October 19, 2012

The following quote was taken from the NAEYC (The National Association for the Education of Young Children).  Cultivating Outdoor Classrooms by Eric Nelson.

How did you play as a child? Where did you play? What did you learn by playing? Probably (depending how old you are) you got to play outdoors, investigating a complex and often unpredictable world of nature, and negotiating relationships with friends. As many adults will remember, but many children today have never discovered, the richest learning environments are outdoors.

Children are active learners – acquiring physical knowledge, social-emotional knowledge and co-constructive cognitive knowledge not only by sitting and listening, but especially by doing….and there’s more to do outdoors – more space, more sensory materials, more unpredictability, and more open-ended tasks in which the outcome hasn't been predetermined by adult planners.

KWILD offers each child the opportunity to Wonder, Investigate, Learn and Discover.