Coyote Village School Day Programs

Join our village and step into wild adventures in nature!

Our weekly, school day programs are our most powerful programs, thanks to our families’ commitment to long-term nature mentoring for their children. With age groups from 5-18, kids don’t just take one of our programs – they grow up in them. Led by our skilled mentors through challenges and reflection in nature, they develop a deep understanding of who they are, what they value, and what their gifts are. Our students come from homeschool, public school, and private school backgrounds, and our program is designed to complement your child’s educational experience no matter what the setting may be. Contact benjamin@twocoyotes.org if you need support as you navigate getting approval from your child’s school to participate in this program.

Coyote Village is a nature-based mentoring program that helps raise healthy and connected children in a community setting. We provide students with a dynamic environment to push their own edges, engage their natural curiosity, and cultivate an intrinsic love of learning that they carry with them for the rest of their lives.

Our age groups include Wild Seeds (5-7), Black Foxes (8-12), and Fire Keepers (13-18). Check out our Coyote Pups caregiver & child programs (age 0-5) and get your little one ready for Wild Seeds!

How to Register

* Starting with Fall 2025, all school year enrollment is managed through a rolling pre-registration process. We review registration submissions on a monthly basis. For more details on pre-registration, click here. Contact dani@twocoyotes.org with any questions.

* Save 5% when you register for 2 seasons upfront; save 10% when you register for all 3. Full-year programs have a 10% discount built in to the price. The discount code is shared when you register.

* Visit twocoyoteswildernessschool.campbrainregistration.com to get started!

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Program Overview

Once a week, students spend a full day immersed in nature. Each day starts with nature games and a gratitude circle. Mornings focus on learning survival and naturalist skills, which deepen over the arc of the year as students observe, ask questions, and apply their skills to hands-on wilderness projects. Activities may include: 

– Starting a fire without matches
– Identifying wild edibles and medicinal plants and using them to make salves or cook a feast
– Building shelters and forts and learning about the history of primitive shelters
– Sitting quietly in reflection and observing the environment; journaling
– Learning animals’ patterns by sneaking invisibly through the forest; learning bird language
– Making handmade tools and crafts from natural materials

After lunch, our afternoons are filled with storytelling, playing in the river, and games that apply the skills learned in the morning. Woven throughout are lessons in peacemaking and nonviolent communication, challenge activities, and teamwork. We close each day in circle sharing stories of the day and a group song that ties together elements of their day.

Over the course of our program, students develop qualities such as leadership, emotional intelligence, resilience, confidence, self expression, service, integrity and other foundational aspects to support personal growth and community-building.

Fall and spring sessions include community events such as Ancestor Feast, Forest Fair, Overnights, and Honoring ceremonies. Overnights are offered in the fall for our seasonal classes and in the spring for our full-year programs, and are included in the tuition. Fire Keepers & Black Foxes camp with their mentors for the night in tarp or debris shelters that they’ve set up themselves. Wild Seeds & Pups camp together with their families in a tent village. There may be a day off mid-session to accommodate mentors who are working an overnight at a different location the night before.

Students have the choice of enrolling by season (fall – 10 weeks, winter – 8 weeks, spring – 10 weeks) or for the entire school year (32 weeks). All programs occur outside, except in hazardous conditions. Our typical student to mentor ratio is 6:1.

See below for a list of important dates. You can also find the full schedule on CampBrain when you register. Enrolled families will be notified via email of any changes to the schedule.

Key Dates for 25/26 School Year

• Monday classes (Granby)
  • FALL (Sept 8 – Nov 10): Honoring Ceremony Nov 10, Make up class Nov 17. Dates for the Fall Overnight, Ancestor Feast & Gear Swap to be confirmed.
  • SPRING (Mar 9 – May 18): Honoring Ceremony May 18, Make up class June 1. Dates for Forest Fair to be confirmed.
• Tuesday classes (Killingworth)
  • FALL (Sept 9 – Nov 18): Honoring Ceremony Nov 18, Make up class Nov 25. Dates for the Fall Overnight, Ancestor Feast, Gear Swap and one off week to be confirmed.
  • WINTER (Jan 6 – Feb 24): Make up class Mar 3
  • SPRING (Mar 17 – May 19): Honoring Ceremony May 19, Make up class May 26. Dates for Forest Fair to be confirmed.
• Wednesday classes (Granby)
  • FULL-YEAR PROGRAM (Sept 10 – May 20): Make up classes (no class if not used) Nov 26, Mar 11, May 27; Honoring Ceremony May 20. No class Dec 24 or 31, one additional off week to be confirmed. Dates for the Ancestor Feast, Winter Gear Swap, Spring Overnight, and Forest Fair to be confirmed.
• Thursday classes (Newtown)
  • FALL (Sept 11 – Nov 13): Honoring Ceremony Nov 13, Make up class Nov 20. Dates for the Fall Overnight, Ancestor Feast & Gear Swap to be confirmed.
  • WINTER (Jan 8 – Feb 26): Make up class Mar 5.
  • SPRING (Mar 19 – May 28): Honoring Ceremony May 28; Make up class June 4. Dates for Forest Fair and one off week to be confirmed.
• Friday classes (Newtown)
  • FULL-YEAR PROGRAM (Sept 12 – May 15): Make up classes (no class if not used) Dec 26, Mar 6, May 29; Honoring Ceremony May 15. No class Nov 28 or May 22, one additional off week to be confirmed. Dates for the Ancestor Feast, Winter Gear Swap, Spring Overnight, and Forest Fair to be confirmed.

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