Nature-first learning
A nature-based homeschool curriculum that starts in your backyard
Inspired by Charlotte Mason and forest-school traditions, Forest Academy treats the outdoors as the first classroom. Every walk can become a full lesson — and a dated record.
Step 1
Notice
Your child finds something outside — a feather, a mushroom, a storm cloud.
Step 2
Explore
Voyager turns it into a unit study across science, math, language, history and art, plus a living book.
Step 3
Adapt
Each child gets quests matched to their age: hands-on play for little ones, field guides for middle years, models and research for teens.
Step 4
Record
Quests save to today's records with the date, so your portfolio builds itself — following your own state's rules.
Sample unit: "We found a monarch caterpillar"
- Science — life cycles and milkweed
- Math — measure and graph growth each day
- Geography — trace the migration to Mexico on the Living Globe
- Language — keep a nature journal entry
- Art — watercolor the chrysalis
Records are home-kept, guardian-attested logs — not accreditation or credit.