Why Nature Kindergarten?
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- Children have a natural curiosity about the world around them. Letting them explore their capabilities and taking risks helps them evolve into strong, capable, resilient autonomous citizens.
- Connecting children to nature fosters rich learning experiences, ecological literacy and healthy living. This supports their executive functioning skills, builds strong brain functioning, self regulation and life skills.
Time spent in natural environments has been proven to be beneficial for both child development and for the physical and emotional health and wellbeing of all age groups. Outdoor learning and play are essential ingredients to a healthy childhood.
A growing body of research indicates how learning and playing outdoors can improve cognitive functioning, reduce student and teacher stress, improve attention, boost mental health, raise test scores and ignite a sense of wonder.