Outdoor Learning vs Free Play:
Recess is free play while outdoor learning is more structured, facilitated, academic learning time. We are starting to set rules and parameters for outdoor classroom times. Students are now being asked to complete learning challenges and to focus attention as a group for short periods of time. |
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- Math: ten frames collection of nature materials and counting them, use sticks to make shapes, examine shapes of natural materials, use chalk to make shapes
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- Reading- sit spots reading, read aloud, outside story retelling
- Writing- Using clipboards to record with pictures, letters or words, writing about natural world around you, paint images or lines onto rocks, create their own journals
