by Pam Oken-Wright | Jul 16, 2014 | Teacher Research
I find that problems often beget projects, and one day early in October we had a problem. Some persistent bees were buzzing around the slide in the Outdoor Classroom. “But we want to slide!” objected the children. Since it was early in the school year, the children...
by Pam Oken-Wright | Jul 6, 2014 | Outdoor Learning, Teacher Research
The children’s interest in the flow of water was still high when the weather became too cool for water play. Wondering if they might make a connection between the flow of water and the way a ramp works, we offered balls to go with the lengths of gutters they had...
by Pam Oken-Wright | Jul 5, 2014 | Outdoor Learning, Teacher Research
This is a story in which dialogue becomes important to the play in the Outdoor Classroom, and in which play in the Outdoor Classroom becomes an element in the culture of the class. Early in the year, a member of our larger community came to make a fairy house with...
by Pam Oken-Wright | Jun 30, 2014 | Outdoor Learning, Teacher Research
This story is set early in the school year, when half the children were four and half were five. The week before, they created holes in the sand and filled them with water, marveling at the way the water slowly disappeared. The holes became trenches, and the trenches...
by Pam Oken-Wright | Jun 29, 2014 | Classroom Design, Outdoor Learning, Teacher Research
Creating the Outdoor Classroom was a collaborative venture. The seed had been rolling around in my imagination for years, fed by my observations of the way in which the children played outdoors and of the way they grow a relationship with nature. We’d tried some...
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