Welcome

Our facility is open on weekdays from 9am to 4pm and on weekends from 10am to 2pm.

As always, our grounds and trails featuring self-guided tours are free and open daily from dawn until dusk.

Wonder Bugs On the Road

THIS PROGRAM IS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PLAY & LEARN

Wonder Bugs On the Road is offered through Madison Metropolitan School District’s (MMSDs) Play & Learn (PaL) program. Every month, we offer the program at no cost to PaL families at each PaL site.

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Program Objectives

To use nature as a teaching tool to:

Provide opportunities for young children throughout our community to engage with the natural world without the barriers of cost, language, or transportation
Build on physical abilities and cognitive skills, sparking curiosity and better preparing for preschool settings
Foster a sense of wonder and appreciation for the natural world, leading to admiration and respect for the environment

Aldo Leopold Nature Center is at Aldo Leopold Nature Center.

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Every month, a Welcoming Schools e-newsletter makes its rounds at ALNC. This newsletter, written in-house by Ms. Ana and based on lessons from Welcoming Schools, shares, activities, talking points, and book recommendations that help to make our space inclusive. This month's theme is Embracing All Families and it’s a topic that comes up frequently as kids learn about each other. Sometimes children have a lot of questions when they engage with families that don’t look like their own. It’s important to have conversations with kids to help address the reality that not all kids experience life in the same way that they do.This month's activity encourages kids to reflect about what their family looks like. You can do this at home or in the classroom by having children draw a heart and then ask them to write or draw all the people in their lives who love them. Some great books that align with the theme and inspire conversation around family compositions include:‘And Tango Makes Three’ by Justin Richardson, lifting up families with two dads*‘Two Homes, One Heart’ by Jessica Young, lifting up families where the parents are separated‘A Tale of Two Mommies’ by Vanita Oelschalger, lifting up families with two moms‘Monkey Not Ready for the Baby’ by Marc Brown, lifting up families about to welcome a new baby‘A Family is a Family is a Family’ by Sara O'Leary, lifting up all types of families*Families come in all shapes and sizes and, at ALNC, we embrace them all! *Books that can be found on the 2022-2023 PEN America Index of School Book Bans. Photo: Aldo Leopold Nature Center#WelcomingSchools #Families #WIEnviroEd #NatureIsEverywhere #NatureIsForEveryone #EveryBodyOutside #ReadBannedBooks ...

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Our facility will be closed on Thursday, July 4th, and Friday, July 5th in observance of the Fourth of July holiday. Our building will reopen to the public at 10am on Saturday, July 6th.

Our facility is open on weekdays from 9am to 4pm and on weekends from 10am to 2pm.

Wonder Bugs On the Road

THIS PROGRAM IS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PLAY & LEARN

Program Objectives

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Aldo Leopold Nature Center

Our facility will be closed on Thursday, July 4th, and Friday, July 5th in observance of the Fourth of July holiday.
Our building will reopen to the public at 10am on Saturday, July 6th.