Competence
Real skills, mastered slowly, build a quiet inner confidence.
Hands & Heart · Ages 3–8
Real Work & Crafts
Baking, play dough, and meaningful handicrafts — work with the hands that grows competent, confident children.
Baking, play dough, and meaningful handicrafts — work with the hands that grows competent, confident children.
Children long to be useful. Our days include baking, play dough, watercolor, and meaningful handicrafts — often gifts the children make for others — woven through the morning so they leave knowing their hands can do beautiful things.
- Weekly baking with the children
- Play dough and other sensory handwork
- Watercolor and seasonal handicrafts
- Meaningful keepsakes and gifts for others
Benefits
What children gain.
Patience
Slow work teaches the long, calm attention modern life rarely does.
Care for things
Children who make things care for what they have.
A Glimpse
Inside our days.
Our Process
How to enroll.
A simple, unhurried path from your first hello to your child's first morning circle.
- 01
Reach Out
Send a note or give us a call — we'll listen first.
- 02
Visit a Morning
Wander the forest, meet the children, see the rhythm.
- 03
Choose Your Rhythm
Flexible schedules — full or part-time, agreed upon at enrollment.
- 04
Begin & Belong
Settle in to a quiet, ordered, joyful day.
Come spend a quiet morning with us.
Visits are unhurried — bring your child, wander the forest.
Program Questions
About Real Work & Crafts
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4-Day Program · Ages 3–8
Wondergarten Days
Our flagship rhythm: a full, unhurried school week built around the Wondergarten curriculum.
Outdoor Learning · Ages 3–8
Nature & Outdoor
Hours outside every day — through every season, in nearly every weather.
Studio Days · Ages 3–8
Beauty & Art
Children are exposed to a feast of beautiful ideas through art and music appreciation as well as hands-on practice with different art styles and musical instruments.
Reserve a visit
Come see a morning at St. Emmelia.
We open the doors a few times each season for families considering enrollment. Wander the forest, meet the children, and ask anything you'd like.
- (985) 290-0129
- stemmeliahomeschool@gmail.com
- Kiln-Delisle Road - Kiln, Mississippi