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Summer Camps in San Rafael: A Parent's Guide
San Rafael sits at the center of Marin County, and its camp landscape reflects that. Within twenty minutes of downtown you can find nature camps on a state park beach, an indoor climbing gym off Smith Ranch Road, a Shakespeare company with its own theater on Fourth Street, and full-day community center camps in Marinwood and Terra Linda. Who runs them is just as varied: one-person outdoor schools built by a single educator, longtime North Bay nonprofits like Youth in Arts, which has taught in t
Sunbeam Nature School: A Two-Acre Farm School for Petaluma Families
Sunbeam sits at 1002 Bodega Avenue, a few minutes from downtown Petaluma and a world away from a fluorescent-lit classroom. It is a working farm and a living lab school at the same time. Children grow food, tend animals, build with loose parts, and spend nearly every hour of the day under open sky. For North Bay parents looking for kids classes in Petaluma that do not involve sitting still, Sunbeam is one of the most distinctive options in Sonoma County. A Working Farm with a Heart for Communi
Summer Camps in Mountain View: A Parent's Guide
On a July morning, small kayaks push off the dock at Shoreline Lake while, a few miles south, campers at Deer Hollow Farm feed the animals before the trails warm up. Summer camp in Mountain View covers more ground than most parents expect, and this guide walks through it. A Parent's Guide to Summer Camps in Mountain View Mountain View sits in an interesting spot for a camp summer. It has the tech-corridor energy of the South Bay, with robotics and math academies a short walk from the Castro S
Snails & Turkey Tails: A Small Outdoor Nature School for Marin Families
Snails & Turkey Tails is the work of one educator, and her story is worth knowing before you read a single program description. Teacher Liesha grew up in Illinois, where, as she writes on her site, most of life happened outside. Bikes for hours, creeks, forts, invented games, and long summers on her grandparents' farm running through fields and helping in the garden. As a teenager in Girl Scouts she organized a summer camp for neighborhood kids in her own backyard and found out how much she love
Music Together Rivertown: Family Music Classes in a Historic Petaluma Schoolhouse
Music Together Rivertown is the work of one teacher, and her path to Petaluma runs through more than a decade of North Bay family music. Liz, the center's director and teacher, began teaching Music Together in 2013, when her oldest son was a toddler. As her bio puts it, she "has had the privilege of creating community through music-making with dozens of families in Marin and Sonoma County." She comes to the work with a background in theater, dance, storytelling, music, Waldorf education, and art
Summer Camps in Palo Alto: A Parent's Guide
Palo Alto packs an unusual amount of summer into a small footprint. Within a few miles you can find a science museum with live animals, an art school in a historic downtown building, tennis courts and swim clubs, a nature preserve in the foothills, and dozens of independent studios running week-long programs. Camps here are run by a mix of people: city recreation staff, long-standing nonprofits, neighborhood studios, and national programs that set up each June at local schools. For a family, th