— THE THURSDAY PROGRAMS · TWO SEASONS
Florida's seasons shape our Thursdays.
We lean into Florida's climate rather than fighting it. Two very different Thursdays across the year — both exceptional, both deeply intentional.
Hot months · April – October Indoors
Session A — STEM+ lab Design challenges, real materials, electronics, building, and the productive joy of things that don't work the first time. Growing innovators from age four to fourteen.
Session B — Handwork & practical arts Woodworking, sewing, weaving, cooking. Skills that build spatial reasoning, patience, and genuine pride in making something with your own hands.
Cool months · November – March Outdoors
Younger children — Forest school Free exploration, fire, mud, den building, and the confidence that comes from genuine time in nature. Child-led, unhurried, and deeply intentional.
Older children & teens — Outdoor skills Survival skills, shelter building, woodcraft, growing a garden. Learning to be genuinely capable in the world beyond screens.
The block cycle — five weeks to go deep, one week to go somewhere.
One of the greatest gifts of homeschooling is time — time to actually live, to experience the world, not just read about it. Every sixth week we take that gift seriously. The whole Grove community goes somewhere and does something together — something genuinely physical, genuinely challenging, or genuinely memorable. Not a worksheet about kayaking. Actual kayaking. Not a lesson about resilience. An afternoon on a ropes course finding out they have more in it than they thought.
Archery
Kayaking
Beach Trips
Fishing
Rock Climbing
Nature Reserve
Paintball
Farm Visits