The Garden Classroom 2023/ 2024
Hello classroom gardeners! Thank you for joining us as we kick off another year of garden learning together. You’ll receive a reminder (and a session
Hello classroom gardeners! Thank you for joining us as we kick off another year of garden learning together. You’ll receive a reminder (and a session
Association of Early Childhood Educators Newfoundland and Labrador: Preparing Outdoor Spaces For Imaginative & Risky Play Thanks to everyone who joined in from Newfoundland and
Thank you to everyone who joined Emma and I today! It’s always such a pleasure to share our joy for outdoor play and learning. The
Thanks to everyone from the The Advanced Learning Academy for such a warm welcome today! What a joy it is to share my love for
Thanks for a great day of being together outdoors! I hope you all have new ideas and thinking about how to plan for and enact
Thank you for joining me today for our session exploring how we might transition to teaching outdoors. The following blog posts and resources might be
Thank you to everyone who supported our webinar on April 19 in support of the Wild About Vancouver Festival! We raised several hundred dollars that
Session Six: September 27, 2022 Thanks to everyone who joined me through this series! What a pleasure it has been to learn alongside you all.
Thanks to everyone from the The Valley School for such a warm welcome today! What a joy it is to share my love for unstructured
Thanks to Grauer and Spul’u’kwuks elementary schools for having me join your professional learning today! The following blog posts may be helpful as you build
Back to school means back to nature. If you’ve got a class of kids, or just a few in your home needing to get outside,
Gardening with kids opens up a wide opportunity to try new veggies and to grow your own favourites. Peas are an easy and reliable crop
Having a first baby is a big deal. A really big deal. I remember with my first not wanting a baby shower because the thought
Music Is Not My Strongest Subject But… Of all the curricular content I teach as an elementary school educator, music is likely my weakest subject
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Got bored kids? As every teacher can tell you, there is a phenomenon that occurs in September called “summer slide”. It reflects the loss of academic learning that occurs over
Loose parts are found or natural objects that have no specific instructions for play and are highly valued for their imaginative and creative affordances for play. For children who are
For generations, the use of tools was a rite of passage and a normal part of any child’s growth and development. Somewhere along the way, perhaps because of our focus
Learning in a garden offers a wide range of multi-sensory experiences and practical knowledge building. Gardening with kids keeps me tuned in to the lesser known little factoids about plants
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