Minneapolis Nature Preschool

Capturing children’s photography for our graduation gallery with the screen free these cameras are so cool!! 📸

Everyone give a CONGRATULATIONS to Teacher Elizabeth!

She graduated from the U of M with a Masters of Arts degree in Child and Adolescent Developmental Psychology with an emphasis on Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health 🎓✨🧠💕

We’re so proud and WE LOVE YOU! Minneapolis Nature Preschool is so lucky and grateful to have you on staff.
🩷❤️🧡💛🥰💚🩵💙💜

Woohooo 🤩 you’re amazing!!!

We’re so proud to be a part of the Bryn Mawr Bulldog community!!!

Kicking off Teacher Appreciation Week with 🏀✨

✨ JOIN US FOR EARTH DAY • THURSDAY APRIL 25TH 2:30-5PM ✨

Jill Druckman is a founding teacher of Minneapolis Nature Preschool and in her great honor here are ten photos of her teaching journey at our school, in mostly chronological order, beginning with our first ever preschool class in the fall of 2018 and ending with a photo from just a few weeks ago 🥹

Join us in celebrating this amazing human! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TEACHER JILL! 🎉🥳🎁🎂😘❤️ We love you!

We’re hiring a Nature Preschool Teacher for the 2024-2025 school year! Application deadline is April 7.

For more information visit https://jobs.minnesotanonprofits.org/job/nature-preschool-teacher-minneapolis-minnesota-91174

We have a few spots left in our Planet Protectors Summer Camp! 🌎✨ Register now at minneapolisnaturepreschool.org/camps

The quintessential joy of childhood—playing with a parachute at school! Brings back great memories 💕 today we helped this stuffed fledgling flyyyyy!! 🪂

Today is the LAST DAY of priority registration for next year! Miss the deadline? Sign up to be put on our waitlist.

Currently enrolled children, siblings, North Minneapolis residents, Black and Indigenous children, families of color and LGBTQ2S+ families always have priority enrollment at our school!

Don’t delay, register today! 💗

www.minneapolisnaturepreschool.org/registration

We’re Hiring! 📣
Learn more about the position at: https://jobs.minnesotanonprofits.org/job/part-time-bookkeeper-administrative-assistant-minneapolis-minnesota-90040/hash/3e2d443c6fab644acb70510ca8f33306

This is what our families have to say about Minneapolis Nature Preschool! ❤️

We got our mid-year surveys back and the responses were absolutely amazing. It’s no wonder our school attracts the most wonderful people. We are so grateful to the community we have built!

Interested in joining our nature preschool? Enrollment is open for the 2024-2025 school year and our first priority enrollment deadline is February 29, 2024.

Register today at www.minneapolisnaturepreschool.org/registration

Proof that it was winter for two weeks in 2024 ❄️ It’s February now and our priority deadline for enrollment ends on 2/29/2024

Register today at www.minneapolisnaturepreschool.org/registration

How cool is this ice castle created by 😍✨

We are so lucky to have this interactive art piece available for our children to engage with in a variety of ways; to build! explore! and create something new! We love invitations like this ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷 if you’d like to know more about our school and/or nature play in Mni Sota, contact us for a tour!!

Registration is open for the 2024-2025 school year!

Nature play AND CARDBOARD?! Sign me up for the fun 📦🌿✨

Register now at https://www.minneapolisnaturepreschool.org/registration

Registration is OPEN for the 2024-2025 school year! 🤩

Please help us spread the word by liking and sharing widely! Visit our website at minneapolisnaturepreschool.org to register today 💫

Celebrate raising over $8000 toward MNP scholarships with us!

Our winter celebration is this Thursday, December 7th, from 5-7 pm and features a woodland luminary walk, star gazing, hot coco and more!

Thank you everyone who participated in our silent auction 😃 EVERYONE IS INVITED to our Winter Sostive Celebration!

Enjoy a luminary walk through our school forest 🕯️and pick up any item(s) you won!

MNP’s Silent auction opens today!
The auction runs from Dec 1st to Dec 4th and features beautiful art made by local artists, event tickets, a signed MN Vikings helmet, and much more!

The auction can be found on Bidding Owl (link on our website)

Happy bidding!

OUR ONLINE SILENT AUCTION is officially LIVE until December 4, 2023 at 7pm CST.

These are the items I got my eyes on 👀 What’s your favorite item?

Help us raise funds for the children and get something special for someone you love. Visit https://new.biddingowl.com/MNP to place your bid today 😃

Today is Give to the Max day and we could not be more grateful for all of the support from our community!
We are so close to meeting our fundraising goal, we can’t thank you enough for sharing and supporting our mission of connecting children to nature based learning in the city 💚💚💚

Enrollment is now open for the 2024-2025 school year 💚💚💚
Head to our website to learn more!

Thanks to the generosity of our community we have already met our first match of $1000! We feel so fortunate to announce a second match of $2700!
There are two more days until Give to the Max day on Nov. 16th… help us to reach our second match and to offer greater access to nature based learning in Minneapolis!

Give to the Max 2023 early giving is already underway!
Every child deserves a chance to cultivate their natural curiosity. Your support allows our program to offer greater access and outreach to connect children with nature based learning!

Please share! A wonderful opportunity for Oceti Ŝakowiŋ families to learn and speak Dakhóta together at the Belwin Conservancy in Afton, MN.

While this is a free event, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Dakhóta Iápi Okhódakičhiye (DIO). Your contribution will assist in the creation of new Dakota language materials for use in the home, community and classroom!

We’ll post a link in our stories and in the comments!! ❤️

Minneapolis Nature Preschool is back in session! 🍂

Enrollment is open in our afternoon classes. Please share with a friend! Or better still, register today and make some friends that will last a lifetime ❤️