Email photos to Jeff Maharry with a short description or submit your own post detailing the work that you and your students are undertaking.
We are especially interested in the creative ways that you incorporate outdoor learning opportunities into your student's lives.
Possible Activities to document:
Morning meetings
Sketching
Poetry reading
Writer’s notebook
Independent ready,
Read alouds
Puppet plays
Silent walk through
Meditation
Yoga
Sensory Tours
Recitals
Photography
Mapping
Scientific Study
Gardening
The Outdoor Classroom hosted students from Nursery School through High School! Highlights:
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5th grade science (3 classes) students documented details of the space with words and objective evidence, they noted scale, focused on the area along creek and SW walls
N4 and 2nd Grade buddies noticed that "when you tap on a rock the tadpoles come out." Other sightings: snails,crickets, grasshoppers, bugs with wings.
Bloom and Mitzenbacher (5th grade) had the objective of learning what it means to be both "outdoors" and "in a classroom"; What can we learn from our surroundings; and they had a notebook exercise that asked the students to "think like a scientist and think like an artist."
Mandel and Dodd's classroom shared the space to work on the concept of becoming friends with new people and places. Together the classrooms explored conservation ideas of placement, movement, and emptiness by sending leaves down the stream from the waterfall to the lower pond.
Sylvie and Jeff added buckets of mud from Wooded Island lagoon (south) and other areas resulting in the addition of new life to our pond.