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Best Books About Rain
If you are going to teach outdoors, you’ll need to make your peace with some rainy days. Rather than seeing rainy days as yucky weather
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Explore playful outdoor literacy resources that will help you re-think where and how language learning happens in our schools.
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Imaginative play with a box
This post has been written to support imaginative play with a box at home. If you have boxes available from deliveries, or are expecting deliveries,
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Garden Literacy With Story Stones
This post has been edited to support families learning at home during the COVID 19 home learning season. Story stones can be used in your
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Garden Vocabulary Vase and Scavenger Hunt
One of my favourite, low prep ways to enhance and develop garden vocabulary in the outdoor classroom is to prepare garden vocabulary vases that serve
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Storytelling in Nature
Walking, working and playing in nature invites children’s imaginations to create stories that reflect their lived experiences, their wonders and their understandings of the world
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Nature Inspired Fall Reads
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,
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10 Pumpkin Life Cycle Books
Pumpkin Life Cycle Books One of the best plants to grow in school gardens has to be pumpkins. Pumpkins are planted and harvested during the
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Playful Literacy and Shadow Puppets
Shadow Puppets Liska over at Adventures in a Box has created a fantastic resource for anyone looking for shadow puppets and play supplies. Earlier this
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Butterflies are essential pollinator friends in our ecosystem that add to the biodiversity of any garden. When it comes to butterfly STEAM, this paper project is one of my favourites
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Planting with a theme in mind is a fun and engaging way to begin any garden project with kids. Over the years, I’ve planted several themed garden beds that range
Playful Learning With Dandelions
Dandelions are a sure sign of spring and an early source of pollen in our Spring gardens. Often considered weeds by gardeners, dandelions offer a multitude of learning opportunities with
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Formal outdoor education programs are very different than outdoor classrooms. That said, teaching outdoors still requires some planning and preparation, particularly if you are going to spend the majority of