Wild Willow Nature Preschool
(3-6yr olds)
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Program Description:
Wild Willow Nature Preschool is a nature- and play-based preschool where children learn through hands-on exploration outdoors. The natural environment becomes the classroom, offering endless opportunities for curiosity, creativity, and discovery.
Our program supports the whole child by meeting preschoolers’ developmental needs while fostering a love of learning and a connection to the world around them. Through playful, age-appropriate experiences in nature, children build confidence, social and emotional skills, physical abilities, and a sense of awe and wonder.
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Dates/Times:
This is a school year long program. Beginning Mid-August through end of May. We follow our local school schedule (Whitley County, IN) including holidays.
Days: Monday/Wednesday/Friday
Times:
AM: 9am-12pm
Location: Giving Gardens of Indiana
479 S. Towerview Dr. Columbia City, IN
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Tuition:
2026/27 Registration: $126 (non-refundable)
This holds a spot for your child for the school year. This must be paid when you register to hold your child’s spot. This will be applied to your tuition when classes begin. If you choose to pull your child from the program, you will NOT be refunded your registration fee.
Tuition for 2026/27- $126 Weekly (36 weeks) or Full Tuition: $4,536 per school year
**See Financial Aid Information page for Sibling Discounts and all tuition assistance options.
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Payment Information:
Giving Gardens of Indiana offers the following payments plans: one lump payment OR weekly. If tuition is not paid in full, a full weekly payment is due at the end of the week. A registration fee will be applied to hold your child’s spot for each program and applied towards your tuition total. For early withdrawals from a program after the school year/semester begins, prorated refunds will be applied according to the time of withdrawal if tuition was paid in full, minus the registration fee.
All bills and billing plans are created in Brightwheel and paid through Brightwheel. A $25 late fee will be applied after 10 days of a missed payment.
If you choose to temporarily withdraw your child from our programming, we will not hold their spot in the program.
We use Brightwheel for our enrollment and billing. When you enroll you will have to make an account.
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“Rote memorization can be an effective way to pass the next test, but without narrative and context, it will be very difficult, inefficient, and tedious to move it into long-term memory. An education separated from life itself is no education at all. The creation of meaning is what human learning really is all about. That’s what makes learning joyful.”
-Teacher Tom
