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Category: Learning Management

Supporting Young Children’s Creative Play in the Outdoors

Our Reception program (3, 4 & 5 year olds) is play-based and is heavily influenced by inquiry and constructivist learning philosophies. We use the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme as our curricular framework.

Both indoors and outdoors, we provide the children with uninterrupted blocks of time, up to 1.5 hours, to play.… Continue reading

Meeting the Needs of Children with Developmental Delays in a Play-Based Early Years Program

Harvesting, smelling, washing & tasting radishes are memorable sensory experiences.

In Spring 2019, I took the Intro to Exceptional Learners course from Florida Gateway College in Lake City, Florida. Throughout the course, I examined the course content through the lens of an outdoor education teacher.… Continue reading

Who’s in? Who’s out?

You’ve just returned from an amazing outdoor learning conference, read an inspiring book, or joined an early years outdoor learning group on Facebook or Twitter. You are fired up. Totally inspired. You’ve got so many ideas jumping around in your head that you want to take your students outside immediately on Monday morning.… Continue reading