Resilience through relationship
No matter who you are, nature welcomes you
Jumping Mouse Outdoor School explores, learns, and plays in the beautiful homelands of the Michi Saagig Anishinaabeg, in Nogojiwanong, the place at the end of the rapids. We are so grateful to be here, among the plants and animals and lichens and people and birds and frogs and streams and lakes and rocks and trees. We are here, most of all, to take care of one another and the land that cares for us.
Our mission is to nurture children's sense of connection and relationship to nature through thoughtful mentorship. On an individual level, time spent in nature provides kids with many cognitive, developmental, emotional, and physical benefits. On a global level, we believe that a strong emotional connection to the natural world is a prerequisite for true environmental stewardship and the health of our planet. With every day spent outdoors with each group of bright, passionate, and truly alive children, we are working towards a living, beautiful future for our children and grandchildren.
We provide kids with positive and thoughtful mentors and role-models who reinforce kids' self-sufficiency, self-esteem, competence, empathy, and connection to nature. We believe that mentoring relationships result in a keener sense of empathy, emotional and physical resilience, relationship skills, and encourages kids' passion for learning. We strive to hold our students in a strong container of emotional and physical safety while facilitating their experiences of adventure, challenge, and learning.
We value learning through games, imagination, wandering, laughing, questioning and storytelling, observation, being quiet, being loud, sitting very still, sneaking and stalking, catching things, climbing things, making and using tools, field guide surfing, theatre, craft, singing and music, fort-building and puddle splashing!
Jumping Mouse programs change with the seasons, focusing on the opportunities each season brings. Our programming is exclusively outdoors. We use challenging weather as an opportunity to explore ways to stay safe, warm, hydrated, and happy.
Jumping Mouse is an inclusive community for all forest critters and will not discriminate or deny access or accommodation based on race, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity or nationality, culture, religious affiliation, or socioeconomic status.
Our mission is to nurture children's sense of connection and relationship to nature through thoughtful mentorship. On an individual level, time spent in nature provides kids with many cognitive, developmental, emotional, and physical benefits. On a global level, we believe that a strong emotional connection to the natural world is a prerequisite for true environmental stewardship and the health of our planet. With every day spent outdoors with each group of bright, passionate, and truly alive children, we are working towards a living, beautiful future for our children and grandchildren.
We provide kids with positive and thoughtful mentors and role-models who reinforce kids' self-sufficiency, self-esteem, competence, empathy, and connection to nature. We believe that mentoring relationships result in a keener sense of empathy, emotional and physical resilience, relationship skills, and encourages kids' passion for learning. We strive to hold our students in a strong container of emotional and physical safety while facilitating their experiences of adventure, challenge, and learning.
We value learning through games, imagination, wandering, laughing, questioning and storytelling, observation, being quiet, being loud, sitting very still, sneaking and stalking, catching things, climbing things, making and using tools, field guide surfing, theatre, craft, singing and music, fort-building and puddle splashing!
Jumping Mouse programs change with the seasons, focusing on the opportunities each season brings. Our programming is exclusively outdoors. We use challenging weather as an opportunity to explore ways to stay safe, warm, hydrated, and happy.
Jumping Mouse is an inclusive community for all forest critters and will not discriminate or deny access or accommodation based on race, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity or nationality, culture, religious affiliation, or socioeconomic status.