Airie Clubs
Expedition
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Ages: 5 - 8 years by 8/15/26
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Day: Thursdays
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Time: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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Intention: To foster S.T.E.M. knowledge and provide meaningful literacy experiences through nature-immersive exploratory studies.
Airie's Expedition Club offers homeschoolers a hands-on S.T.E.M. class immersed in various ecosystems near Clarksville, TN.
Wild Runners
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Ages: 5 - 10 years
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When: Tuesdays
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Running Season: Resumes in Spring 2027
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Time: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
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Intention: An after-school running club to learn how to navigate trails with speed, agility, confidence, and friends!
Airie's Wild Runners is an after-school running club for children who enjoy challenging their bodies, minds, and spirits.
Artichoke Hearts
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Ages: 6 -8 years
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When: Third Sunday each month
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Time: 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
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Intention: To enhance literacy development through the bond of reading.
Airie's Book Club is a monthly group intended for children and parents to strengthen literacy skills through guided discussions and play-based activities.
Expedition Club
A Nature-immersive S.T.E.M. and Literacy Class
Give your child a weekly adventure immersed in nature! By exploring Middle Tennessee ecosystems, your child can build real-world skills and learn alongside a small community of adventurous peers.
Each Thursday, children explore local creeks, forests, farms, and caves alongside our Forest School-certified teachers, who have degrees in science and years of experience teaching children how to safely enjoy exploring the Great Outdoors.
Your child will build confidence, resilience, and real-world skills through:
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Hiking & Exploration
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Developmentally Appropriate Challenges
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Weather Appreciation
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Literacy Through Journaling Field Notes
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Mindfulness
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Cooperative Play & Problem-Solving
Our expeditions are drop-off classes designed for homeschool students seeking meaningful, nature-based learning experiences.
Did you know that Airie's Expedition Club:
✔ Enhances STEM, Literacy, P.E., and Life Skills
✔ Encourages Mixed-age, Social Learning
✔ Requires No Prep for Parents . . . outside of acquiring gear.
✔ Provides Screen-free, Real-world Learning
Through these experiences, children build confidence, independence, and respect for the natural world while forming meaningful friendships with other homeschool adventurers.
Airie's Expedition Club is a year-long class with rolling enrollment.
Wild Runners
Run Wild. Run Free.
What if running wasn’t simply about speed...but also about connections?
There’s something different about a child who learns to run through the wild...
"I grew up chasing my father’s cross country team through cornfields, winding woods, and the rolling sand of the Indiana Dunes—always just a few steps behind, always reaching, always becoming stronger without even realizing it. That love of running carried me into road races and eventually onto my own cross country team, where I discovered not just endurance, but confidence, resilience, and joy."
~ Coach Kylene
Now, as a trained educator, Coach Kylene blends that lived experience with her background in teaching to guide children in a way that is developmentally thoughtful, encouraging, and deeply connected to nature. The Airie Wild Runners Club is more than a running group—it’s an invitation for your child to build strength, confidence, and a lifelong love of movement in the places where childhood feels most alive.
Each one-hour practice, your child will have the opportunity to:
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Learn how to run safely and confidently on natural trails
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Build endurance through play, games, and exploration
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Practice balance, agility, and body awareness
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Discover the rhythm of running in nature
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Encourage teamwork, confidence, and joy in movement
Airie's Wild Runners Club is a season-long membership with rolling registration.
All experience levels are welcome.
Rain or Shine...but never lightning.
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3:30 p.m. .................. Arrival
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Warm-Up in the Adventure Playground
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Guided Stretches
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Practice Running on Trails
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4:30 p.m. .................. Farewell
Children must always have a water bottle and athletic gear for running.
Wild Runners Practice
Book Club's Monthly Meeting
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1:55 p.m. .......... Arrival
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Campfire Meeting
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Greetings & Announcements
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Interactive Book Discussion
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Play-based Literacy Activity
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Reflection Meeting
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4:00 p.m. ........... Farewells
Artichoke Hearts
A Read-Aloud Club for Children and Parents
At what age should I stop reading aloud to my child?
Almost as big a mistake as not reading aloud to children is stopping too early!
Did you know that each person has a decoding level (reading) and a listening level (read aloud)? All children have different levels of readiness for each element of literacy.
This club is focused on pairing these levels together to enhance everyone's literacy and open up windows to other worlds of exploration. Each two-hour meeting will have opportunities to discuss the shared book and experience literacy-strengthening activities, which may include:
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Collaborative Discussion: Dive deeper into the meaning of the group stories with open-ended questions guided by Ms. Kylene.
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Literacy Activity: Play-based literacy activities that are targeted practice to improve comprehension, background knowledge, and vocabulary.
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Book Buddies: Partner reading based on reading and listening levels
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Literacy Newsletter: Filled with play-based literacy ideas to enjoy over the next month.
The fire of literacy is ignited by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.
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Airie's Artichoke Hearts club is a semester-long membership with rolling enrollment.
