Within 10 minutes of the official emergency evacuation notice, all children had either been safely reunited with their families or relocated to our designated off-site location.

We also want to extend our deepest appreciation to our families for their prompt response, flexibility, and trust. In moments like these, community matters - and today, ours showed up in incredible ways. The partnership between educators and families is what allows us to navigate challenging situations with confidence and compassion.

We are incredibly proud of our team and deeply grateful for the trust our families place in us each day. Thank you to everyone who helped ensure a smooth and safe evacuation.

❤️ The Flora & Fauna Learning Center Team

2026 Garden Party 🌱✨

Thank you to all the families who made time to join us for our annual Garden Party! This special community event is an opportunity for families to connect while allowing our students to experience the beauty of community in action. It truly takes a village 🌟

This year’s scavenger hunt gave students the chance to proudly show off their knowledge of the plants and gardens around our yard — identifying yarrow, mullein, beets, borage, raspberry bushes, apple trees, and more. Families enjoyed bubbles, soccer, planting activities, potluck treats, playdate planning, and meaningful conversations that help grow long-lasting connections within our community.

Thank you for helping us create such a joyful and connected day together 💚✨

Full Time Summer School Age Program ☀️
Now Enrolling for a June 2026 start date.

☀️Summer that keeps growing minds 🌱

Our outdoor school-age program offers hands-on, project-based learning in a self-contained outdoor classroom — so students stay curious, engaged, and learning all summer long.

✨ Less screen time, more real-world learning
📚 Reading & writing through research, planning, and reflection
🔢 Math through measuring, mapping, and problem-solving
🔬 Science & STEM through building, testing, and exploring
🤝 Social skills through collaboration and community projects

Children strengthen academic foundations while moving, creating, and connecting — because summer should support school readiness and joy.

Form 🔗 in bio and on website 🙂

Weather as Curriculum ❄️

While building an igloo-style snow fort, children in our program learned many things in the process:
🧊 Explored math and spatial reasoning through counting and stacking snow blocks
🧊 Strengthened language and cognitive skills by listening to and following shared directions
🧊 Practiced prosocial skills through collaboration and peer mentorship

As part of our anti-bias, land- and place-based learning, we discussed how some Indigenous peoples of the Arctic traditionally build igloos to live safely and warmly in cold climates—highlighting human ingenuity, shared community knowledge through generations, and adaptation to place as ways of living in relationship with the environment, honoring many ways of knowing, building, and belonging.

Nearly 100 snow bricks built and laid, together.

Plant the Seed & join our community today 🌱 Availability for a June 2026 and September 2026 start date.
Waitlist 🔗 in bio and on website 🙂

Self Portraits, some of our Kindergarten Prep children 🧒🏽🧑🏻‍🦰👧🏼

We start September with curriculum revolving around Self, Similarities, and Differences. A favorite book in our classroom is Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder 💛