Summer Exploration Classes
in "The American Jungle"
Join artist Nicole Duclos and historian Jamie Mariconda on an adventure with Charlie Pierce. We will be hosting live art and hands-on book explorations. Using the living book series “The Adventures of Charlie Pierce” as our spine we will create art, study our natural environment and our state history. Each class will lead us to a new location and give the children chances to learn about our local fauna and flora, pioneer life and survival tricks, ecology and environmentalism, economics and geography without ever opening a textbook. Parents are welcome to observe the classes or take some much needed “me time” exploring the locations on their own.
June 21st
Dubois Park
10:00-12:00 Book Club and inspired Art
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Family Activity - dip netting, nature walk, and swimming.
Students will participate in hands-on explorations, activities, and games, related to The American Jungle pages 1-48. They will follow Charlie Pierce's footsteps in a scavenger hunt around the Dubois Pioneer House and shell midden. The Jupiter Lighthouse and landscape will be the inspiration for their art lesson.
Cost: $20
July 5th
Riverbend Park
10:00-12:00 Book Club and inspired Art
12:00 Lunch
12:30-2:30 Archery and Nature Class
Students will participate in hands-on explorations, activities, and games related to The American Jungle pages 49-101. They will be exploring and investigating in the actual 'American Jungle" so they should dress appropriately. The character Tiger Bowlegs introduces Charlie Pierce to his people, the Seminoles. We will observe the symbolism and codes of Seminole Patterns and create our own.
Cost: 1/2 day $20, Full day $35
July 19th
Boynton Inlet
10:00-12:00 Book Club and inspired Art
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Family activity- Dip netting, swimming and sea animal identification
Students will create egret paintings of their own. Students will participate in hands-on explorations, activities, and games related to the first half of the Last Egret and the end of The American Jungle.
Cost: $20
August 2nd
Arthur R. Marshall, National Wildlife Refuge
10:00-12:00 Book Club and inspired Art
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Family activity-
Students will participate in hands-on explorations, activities, and games related to the end of The Last Egret with an emphasis on preserving our natural rookeries and the impacts of our fashion choices. They will hone their observational skills through bird watching and sketching native birds.
Cost: $20
August 16th
Loggerhead Park Pavilion
10:00-12:00 Book Club and inspired Art
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Family activity- Beach clean up and swimming
Students will participate in hands-on explorations, activities, and games related to the Barefoot Mailman pages 1-80. The students will create their own coastal map art.
Cost: $20
August 30th
Riverbend Park
10:00-12:00 Book Club and inspired Art
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Family activity
12:30-2:30 Archery and Nature Class
Students will participate in hands-on explorations, activities, and games related to the Barefoot Mailman pages 80-150. Spoilers-the sugar mill will be a focus of book club and the beautiful banyan tree that Charlie and Lily use for hiding places will inspire a sunset banyan painting.
Cost: 1/2 day $20, Full day $35
Links to the Adventures of Charlie Pierce Books
American Jungle @ PBC Library
The Last Egret @ PBC Library
The Barefoot Mailman @ PBC Library
Purchase from the author
If interested in a read aloud version by the teachers please let us know. These books are wonderful at bringing our local history to life and lighting a spark of curiosity. You can read the books as a family or they can read on their own. Either way, local landmarks will become part of your family conversation for years to come.
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