School reading garden outdoor

Gardening has many benefits for children. While it has great health and social implications, it also offers brilliant hands on experience for learning. Inspired by the school and community garden stories, we’ve put together a guide to help get you started – from thinking about how to use the space, to how to involve the children and school community.

Spending time in the garden can awaken the senses of touch, smell, and taste, and attune a child to the subtler sights and sounds of nature.

Everything you need to know to start a school garden with your students. Teach interdisciplinary content and develop life skills at the same time! Great for project based learning as well. Follow the link to read the full blog post.

Setting up an outdoor reading environment. See playofthewild.com #readingoutdoors #readingoutside #eyfsoutdoors #eyfsoutdoorsetup #preschooloutside #preschooloutdoors #teachingideas #outdoorclassroom #learningoutside #school #preschool #eyfs #learningoutside #literacy #reading #tree

Tyre seats. Gloucestershire Resource Centre http://www.grcltd.org/scrapstore/

Jeffers Pond Elementary School, in partnership with the City of Prior Lake, held a dedication ceremony for its new Hammock Forest late last month. The Hammock Forest is part of the school’s 31 unique outdoor learning spaces.

We are so impressed to see how this Growing Garden has developed. If that is something your school needs please contact us. #outdoorlearning #made2play

At Hand Made Places, we’ve created a free guide to designing sensory gardens for school playgrounds for unusual and inclusive school gardening club ideas.

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