Benefits
Outdoor Benefits
Our spacious, park-like setting allows children to experience the natural world as an extension of our indoor environment. Children benefit from spending large blocks of time in the outdoors, and their development is optimized through child-initiated activities, with teacher support. In the outdoors, children use bikes, and climbing equipment to learn how to use their body effectively and to experience the satisfaction of learning a new skill. Sand and water and the ability to creatively use ‘loose parts’, foster self expression and sensory pleasure by working with different mediums. Recent findings in brain development additionally show a direct correlation between what a child does physically and in future academic abilities such as reading, writing, mathematics and creativity.
Our spacious, park-like setting allows children to experience the natural world as an extension of our indoor environment. Children benefit from spending large blocks of time in the outdoors, and their development is optimized through child-initiated activities, with teacher support. In the outdoors, children use bikes, and climbing equipment to learn how to use their body effectively and to experience the satisfaction of learning a new skill. Sand and water and the ability to creatively use ‘loose parts’, foster self expression and sensory pleasure by working with different mediums. Recent findings in brain development additionally show a direct correlation between what a child does physically and in future academic abilities such as reading, writing, mathematics and creativity.
Benefits for the parent:
Benefits for the child:
- Develop a greater bond with your child by sharing his school experience
- Have an opportunity to observe how your child gets along with others
- Develop a greater understanding of your own child and all children
- Have an opportunity to discover your child’s interests and needs
- Have time away from your child, resulting in a more relaxed relationship with him that increases the pleasures of parenthood
- Gain solutions to child rearing problems through shared experiences with other parents and teachers, and information gathered from parent education classes
Benefits for the child:
- Experience healthy, happy times with children his/her own age
- Develop relationships with other grownups besides his/her parents
- Experience body building fun in safe and supervised surroundings
- Gain an appreciation of quiet times with good books and music
- Have an opportunity to discover the world around him through field trips
- Gain self-respect and respect for others
- Develop a positive attitude toward school
- Encourage creative experiences in all forms
- Increase their range of experiences
- Develop their social skills
- Develop self-regulatory skills
- Increase self -help skills
- Gain a strong foundations for future school experiences
