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by Clark Kugler / October 16, 2009
Physical fitness is becoming a part of many preschool curriculums and state early learning standards. Some of the findings show that simple pathways for children to walk on keeps them moving and increases fitness levels. To create pathways that keep children moving, the outdoor play area can have stepping stones between learning centers. There are […]
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by Clark Kugler / October 8, 2009
A preschool playground is a great place to set up a city. Creating a city outdoors is a wonderful thing that can be done simply with cardboard boxes. Children can decorate the boxes and cut out doors and windows. Then you can put these items along your bike path. Name your streets and label them, […]
by Clark Kugler / October 5, 2009
This is a great time of year to start a nature science corner on your playground. This is a place in the fall to collect everything that is falling to the ground, such as leaves sticks. Have children use magnifying glass to investigate these fall objects. In the nature center allow them to sort and […]
by Clark Kugler / October 2, 2009
Absolutely! Woodworking is a great part of the preschool curriculum. To help bring the outdoors alive, you can set up a small workbench and a few simple tools for children to use. Several programs I work with begin their woodworking curriculum right after Halloween every year. They take their leftover pumpkins and use them as […]
by Clark Kugler / September 27, 2009
There are many ways to bring literacy outside. Simply labeling and naming everything allows children to practice whole language. Have children make their own signs and tape them onto objects. One of my favorite things has been watching children journal outdoors and seeing what they view in the world versus what I view in the […]
by Clark Kugler / September 17, 2009
The Adventurous Child believes children benefit from music in the outdoor classroom. The main problem we find with doing music outdoors is that the instruments must withstand damage and changes to the sounds they make. Many playground musical instruments are not in tune and do not have contrasting sounds. This defeats the purpose of having […]
by Clark Kugler / September 10, 2009
Inside, we tend to have lots of manipulatives for children: things that they can move and build with and adjust and change. When we take our children outdoors, we only provide them with static gross motor equipment or other static play items. Without manipulatives, the children quickly become bored. They’ll then make manipulatives of whatever […]
by Clark Kugler / September 3, 2009
During the preschool years, a lot of math deals with classifying and categorizing objects into groups and sets. What better place the outdoors to classify natural items such as grass, rocks, sticks, and leaves. An example would be a box full of rocks. If children are provided with a pile of rocks of different and […]
by Clark Kugler / August 19, 2009
Loud, noisy items are wonderful things to use outdoors. Children do not have to use their quiet indoor voices; they can whoop and holler and express themselves in different ways out on the playground than they can indoors. Musical instruments are a wonderful thing outside. They emit soft and loud noises and allow children to […]
by Clark Kugler / August 12, 2009
For today’s blog, I am going to focus on messy things and why it is so much better to do them outdoors. I think of a preschool art easel and how much work teachers go to indoors, taping newspaper on the walls and the floors to make sure if children splatter paint or spill things, […]
by Clark Kugler / August 6, 2009
Weather is an abstract concept when discussed from the confines of an indoor classroom. Outdoors weather can be a concrete learning experience that provides interaction with all of a child’s senses. A child can hear the wind, feel the wind, and see trees swaying in the wind. Air actually has a smell just before it […]
by Clark Kugler / July 30, 2009
Are these the same things they gain outdoors? Yes! In many ways the goals of what we want children to learn in the outdoors are the same as indoors. The Adventurous Child would like to see children develop socially, emotionally, cognitively, physically, etc. in outdoor settings where there is nature and movement all around. One […]
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