Outback Adventures Preschool announces that we have earned the national designation of a "Certified Nature Explore Classroom".
Nature Explore Classrooms are part of the Nature Explore Program, a collaborative project of the Arbor Day Foundation and Dimensions Educational Research Foundation. Certified Nature Explore Classrooms are designed to help to connect children and nature using research-based principles for integrating nature into their daily learning.
While connecting children to nature, such activities and play are shown to enhance concentration, develop creativity and problem-solving, relieve stress and improve skills in many areas.
In our Nature Explore Classroom children can create visual masterpieces in a nature art area, climb and crawl on structures, build with natural materials, practice their balance, agility, and creativity in areas designed for music and movement, observe and help in the garden and orchard areas, and form relationships with our animals: 2 rabbits, 2 turtles, 2, snakes, a hamster, many fish, a crawdad, a dog and a cat!
The Nature Explore Classroom is the ideal tool to provide children with meaningful connections to nature. One of the best aspects of the classroom is that it gives children a positive hands-on experience with nature and the outdoors in a structured safe setting.
John Rosenow, chief executive of the Arbor Day Foundation, states "Outback Adventures Preschool has taken an important leadership role in a profoundly needed initiative to connect young children with nature, setting a wonderful example for education centers across the country. Everyone at the Arbor Day Foundation and Dimensions Educational Research Foundation appreciate the commitment Outback Adventures Preschool has made to the Nature Explore program and the role that nature plays in the lives of young children."
Please see us on Arbor Day Foundation's website:
http://www.arborday.org/explore/ideabook/certified/outbackAdventures.cfm
