Wild Sky Adventure Learning is a Saskatchewan-based non-profit organization run by parents, teachers, and nature lovers. We are dedicated to creating experiential learning opportunities on the land & under the sky for children and adults. We facilitate learning that is adventurous, guided by curiosity, and exploratory in nature.

Our History
We find it important to honour the legacy of the Saskatchewan Boreal Forest Learning Centre, the organization whose footsteps we follow in, and whose vision we carry forward as we blaze a new trail in land-based learning in Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan Boreal Forest Learning Centre worked for over a decade to bring children into the forest, and the forest into the classroom, to build the extensive trail system at Ness Creek, and to educate on the wonders and importance of the boreal forest ecosystem. We carry the Sask BFLC’s strong legacy of deep reverence for the land - forest & prairie and all in between - into our work as Wild Sky Adventure Learning.

Wild Sky Adventure Learning is in a phase of steady growth and transformation!
We are currently focused on creating a robust organization that offers
consistent programming in Saskatoon; programming which is responsive
to the needs of parents, and creates a reliable, fun nature-based
learning atmosphere for children.

We are looking for inspired, resourceful community members to join our non-
profit board and help us carry out our mandate of providing meaningful, accessible
nature-based learning. The need for this in the community is there, and we want to grow our
organization capacity to meet that need in Saskatoon & around the province.

Our Current Board of Directors is:

Bree Chalifour - Board Chair and Treasurer

More info to follow

Hannah Temple - Secretary

My name is Hannah Temple and I was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Treaty Six Territory. I had an early introduction to the boreal forest and developed a deep appreciation for the land.  

I have been a Wild Sky board member for two years. Currently, my position on the board is the secretary. My continued commitment to the board is due to the positive life lessons I learned while being outside, in youth, and adulthood.

Alice Decloedt

My name is Alice and I was born and raised in St. Albans, Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. I was introduced to Saskatchewan in 2007.

I have been a Wild Sky board member for 1 year and before that I worked as Executive Director, since 2020. My role on the board is working to provide high quality, low cost, inclusive programming.

Dave Krebs

More info to follow

OUR PEOPLE

Wild Sky employs and contracts a wide community of instructors and volunteers. Our team is constantly seeking to improve, learn and provide the best educational practice. Below are just a handful of the faces you might encounter during a Wild Sky program. As an organization we adhere to a strict Safeguarding/Child Protection Policy. All staff and instructors complete vulnerable sector background checks.

Kyle Syverson is a teacher, dancer, lover of language, and the outdoors. Kyle spent her childhood in Prince Albert, doing gymnastics and ballet and enjoying Emma Lake. She has traveled extensively in Latin America, and hence is fluent in Spanish, and also French. She completed an Honours B.A. in Languages and Linguistics at the U of S. Kyle has taught conversational Spanish and creative movement for kids through various community associations. She has instructed dance and gymnastics since she was 13, and currently teaches Ballet and movement improvisation to adults. For the past 10 years, Kyle has worked for the Greater Saskatoon Catholic School System as an educational assistant, working with many different types of learners and teachers. She also is co-director of KSAMB Dance Company, specializing in outdoor dance, and she dances with Free Flow Dance Theatre. She enjoys facilitating dance for differently abled people, teaching workshops for seniors’ residences, SaskAbilities and Saskatchewan Alternative Initiatives. Kyle loves trees (especially Linden and Tamarack) and the river, and growing raspberries, and singing, and spotting bunnies and mink. She feels very fortunate to be able to explore and grow with the Wild Sky community!!

Laura Hosaluk is of Saskatchewan Settler descent. Her ancestry travels back in four directions; Ukraine, Poland, Scotland, England and arrived here upon Treaty 6 and Treaty 4 Territory. Born in 1983 in Saskatoon, Hosaluk had the opportunity to absorb Arts and Crafts not only from her father, but the many rural and international craftspeople that worked beside him. Craft became Hosaluk’s culture, one that reflected a mutual interrelation (earth-human dynamic) of working with the earth’s resources with ones hands to make beautiful things.

Her creative practice is colorful, energetic, and optimistic, spanning from painting, ceramics, found objects, and land art. She is passionate about collaboration as her arts education is a bi-product of that learning. In 1992, at the age of nine, she began participating in the EMMA International Collaboration. An innovative workshop model for unstructured creative collaboration between artists working in traditional craft and those engaged in contemporary method. This experience encouraged Hosaluk to reach beyond a usual art practice and explore medium, technique and subject matter, in an environment free of expectation to outcome.

Laura spent 6 months as an Arts Intern with children ages 3-10 at the Mountain School, in Bellevue, ID, USA, 2008. This Waldorf inspired training founded by Kathryn Woods, allowed her to connect with the Saskatoon community, in 2009 -2011 as she began to serve as The Boys and Girls Clubhouse Director for Confederation, after-school program.

Laura has presented Mixed emotions at the Saskatchewan Preschool Information and Service Registry (PIRS) Conference in 2017 and 2018. Her role supported preschool teachers and daycare workers as she led break-out sessions that used creativity as a tool to explore Mixed Emotions. A collection of colourful and energetic activities that help engage young children in recognizing, thinking and talking about emotions, an important step in developing emotional health.

Hello, my name is Cindy Wright. I am a watercolour artist, photographer, wife, mother, farm owner, and outdoor adventurer. My work with children spans from the time I was a teenager to today. I’ve provided childcare at a young age, to experience as assistant teacher at Montessori School of Regina as well as teaching art classes to Outreach teens and homeschooled children in Alberta.
I grew up in the great outdoors with animals and nature all around me. I was raised on a ten-acre hobby farm in Furdale, south of Saskatoon. At a very young age I cleared out a special camp spot of the native Poplar tree patch near our house. It was my first campground! Building shelters, sleeping outdoors and fires are all second nature to me. I would spend time in the summers riding my horse along with my dog adventuring to banks of the South Saskatchewan River.
I’ve continued this lifestyle through hiking trips with my outdoorsy husband, and feeling very fortunate since 2003, to have found a core group of six women who go on annual canoe trips where we are self guided on seven-to-fifteen-day excursions. A number of these have been fly- in trips and often involve whitewater rapids. I’ve taken training as a volunteer Search and Rescue worker in the early 2000’s and am constantly exposed to my husband’s preparation as a Master Trainer to all levels of Ground Search and Rescue workers.
I have come full circle as I an adult; I again have my own campsite and it too is in the middle of a Poplar tree patch! Currently you can find me working in my Art Studio with watercolours and in regular practice of fire building and Bushcraft skills at the campsite on our eighty acres west of Saskatoon.
I most look forward to empowering children to learn and discover in the outdoors just as I did growing up.

Heather Toews is passionate about the outdoors and is always up for an adventure. She loves to share her joy of nature with children, be that with her two kids and their friends or by sharing experiences with children in nature-based preschool and kindergarten programs. Heather is a substitute EA with the Saskatoon Public School System, co-leads a Sparks Unit in the northwest end of Saskatoon, and enjoys volunteering weekly at her children’s nature-based elementary school. 

Heather was born and raised in Saskatoon and completed her B.Sc. (Hon) in Land Use and Environmental Studies and Biology from the University of Saskatchewan. She travelled extensively in her twenties and lived in Montreal for a year and a half while she completed her M.Sc. in Integrated Water Resources Management from McGill University. Following her graduate studies, she returned to Saskatoon to be near family and work as an Environmental Scientist and Ecologist. After meeting her loving husband, she set down roots for good and had two children.   

As a past Vegetation Ecologist, Heather loves plants and sharing her knowledge and passion with children and adults alike.  Her backyard native plant patch, with over 30 grassland species, brings her much joy. She continues to add species by collecting seeds from the native prairie hills along Lake Diefenbaker, where she spends her summer weekends sailing with her family. Heather also loves birds and spent one summer studying Northern Flickers in BC, sleeping in a tent by night and climbing a ladder up to nest cavities by day to study and tag fledglings.  

Prior to building her family,  highlights from Heather’s adventures included volunteering with a Sea Turtle Protection organization in Greece where she lived in a camp by the beach, protecting nests by day, assisting in tagging nesting turtles at night; diving and sailing in the Caribbean; solo bicycling and camping from Vancouver to the Mexican border; and exploring Central America, mostly in Guatemala where she climbed to a the highest peak in Central America.  

Chloe Hunchak is a settler of mixed heritage born and raised in Saskatchewan and proud to call the prairies her home. She is passionate about the healing properties of nature and believes in getting as close as possible to our ancient human/animal roots. She has recently completed a BA in French and is excited to be attending the University of Alberta for the Masters of Occupational Therapy in fall 2023, where she hopes to inspire in others the benefit of moving one's body and engaging in fulfilling activities of all kinds for one's well-being. She has worked as an educational assistant with Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools for the past four years and is currently employed as a childcare support worker for children in the foster system. Chloe enjoys reading everything from mental health self help books to classic literature, loves team sports and dance of all kinds and writing poetry. She loves coming up with fun, out of the box ideas for kids to entertain themselves and is so excited to work in an alternative, nature friendly preschool program at Wild Sky!

My passion for teaching began in 2009 when I enrolled in the College of Kinesiology at the University of Saskatchewan, with an emphasis on completing my degree in Physical Education Studies and transferring into the College of Education. After convocating in 2014, I have worked as a classroom teacher, release teacher, and currently teacher substitute within and around Saskatoon. I have a background in working with individuals of varying levels of abilities and am currently enrolled in the post-degree certificate program in Ed. Psych and Special Ed. at the U of S. I am a former member of the U of S Huskies Track & Field Team and although I no longer train/compete (year round), I have become a coach for Riversdale Athletics Club, where I have had the pleasure of coaching for the past 6 years. Since I was a kid, I have enjoyed spending time outdoors. Whether it was biking with my friends, playing baseball, golfing, or spending time at the lake, I would always seem to make it home after the streetlights had already come on. In my spare time you can either find me at the gym, golfing, playing my guitars, or walking my wonderful dog, Sophie. I am excited to be a new member of the Wild Sky family and look forward to continuing my learning of land-based education.

My name is Dylan Griffin and I currently work as a substitute teacher in Saskatoon. I love playing sports, listening to music, exploring outside and hanging out with friends. I am passionate about being a lifelong learner and finding new information in a variety of spaces. I enjoy meeting new people and can always have a conversation with anyone. I look forward to having an amazing summer with my Wild Sky colleagues and kids!

Hello my name is Graeme Harrison. I am a special education/ home economics teacher who also coaches track and field. I am a former huskies cross country athlete. I have a bunch of interesting talents such as beatboxing, walking on my hands and bird calls. My past time consists of travelling, running, cooking, gardening, watching my wife Michelle compete in hurdles, and walking my toy poodle.