The first years of a child are crucial to understand that child’s potential to learn and develop intellectual, motor, cognitive, social skills and many other characteristics, so it is reasonable that parents and carers are very attentive when selecting which schools and childcare centres their children will attend.
Each school and centre offer a set of techniques and initiatives in a unique way, though most of them are highly concentrated in the indoor activities from a classroom. However, outdoor activities are extremely engaging for children and early literacy, which makes educational institutions with such activities much more engaging and beneficial for children.
Natural phenomena can amaze children, since a very trivial ladybug walking on the grass, to dry leaves falling from trees to feeling the first raindrops before getting back to class. Children are natural scientists and experimentalists, observing every phenomenon around them and trying to understand and even replicate (you know, when they throw the same object to the ground, they might be just trying to check if the sound of hitting the ground is always the same).
When they are learning how to read and write, their interest for natural phenomena will be awesome driving forces to develop such language skills, so they are able to learn more about nature and talk about it with friends and family. Therefore, parents and carers should recognise the great value of outdoor activities for children’s curiosity, imagination and engagement.
Watch this video from Natural Start Alliance about more benefits from nature-based early childhood education:
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