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Outer Range Outdoor Education Joyful, shared experiences created to awaken and inspire. Montrose and Olathe Schools

Outer Range is a PreK-12 public school.

More from Woods Lake! An evening spent exploring ecotones, the transition zones where two ecosystems meet, creating uniq...
10/02/2026

More from Woods Lake! An evening spent exploring ecotones, the transition zones where two ecosystems meet, creating unique habitats and opportunities to observe the diversity of life. Learning to look a little closer and discover the connections within our local landscape.

3rd and 4th grade took off on an expedition to Woods Lake!As the rain cleared in the late evening, the mountains reveale...
10/02/2026

3rd and 4th grade took off on an expedition to Woods Lake!

As the rain cleared in the late evening, the mountains revealed themselves—golden aspens, cool mountain air, and a beautiful sunset at over 9,000 feet.

For some students, it was their first expedition, and they quickly put their community living skills into practice. Others focused on supporting their peers, reflecting on their own growth, and building their fishing skills.

We spent the evening fishing, exploring, connecting with one another, and getting to know our local ecosystem. And you know it’s a great expedition when Tiff makes pancakes!

4th and 5th graders are exploring local ecosystems through small-group field trips. They’ll visit a variety of nearby ha...
09/29/2026

4th and 5th graders are exploring local ecosystems through small-group field trips. They’ll visit a variety of nearby habitats, observing plants, animals, soil, water, weather, and other features that make each place unique. As they explore, they’ll take detailed notes, sketch what they see, ask questions, and look for patterns across each location.

Students will also consider how living things depend on one another and how people interact with the environments around them. They’ll practice using evidence to support their ideas, compare observations with their classmates, and think about how each ecosystem changes over time.

Back on campus, they’ll organize their findings, refine their ideas, and work together to create a field guide for the community. The guide will highlight the ecosystems they studied, share their discoveries, and invite others to notice and appreciate the natural world in their own backyard.

09/16/2026

After a big rain, our 4th graders did what they apparently already knew how to do: they made a river.

They did this same thing as kindergartners, and seeing them return to the same kind of play four years later is pretty incredible.

The difference now isn’t just in what they built. It’s in the language we heard while they were building it:

“Let’s try this.”

“What if we move the bridge here?”

“It’s overflowing because…”

“We need to redirect the water.”

“Wait, what happened when we changed that?”

They were collaborating, negotiating, testing ideas, moving and redesigning a bridge, redirecting water, noticing patterns, solving problems, and talking their way through the science and engineering of it all.

And underneath all of it was design in its most authentic form. Notice a problem. Imagine a possibility. Try something. Learn from what happens. Make a change. Try again.

Same rain. Same muddy joy. Same impulse to build something together.

But four years of growing, learning, wondering, and practicing together has changed the way they approach the work.

This is the kind of learning that sticks. 💙🌊

Today, our students worked as a collective to complete a complex engineering task, one that required them to rely on one...
08/19/2026

Today, our students worked as a collective to complete a complex engineering task, one that required them to rely on one another, navigate challenges, and figure things out together. Our focus was on what it means to strengthen the community around you: to look beyond yourself and your closest friends, notice what the group needs, and take responsibility for the kind of community you want to be part of.

At the end of the day, we asked:

What did you have to do today that you’ve learned to do better as an Outer Range student?

Our students said they had to:

• Communicate clearly and speak up when things weren’t going well.
• Listen, pay attention, and really hear other people.
• Collaborate, compromise, and work together.
• Problem solve when things didn’t go as planned.
• Stay flexible and work through hard things together.
• Be okay with failing, making mistakes, and trying again.
• Learn from mistakes instead of being discouraged by them.
• Stay curious and keep learning.
• Work toward being more efficient.
• Recognize that sometimes, even when you lose, you win because you learned something new.

These are the skills that help a group become a community, and the kind of growth we hope students carry with them far beyond Outer Range.

Last week our third and fourth grade students headed to the North Rim of the Black Canyon with a forecast full of rain a...
05/10/2026

Last week our third and fourth grade students headed to the North Rim of the Black Canyon with a forecast full of rain and cold, so we packed and prepared for tough conditions. Instead, we were lucky to get blue skies and a beautiful overnight together.

Students lifted each other up with encouragement, chose asking over telling, communicated through challenges, and collaborated every step of the way. An epic way to close the year.

Good luck to our middle and high school crew heading to the Grand Canyon next. Wishing them a joyful shared experience together as they connect and explore along the way.

That’s how you start a week! Thanks for hosting our Kindergarten Red Foxes today.
05/04/2026

That’s how you start a week! Thanks for hosting our Kindergarten Red Foxes today.

You know you go to Outer Range when…you argue over who GETS TO DO the dishes! Congrats to our second grade cohort for cr...
04/24/2026

You know you go to Outer Range when…you argue over who GETS TO DO the dishes! Congrats to our second grade cohort for crushing their first expedition.

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