Learning at Butler
The Butler Campus is an incomparable space for learning, offering a rich supplement to the more traditional classroom space available at Lyman Circle. Our commitment to environmental stewardship finds expression in dynamic interdisciplinary curricula that use the Butler Campus in exceptional ways.
Whether the 7th grade is involved in a 2-week archeological dig or the 1st and 8th grades are collaborating in writing a story in the Magic Treehouse, the campus is alive with the sound of children learning. Older girls develop leadership skills on the Adventure Course, while young children delight in the joy of a Magic Treehouse Summer Camp.
As Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Nature Deficit Disorder reminds us -
Nature inspires creativity in a child by demanding visualization
and the full use of the senses. Given a chance, a child will
bring the confusion of the woods, wash it in the creek,
turn it over to see what lives on the unseen side of that confusion.Nature can frighten a child, too, and this fright serves a purpose.
In nature, a child find freedom, fantasy, and privacy; a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace… at a deeper level, nature gives itself to children – for its own sake not as a reflection of a culture.
At this level, inexplicable nature provokes humility.
