Life Unbridled

12/02/2023

Social club starting up in January for kids 7-13! Join our group at Los Gatos Farms for 1.5 hours on Sundays for child-directed activities at the farm working with our ponies and horses. This will be a non-riding program.

Students will learn basic horse care, safety and handling while socializing with a mixed-age group of peers. The group aims to foster inclusivity and acceptance, empathy and compassion for others (including our animals) and the emotional well-being of our students.

If your child is an animal lover and is ready to make some likeminded friends at a local farm, reach out to get placed on a waitlist for this upcoming program!

10/13/2023

🐴🐴 Happy Herd Homeschool Enrichment Program - Opening up a 6-week equine learning session at Los Gatos Farms for ages 7-13!

Students will meet weekly (rain or shine) for 1.5 hours to learn all about the world of horses from an experienced equestrian and credentialed teacher

Class will be as student-directed as possible to ensure students remain engaged and are able learn according to their strengths and interests, but may include topics such as:

Horse safety and handling basics
Horse body language and communication
Breeds, colors, markings, measurements
Anatomy and movement
First aid, nutrition and wellness
Horse, tack and barn maintenance

In addition to all the embedded horse-y fun, academics are incorporated situationally into each session as is appropriate and functional, for example measuring a horse’s height, estimating their weight and designing a nutrition plan based on the number, reading and defining new equine-related vocabulary, and so forth.

Working with horses is also an amazing opportunity for social-emotional learning! Students develop greater empathy, self-awareness, responsibility, confidence, and more through working with the horses alongside a mixed age peer group.

✨ Bonus ✨ we have goats, chickens, new ducklings and bunnies at the farm that all need attention too! Students will have opportunities to see and interact with these animals as well.

Details:
Ages 7-13, animal lover is a requirement!
Every Tuesday from 10:30-12:00
From Nov 7- Dec 12
Cost: $450

Minimum of 3 students for program to run
Sign up using the following link:

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=23658176&appointmentType=53937349

04/24/2023

Have kids 5-10 who love animals? 🐴🐐🐷 Come enjoy some sensory fun at Los Gatos Farms as we celebrate National Occupational Therapy month!

A local OT and I are teaming up to offer this one-time 1.5 hour workshop next weekend

Kids will experience the farm and what it’s like to work with our ponies, exploring their senses and learning about horse handling, safety and care!

On the agenda: painting our horses 🎨, bathing the horses 🛁🧼, and completing a fine motor take-home horse craft! 🐴

When: Saturday April 29, 11:30-1:00pm
Cost: $50

Class is capped at 8 students so we can prioritize safety around these beautiful big animals. Comment if you want the link to sign up!

03/26/2023

Spring is here! 🌺🌷 and along with the seasons, we are noticing changes here at the farm…

Our horses are losing their winter coats, so students learned about shedding today to answer the questions: How do horses know when to shed? Why do they shed, and when?

Students followed a sensory trail, and explored the ways we could smell, hear, see, and feel springtime around us.

And, we put together our own nature palettes with pieces of spring foliage we discovered around the farm.

Happy springtime everyone! Send a dm to inquire about your child joining us for our Learning with Horses class, every Sunday 10-11:30 at Los Gatos Farms.

03/13/2023

Well, rainy weather might have meant our Sensory Saturday Workshop got canceled… but we made the best of our indoor time together at our regular weekly Learning with Horses class!

🧲Today we learned about parts of the hoof, why these body parts are often considered the most important for horses, and why some horses wear shoes and some don’t.

🍀And just because St Patrick’s day is around the corner… students created their own lucky horseshoes!

This class meets weekly, Sundays 10-11:30. Send a dm or comment to see if this class is a good fit for your child!

03/03/2023

🎉Are your kids ready for some sensory fun at a local farm? 🐴🐓🐐

I am teaming up with an Occupational Therapist to host a sensory workshop at Los Gatos Farms on March 11 - pony rides, crafts, and mindfulness & grounding exercises are some of the items on the agenda!

This is for kids ages 5-10, and will be 12:00-1:30pm

$75 per participant

We are capping this event at 8 participants so grab your spot if you want to join in the fun!

Comment “Me” if you’re interested, or send a dm!

02/12/2023

Today we celebrated Valentine’s Day a little early!

❤️Students completed heart-shaped addition and subtraction problems to figure out the secretly coded Valentine that our mini helper, PT, received.

💕We also created heart maps where students made a visual representation of the things, people, and activities they love.

Of course, everyone had a horse somewhere on their heart map. ☺️🐴

Are you interested in joining a Learninf with Horses Class? Drop-ins or membership options available - comment “interested” and we will be in touch!

11/27/2022

Today’s students learned about goal setting, new emotion vocabulary, and the power of positive thinking, all with the help of our horse helpers 🐴❤️ make sure you’re on the email list to be kept in the loop about our weekly Learning with Horses workshops for kids 5-8! Comment for more information.

11/16/2022

Spots open for Sunday!

This next week, students work as a team to piece together a culturally responsive recount of the Thanksgiving story, accompanied by one of our best equine historians 🐴 😉

We will expand reading skills while learning about how different Indigenous cultures view and celebrate Thanksgiving

And finally, we will end with an activity with one of our horses that will help students define gratitude, understand its importance, and learn how to practice it in their daily lives

Details:

Who: kids 5-8
Where: Los Gatos Farms
When: Sunday Oct 16, 10-11:30am (drop off or stick around)
Cost: $45, or monthly membership available at significant discount

We meet weekly, join us once or become a member and have access to weekly classes!

Comment if interested - hope to see you there for some fun and learning!

11/01/2022

This upcoming weekend we are focusing on the history of Indigenous cultures and their relationship to the horse 🍂🐴Here's the plan:

Indigenous Horse History - for a long time, textbooks and historians claimed horses were brought to the Americas by European explorers and settlers... today, we have new information that changes the narrative! We'll learn all about the history of Indigenous horses and create a timeline to show what we know.

Main Skills Addressed: History, Reading Comprehension, Language Arts

Indigenous Horse Painting- When we see pictures and drawings of Indigenous war horses, we often see that the horses are painted. But what do the different markings and designs mean? We'll find out, and paint one of our own!

Main Skills Addressed: History, Art

Who: kids 5-8
Where: Los Gatos Farms
When: Sunday Oct 16, 10-11:30am (drop off or stick around)
Cost: $45, or monthly membership available at $140/month

***We meet weekly! Join us once, or become a member to have access to all classes. Each weekend has a different lesson plan covering a range of academic subjects (following standards for K-2nd grade) and incorporating horse safety, care and handling skills into programming.***

10/18/2022

Come join us at the farm for some Halloween themed fun and learning!

Here’s the agenda for this weekend’s Learning with Horses workshop:

👻Costume Relay Race - it’s a race to see who can get the costumes on and lead the horse back to the team before time runs out!
Main Skills Addressed: Horse Handling and Safety

🪦Spooky Obstacle Course - students create a Halloween themed obstacle course together and take turns doing the course with one of the horses
Main Skills Addressed: Spatial Planning, Gross Motor Skills, Horse Handling and Safety

💀Skeleton Horse - students will work together to create a real skeleton horse by painting on one of our trusty helpers 🐴
Through this activity they will be exposed to the basics of the equine skeletal system!
Main Skills Addressed: Science/Anatomy, Fine and Gross Motor Skills

Who: kids 5-8
Where: Los Gatos Farms
When: Sunday Oct 16, 10-11:30am (drop off or stick around)
Cost: $45, or monthly membership available at significant discount

We meet weekly, join us once or become a member and have access to weekly classes!

Comment if interested - hope to see you there for some spooky fun!

10/16/2022

Thanks Detective PT for helping us solve a Halloween mystery today! And Warren, for being a living word bank full of spooky words for our collaborative scary story… and Charlie for being our “bowling ball” to knock down some math ghosts!

Did you miss class this weekend? Join us next time! We meet weekly, come for a drop in class or become a member to have access to weekly classes at a discount.

Kids 5-8 welcome.

Comment for info!

10/14/2022

Last chance for those who want to join Sunday! Comment if interested

Come join us at the farm for some Halloween themed fun and learning! 👻🎃💀🐴🔎

Here’s the agenda for this weekend’s Learning with Horses workshop:

🎃Spooky Tails - students work together to create a scary horse story, inspired by new vocabulary words displayed on cards placed on one of our horses
(Creative Writing, Vocabulary Development)

🕵️‍♀️Pony Detective - along with one of our best equine detectives 🐴 🔎🕵️‍♀️, we will gather, read and follow clues around the farm to solve a mystery
(Reading Comprehension, Horse Handling)

👻Bowling for Ghosts - students will play a game of “bowling” - students must try to get the horse to knock down as many “ghosts” as possible, then they must solve the math problem on one of the ghosts before passing the horse to the next student!
(Math, Horse Handling)

Who: kids 5-8
Where: Los Gatos Farms
When: Sunday Oct 16, 10-11:30am (drop off or stick around)
Cost: $45, or monthly membership available at significant discount

***We meet weekly! Join us once, or become a member to have access to all classes ☺️ Each weekend has a different lesson plan covering a range of academic subjects (following standards for K-2nd grade) and incorporating horse safety, care and handling skills into programming.***

Comment if interested - hope to see you there for some spooky fun!

10/11/2022

Come join us at the farm for some Halloween themed fun and learning! 👻🎃💀🐴🔎

Here’s the agenda for this weekend’s Learning with Horses workshop:

🎃Spooky Tails - students work together to create a scary horse story, inspired by new vocabulary words displayed on cards placed on one of our horses
(Creative Writing, Vocabulary Development)

🕵️‍♀️Pony Detective - along with one of our best equine detectives 🐴 🔎🕵️‍♀️, we will gather, read and follow clues around the farm to solve a mystery
(Reading Comprehension, Horse Handling)

👻Bowling for Ghosts - students will play a game of “bowling” - students must try to get the horse to knock down as many “ghosts” as possible, then they must solve the math problem on one of the ghosts before passing the horse to the next student!
(Math, Horse Handling)

Who: kids 5-8
Where: Los Gatos Farms
When: Sunday Oct 16, 10-11:30am (drop off or stick around)
Cost: $45, or monthly membership available at significant discount

***We meet weekly! Join us once, or become a member to have access to all classes ☺️ Each weekend has a different lesson plan covering a range of academic subjects (following standards for K-2nd grade) and incorporating horse safety, care and handling skills into programming.***

Comment if interested - hope to see you there for some spooky fun!

10/03/2022

Humans aren’t the only ones that love Fall foods… our horses do too! 🍁🍂🍃🐴🍎🎃🥕

This weekend’s Learning with Horses workshop at the farm focuses on:

Horse Face Markings - students will complete a horse pumpkin craft to take home ( materials provided)

Using the Scientific Method - students will perform an experiment involving feeding horses carrots, apples, and pumpkin

Nutrition - introductory lesson involving these fall foods

Who: kids 5-8
Where: Los Gatos Farms
When: Sunday Oct 9, 10-11:30am (drop off or stick around)
Cost: $45, or monthly membership available at significant discount

Comment if interested - hope to see you there for some fall fun!

09/29/2022

It’s fall and the colors are changing! 🍂🍁🍃 so this weekend our students are learning about different colors and markings of horses by touring the farm and completing a horse craft modeled after their favorite horse here. We are also covering basic horse anatomy and movement, and comparing that to how we move and are made as humans!

This class is 1.5 hours, you may drop off or stick around the farm 🐴☺️
Sunday, Oct 2 at 10:00am
Los Gatos Farms
All materials provided

This group is for kids 5-8

Comment if you’d like to join!

09/08/2022

Learning with Horses is ON this weekend and weather should be much cooler, making for some fun outdoor learning 🌞

Who: kids 5-8
Where: Los Gatos Farms
When: Sundays 10-11:30am, weekly (parents stay or drop off)
What: Enrichment program in which students develop pre-academic/academic skills, life skills, social skills and more within the context of fun and engaging horse-related activities! This is a non riding program.

Reading, writing, math, art, music, science, and more. Every week is a new lesson!

Comment if you want information - we have space for you! ☺️🐎

08/15/2022

Special event end of this month - bring a friend/sibling day at Los Gatos Farms!

Learning with Horses is celebrating its very first month of this outdoor, experiential educational program by helping more people access the joy of learning next to our furry friends 🐴🐴

The last Sunday of the month, your child can bring a friend or sibling to the class for free!

The class is typically for 5-8 year olds but we’re extending the lesson plan to make it appropriate for more ages on this special day

Comment for more info! 🐎❤️