Turn Back Time

01/31/2025

SUMMER CAMP REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

Email from Turn Back Time Inc. Spots will go quickly!   Announcing 2025 Summer Camp Registration We are excited to open registration this evening for our annual 6 week summer camp.  This year we wil

01/29/2025

❄️ This week we had the lovely surprise of snowfall during our school day! It was such a magical opportunity for learning through play!
We were able to fully understand & appreciate what exactly a snowflake is!

We tried to catch some snowflakes with our tongues- discussing how it melted and felt like water!
We read a book all about the intricacies & science behind a snowflake - did you know that they have six sides? Lastly, we used black construction paper to see the snowflakes up close and it was so beautiful! ❄️

The snow also gives us a chance to do our favorite thing on the farm, sledding!

Winter is here and we are soaking it all up! 🛷

01/26/2025

We had the opportunity to discuss gear and programming with Worcester Telegram & Gazette! Check out our article now ❄️

01/24/2025

Resilience! 🧤❄️

The most important thing we are working on!

The past few weeks Mother Nature has really given us the opportunity to build up our resilience in the cold.

Physical and mental resilience are essential to the developing child. Overcoming the discomfort of cold -by wearing the proper clothing and giving our bodies the opportunity to regulate temperature is such a powerful experience.

Outdoor play, even in cold weather, can boost mood and well-being!

These children continue to surprise us with their enthusiasm and love for being outdoors, even when it is really cold!

01/19/2025

Congratulations to our incredible assistant director Miss Veda! This is much deserved and a testament to your hard work! We are so lucky to have you on our team. Your love for nature is truly inspiring!! 💫

Congratulations to Veda Bleau on being A Person to Watch in 2025! As an assistant director at Turn Back Time, a nature based, non profit education center in Paxton, Bleau puts into practice her belief that humanity's connection to nature is is key to saving and changing the world. She finds that helping children form a connection with nature is imperative to teaching them in an authentic way, boosting their overall development and their ability to navigate the world. Bleau is proud that Turn Back Time has been expanding and that the program now offers full day preschool.

Read more about Bleau and the other People to Watch here:
https://thepulsemag.com/2025/01/people-to-watch-2025

Don't forget to grab your tickets to The 2025 People to Watch Party!: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/people-to-watch-2025-tickets-1126445331309?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1KDdo7JzTBpiNyZ1n3yD8kx0bh_D_xacqi-h6pfovGR3zVXqjzaUy_gjs_aem_sYS5eb9VCXzwvajhrW1zVg

01/13/2025

🐾 While hiking through the fresh snowfall in the forest and around the farm, Preschool & Kinderkamp noticed some animal tracks! What an exciting Monday!

The children observed how the bobcat tracks went right down our trails. It was exciting to see how the forest animals love to balance on logs just like we do!

Kinderkamp continued this magical emergent curriculum by using ink pads & bobcat track castings. This allows us to get even more familiar with the bobcats anatomy. In the future we will be very confident in our tracking abilities! 🐾

01/08/2025

❄️ Join us for our annual MLK Winter Minicamp!

Playing outside and moving our bodies in the Winter is truly so magical for kids! From Sledding 🛷, Snow ⛄️ play & farm animals 🐴🐓 the activities are endless!

This is a drop off program appropriate for ages 4-11.
Monday January 20th, 10am- 1pm!

Sign up today using the link below 👇🏼

https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/kznzbvn

01/07/2025

🧊 Ice Play 🧊

Yesterday was a chilly one but these spirited children were ready to play! One thing that you could find all over the farm was Ice! 🥶

It is such a fun sensory experience from cracking to smashing! It engages their imaginations in a multitude of ways. Ice has so many different textures, colors and shapes!

We went indoors for a bit to warm up our souls. Puzzles and building castles were some of our favorite activities! 🏰

Hopefully all of this cold weather can bring us some snow for sledding! ❄️🤞🏼

12/24/2024

🌲 From our Turn Back Time family to yours,

Happy Holidays & Happy New Year! 🎉

We are feeling so grateful this past week from all of the love & support from our community. We are deeply heartfelt! ❤️ May this time bring you Joy & Light ✨

12/22/2024

❄️ Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate the solstice with us at our Annual Holiday Open House!
🌲 It was so heartwarming to gather around the fire together as a community.
🩵 We are especially grateful for our PTO volunteers, thank you for all of your support! If you’re a parent interested in joining, please click the link in our bio for more information.
⭐️ Wishing you and your family Happy Holidays, we’ll see you next year!

12/21/2024

❄️Join us Today! ❄️

Saturday, December 21st to celebrate the Winter Solstice at our annual Holiday Open House! ☀️

This is a FREE event, open to the public! Bring your family and friends and show them around the farm.

🔥We will have a fire going with food available for purchase, winter art activities, a read aloud and 🛷 Sledding!!!

While registration is not required, it helps us have an idea of how many people to expect.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/calendar/001nfP8j83hTsPGrVPbVdxBWQ==

12/18/2024

🫧The best sensory experience- MUD!

It truly is so multifaceted!

It’s ignites a child’s imagination, creativity and problem solving skills! Messy play is SO important in a child’s cognitive development. The connection to nature that mud offers is exactly why we love it so much!

12/12/2024

📚 Kinderkamp and Thursday Homeschool Group had a special visitor today!

Mackenzie May from the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) joined our classes to read us the new book "Farmer Eva's Garden" by Jacqueline Briggs-Martin. The book tells the true story of Briggs-Martin's friend Farmer Eva, who started her own farm on the coast of Massachusetts.
We applied for this program through Massachusetts Agriculture in the Classroom, and we are so grateful to have been one of the schools chosen! Not only did Mackenzie read the book to us, but each child in our class got to take their own copy home.

After we said goodbye to Mackenzie, we created a thank you card we will mail to her!

We are so grateful for this opportunity! 🌾

12/07/2024

What an incredible Holiday Mini Camp!
🔥 Roasting marshmallows over the fire
❄️ Sledding
⭐️ Ornament decorating
🐓 Animal Care with the chickens, bunnies, horses and goats
🍩 Donut & cookie decorating
☃️ Snowpeople Building
🩵 Friendship & community
We hope to see you at our Holiday Open House on Saturday December 21st from 1-3 for even more Solstice & winter fun!

12/05/2024

🌲 This week Kinderkamp got to sew and design their very own Gingerbread!

The creativity was flowing with the endless supply of buttons and fabric! 🧵

🪡 Sewing was such a fun activity that really strengthened our fine motor skills. It was a little tricky to start threading but once they figured it out they were loving the process. We stuffed them and added a backing to bring them to life!

We were so proud of how they came out! ☺️

12/05/2024

Last call for Saturday’s Holiday Mini Camp! It looks like we’ll have some great sledding 🛷❄️☃️

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12/03/2024

🍂 The Tuesday homeschool group started our theme that will take us through to winter break: hibernation!

We have spent the last few weeks making food for ourselves (milling our own rye flour to make rye-based shortbread cookies!), and now we get to think about what kinds of food animals in New England are eating this time of year and how they keep themselves safe during the cold winter months. ❄️

Today, we practiced the scientific method by first discussing the question "what might the wild animals at Turn Back Time eat this time of year?" Then, we did some research in our book for the day, Hibernation, by Carolyn Scarce.

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We took a walk through the woods to observe what is available to the animals, and we made hypotheses about which items the animals would like to eat. As we went, we collected a little of each kind of potential food. We are testing our hypotheses by leaving a buffet of options out in an area of the woods where we know that people don't often go. Next week, we will return to find our conclusion by seeing what has been taken and what is still left out!