Author: Clark Kugler

by Clark Kugler / January 6, 2011

Can you believe that it is already 2011? Time sure does fly by. I hope you had a fun and safe New Year’s Eve celebration. Between singing “Auld Lang Syne” and toasting with my family to 2011, I started thinking about my New Year resolutions. When I got back to work this week, I asked […]

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by Clark Kugler / December 23, 2010

December is the month for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanza. As we spend time with our nearest and dearest, we hope that you have a wonderful holiday season full of friends, family, and good cheer. Thank you so much for allowing The Adventurous Child and The Outdoor Preschool to be a part of your lives this […]

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by Clark Kugler / December 2, 2010

Relationships are important. Whether they are between friends, co-workers, or children and their care providers, you must nurture those relationships for them to grow. Of course, there are also figurative relationships, such as the one between experiences and development: The adults in a child’s life play a critical role in determining the experiences made available […]

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by Clark Kugler / November 8, 2010

Early November is a great time to take your children for a hike. Whether you actually take them into the woods or around your playground, they will enjoy being outdoors during the seasonal transition. Now is the time to kick up some leaves and talk about the cooler temperatures. Ask them how the air feels […]

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by Clark Kugler / October 21, 2010

Recently it occurred to us that as much as you know about The Adventurous Child’s products and equipment, you may not know a whole lot about us. We’d like to spend today sharing a little bit about ourselves and our company. Our focus is to provide outdoor playground equipment that meet each state’s Early Learning […]

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by Clark Kugler / October 14, 2010

Until approximately age 6, children are concrete learners rather than abstract learners. Engaging them in their senses – hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and touching – is the most effective way for them to learn. Young children require tangible methods for really learning phenomena. For example, weather is a great topic to teach young children. But […]

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by Clark Kugler / October 7, 2010

Here at The Adventurous Child, we’ve been on a kick about assessment lately. Check this quote out: “Assessment is an integrative process…. Learning is personal, active, and genuine; discovery invites mastery and empowerment; delight feeds passion and a quest for more; and determination nurtures confidence and creates a sense that learning is forever” (Hughes & […]

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by Clark Kugler / September 30, 2010

“Caps for sale! Caps for sale!” Make your children’s favorite stories come to life with a store front. Place the store front along a bike path and let children create their own story —maybe a lemonade stand, a counter at a bank, post office or fast food restaurant – the possibilities are as plentiful as […]

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by Clark Kugler / September 24, 2010

Hot day? Take your kids outside and let them cool off with a car wash. A great addition to any outdoor play area, the car wash allows children to enter and exit through realistic plastic flaps, similar to a real wash. A pipe runs down the roof line and has several sprayer jets that release […]

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by Clark Kugler / September 16, 2010

Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld, renowned dance instructor, commented: “I know from my experiences that when children have the chance to move and to be creative, it helps them engage with the rest of the curriculum…. [M]ovement involve[s] language and patterning, which support reading and problem solving” (p. 12).   A playhouse offers abundant opportunities for movement […]

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by Clark Kugler / September 9, 2010

“Music, dance, drama, and story are the oldest ways human beings learned to pass on information, traditions, customs, and beliefs…. In the vocabulary of some Native American and African languages, there is no word for art, because art is part of everything the people do. Children are natural connectors. Similarly, they see the performing arts […]

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by Clark Kugler / August 30, 2010

While sharing stories in the Literacy Gazebo, select one of the children’s favorites from the Bookcase. This handy-dandy bookcase displays books and art supplies in an outdoor classroom setting. Specially-formulated playground plastics create the shelves and the exterior of the bookcase. This means the weather (i.e. rain, sun, heat and cold) will not affect whatever […]

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