Our Parent/Child program features nurturing and community-building facilitated weekly sessions for families with children age 0-5, with options in Davis and Sacramento.
Our Winter 2025 Season runs for 11 weeks, from January 6th to March 21st.
Tuition is $350.
Davis
Mondays
-South Fork Preserve-
9 am – 12 pm
1/6 – 3/17
Wednesdays
-South Fork Preserve-
9 am – 12 pm
1/8 – 3/19
Thursdays
-Putah Creek RR-
9 am – 12 pm
1/9 – 3/20
Sacramento
Mondays
-William B Pond-
9 am – 12 pm
1/6 – 3/17
Wednesdays
-William B Pond-
9 am – 12 pm
1/8 – 3/19
Fridays
-William B Pond-
9 am – 12 pm
1/10 – 3/21
A Note on Parking:
For Sacramento sessions, you will need to have a yearly Sacramento Regional Parks pass, which you can purchase for $70, or pay a $7 daily fee to park. You can visit the Sacramento County Regional Parks website to find out more and to purchase a pass. They also have reduced rate options for low-income families.
For Davis sessions, UC Davis has recently instituted paid parking at the Putah Creek Riparian Reserve. The first hour is free, and each additional hour is $1.25. At this time there isn’t a way to purchase a pass of any kind, so please be prepared to pay $2.50 each week (via their parking app). This only applies to PCRR; not South Fork.
Registration is per family. Please register only one child, even if you plan to bring more. Additional supply fees may apply if bringing more than two children.
Reparations & Tuition Assistance
We have a few opportunities to offer tuition assistance for families with financial need (please contact us in advance to apply and receive the coupon code!).
We offer a discounted reparations rate of 40% off standard tuition to families identifying as Black and/or Indigenous to North America, regardless of financial need. You will find the reparations code in the session description on the registration site.
Please note that tuition assistance cannot be combined with the use of homeschool charter funds (but the reparations rate can).
Homeschool Charter Funds
If you are with a homeschool charter, you should be able to use their funds for all of our programs except Dragonfly Teen Naturalists.
We are currently vendors with the following charters:
- The Cottonwood School
- Heritage Peak
- South Sutter
- Sutter Peak
- Visions in Education
- Feather River
- Compass Charter Schools
If you are with a different charter school and would like to request that we become vendors with them, please get in touch!
In order to use charter funds, we require a $25 deposit when registering, which gets subtracted from the amount you request from your school. This deposit serves as the cancelation fee should you cancel.
Each class has a coupon code that you can use to check out in the registration system without paying tuition beyond the $25 deposit. If you use this code, we will expect to receive a purchase order or service voucher within 5 business days of your registration. (Fall season is the only exception, as most charters are not yet open for funding requests at the time registration opens. In this case we expect to receive your purchase order or service voucher before the start of the season.)
The coupon codes for using charter funds are as follows (they are also listed in the registration system under "view more details" for each class option):
Homeschool program: HSCFDAY
After-school program: HSCFPM
Parent/Child program: HSCFPC
Using charter funds for Little Coyotes Forest Kinder is a more complicated matter, so please get in touch with us if you want to do this!
Once you have registered with the coupon code and paid the $25 deposit, just subtract $25 from the total tuition and request that from your charter school. If you are receiving a reparations-based rate, make sure to factor that in as well.
Cancelations & Refunds
If your plans change and you need to cancel, full refunds, minus a $25 per registrant cancelation fee, will be issued until one week before the season begins (i.e. when the season begins on a Monday, the last day to get a refund will be the Sunday of the week prior, or 8 days before the start of the season). We cannot guarantee refunds after that date.