Our Day: Outdoor Adventure and Play
We believe that children learn critical skills through imaginative play, need a lot of space and time to move their bodies, and develop better both cognitively and physically with access to the outdoors. A wave of research has emerged recently with findings that support these claims.
We get outside to play as much as possible, with at least a full hour every day at lunch time. Our non-traditional playground is really a blank slate of a backyard, with an open field, shade trees, and a bit of woods. We are constantly amazed by the elaborate stories our students spin there, the unique observations they make, and the complex games they invent and sustain--using bamboo, sticks, rocks, pine needles, dirt, ant colonies, acorns, and whatever else nature supplies.
Special activities like gardening and raising chickens also bring us outside, as well as group games and sports, and we get a chance to explore our region's beautiful natural settings on many of our warm-weather field trips.
We get outside to play as much as possible, with at least a full hour every day at lunch time. Our non-traditional playground is really a blank slate of a backyard, with an open field, shade trees, and a bit of woods. We are constantly amazed by the elaborate stories our students spin there, the unique observations they make, and the complex games they invent and sustain--using bamboo, sticks, rocks, pine needles, dirt, ant colonies, acorns, and whatever else nature supplies.
Special activities like gardening and raising chickens also bring us outside, as well as group games and sports, and we get a chance to explore our region's beautiful natural settings on many of our warm-weather field trips.
