Playful learning outdoors is not only possible in your outdoor classroom, it is necessary! Inspire students to work collaboratively on outdoor garden projects like music walls, dinosaur gardens, mud kitchens and playful literacy through the use of shadow puppets and loose parts.
Literacy and Shadow Puppets For pre-literate children, shadow puppets are a fantastic way to support the big idea of story found in most early learning curriculums.
International Mud Day is June 29th this year, and if you are going to have a garden with kids, it makes sense to have a
How to build a fairy garden that supports creative play in three easy steps!
The emergent curriculum is a valuable tool for student directed inquiry in any outdoor classroom. I often have specific plans for my students that are
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
Although the year has officially just begun, it’s a critical time of year for parents to begin making plans for kids and their Fall programming.
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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This post is the second in a series of posts with resources for teachers teaching across the curriculum in their school gardens. This post lists some of the resources shared
We all know it can sometimes be easier and faster to just do it ourselves. But did you know that by teaching your child a few household chores you are
This page is for B.Ed students in the faculty of education at UBC with active links for resources shared during our class that will remain here after our class is
I love to garden. I love the peacefulness, I love watching things grow under my care and I love that I can see both immediate and long term results. I
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