100% Outdoor Exploration All Year Long
Our emergent curriculum incorporates science, critical thinking, math, pre-literacy, and social-emotional development into our outdoor explorations. We believe nature is our best classroom, and that kids learn most through experiential learning outdoors. Together, we lift up logs, count ants, explore our senses, dig in the mud, run through meadows, learn about birds and bugs, walk through historic farms, and wade in creeks. Our program nurtures curiosity and instills respectful and protective love of the natural world in our children.
Amazing Destinations.
Every week our Parent/Child programs feature destinations that explores our open spaces, bay lands, farms, creeks, forest, and more - rain or shine.
Incredible Outdoor Educators.
Our educators have extensive early childhood experience and many are California Naturalist certified. They are energetic and can’t wait to share their love of the outdoors with you and your family.
Year-Round Outdoor Exploration.
We offer small, School-Year classes from September through May, weekly Summer Camps, and specialized Tiny Trek sessions such as Mandarin Immersion, and age-appropriate classes for our Teeny Tiny Trekkers (12 to 24 months).
Tuition Includes:
Classes meet once a week at a different outdoor location for 1.5 hours or 2 hours.
Music, yoga, circle time, storytime, hiking, and exploration.
Entry and parking fees.
Benefits of a Lifetime:
Small, year-round class sizes can foster life-long friendships. We’ve seen it!
Nurtured curiosity and exploration of the natural world lay the foundation for a life-long love of the outdoors in our children.
Critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
Social/emotional growth mindset taught.
Memories to last a lifetime.
Ages: We have age limits in our classes. Please refer to the specific age range of each class intended for registration. Children must be the listed minimum age by the start of class for Summer Camps and by September 1st 2023 for School Year.
We build in makeup classes at the end of the year ONLY if there are class cancelations due to extenuating circumstances such as weather or teacher illness. For families there are no make up, no exception due to travel and illness. This allows the class to remain consistent and facilitates bonding within our groups.
Deposits are non-refundable.
Check out our NorCal Regions.
NORTH PENINSULA
Explore our Tiny Trek Summer Camps and School-Year Classes in the North Peninsula. The North Peninsula region is ideal for the following cities: Burlingame, Hillsborough, Foster City, San Mateo, Redwood Shores, Belmont, San Carlos, Redwood City, and Woodside.
PENINSULA
Explore our Tiny Trek Summer Camps and School-Year Classes in the Peninsula. The Peninsula region is ideal for the following cities: Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Portola Valley, Atherton, Woodside, Redwood City, Los Altos and Mountain View.
South Bay
Explore our Tiny Trek Summer Camps and School-Year Classes in the South Bay. The South Bay region is ideal for the following cities: San Jose, South San Jose, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Willow Glen, Morgan Hill, Gilroy. Mountain View and Los Altos.
Coastside
Explore our Tiny Trek Summer Camps and School-Year Classes on the Coastside. Coastside is ideal for Half Moon Bay and the surrounding areas, or any families who want to spend time exploring the coast.
Mandarin Immersion
Explore our Tiny Treks Summer Camps and School-Year Classes in nearly all our Tiny Treks NorCal regions. Together we foster a love of the outdoors and a love of the Mandarin language.
Fremont
Explore our Tiny Trek Summer Camps and School-Year Classes in the Fremont region. The Fremont region is ideal for the following cities: Fremont, Union City, and Newark.
Teeny Tiny Treks
Explore our Tiny Treks Summer Camps and School-Year Classes in nearly all our Tiny Treks NorCal regions. Together we foster a love of the outdoors for children aged 12 to 24 months.
Meet Tiny Treks Founder & Owner, Pamela Worth!
Pamela Worth founded Tiny Treks in 1997 as a creative alternative to indoor parent-participation programs. Pamela combines her vast child development knowledge and teaching experience to present a dynamic program for young children. She was a mentor teacher, curriculum developer and also led workshops for teachers. Currently she is a parent educator and lectures in many school settings.
Pamela has a Bachelor's in Psychology and Early Childhood Development from the University of Illinois. She holds a Masters Degree in Education and Child Development from National University and has taken extensive coursework beyond her masters in psychology, education and child development. Pam is a certified life and wellness coach. Most importantly, she and her husband have four wonderful children.
All of our teachers use our specially designed curriculum which combines movement, music, projects and the great outdoors. Each of our teachers also incorporates their own magic into each weekly session of our unique and fun-filled program.
“TINY TREKS!!!!! I cannot say enough great things about our experience. The teachers are fantastic, the curriculum is spot on for little ones and parents, the locations are incredible, the owner/staff are super responsive to questions, the price is right!, and my child has never been happier in a class! I’m trying to provide meaningful experiences outdoors with my child while she is young and Tiny Treks is the perfect class to do that!
Our family loves Tiny Treks. I’m partial to the Reggio Emilia philosophy for preschool that emphasizes the outdoors, exploration, and child’s play. I felt like Tiny Treks embodies that philosophy and that the teacher’s do a great job drawing the kids in/ building on the interest of each child.”