Next-Level, Nature-Based Outdoor Learning
Discover A New World of Immersive Exploration & Academics
Next-Level, Nature-Based Outdoor Learning
Discover A New World of Immersive Exploration & Academics
Preschool & Childcare Center Serving Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
How Does Outdoor Learning Benefit Your Child?
Supports all developmental domains: intellectual, emotional, social, physical.
Increases the ability to focus and enhances cognitive abilities.
Improves social relations: practices problem-solving, turn-taking, and self-control.
Develops self-confidence, reflection, and safe risk-taking and challenging play.
Reduced sensory overload, as being in nature can help regulate the nervous system and reduce sensory overload.
Contact with the natural world can significantly reduce symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder.
Creativity and imagination are nurtured while engaging in dramatic play.
Promotes better sleep due to physical activity and exposure to light.
Peek At Our Outdoor Learning Environments!
The Nature Station
Area to encourage a connection between nature and learning, creating a space that encourages children to explore, discover, and grow in an outdoor environment. This area includes a mud kitchen, slide, stone path, dry river, sandbox, stepping logs, group meeting area, performance area, and lots of plants.
The Wonder Station
This outdoor area conveys a dynamic and creative environment where different forms of artistic expression can intersect and inspire each other. It will include an area for art, loose parts, music, a sensory path, and tables for activities or snacks.
Here’s A Bird’s Eye View of Their Outdoor Learning Space!
Sandbox
Log Stepping
Slide Hill
Mud Kitchens
Dry River
Greens & Plants
Curious About Their Outdoor Learning Outcomes?
Encourage open-ended exploration with natural elements and loose parts that children can combine, manipulate, and use in their own way.
Make choices, follow their own interests, and express themselves creatively.
Empower children to take ownership of their learning, allowing their minds and bodies to thrive.
Provide a challenging, safe, and secure environment within which children can take and manage risks.
5 Ways We Handle Safety During Outdoor Learning
Teachers ensure adequate supervision and positioning, particularly in risky play.
Outdoor learning time is an extension of the classroom. Teachers will enhance learning of concepts with child directed activities.
Boundaries and rules for risky play will be reviewed with the children according to benefit-risk assessment.
Outdoor learning will occur in a variety of weather conditions and seasons in which supervision and risks will vary.
