Outdoor activities – structured or free – are vital to children’s health ,developmentand wellbeing. They provide unique experiences and opportunities that cannot be repeated indoors, while they complement and expand the yearlong school projects, thus facilitating connecting knowledge to real life. We use the environment as a source of inspiration. The benefits of outdoor activities include:
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Contact with images, sounds and smells that can stimulate children’s curiosity, deepen their knowledge and broaden their horizons.
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Exercise of the senses that in these first years of the child are the main means of exploring and comprehending the world and relations in it.
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Deriving pleasure from the natural environment during all seasons and irrespective of the weather conditions.
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Interacting with extremely attractive stimuli and contexts of play, exploration and dialogue, offering children meaningful experiences and contact with the natural world.
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Opportunities for outdoor activities, labor and rest.
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Being active in a dynamic, flexible and versatile space where children can choose, create, modify and assume responsibility for their play.
