Seeing and feeling the world in a new way
An inspiring news article about children, the arts and emotional health.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Premier Announces Date for Family Day
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Ohio Dr recommends one hour of outdoor play each day
http://ecochildsplay.com/2010/10/04/ohio-doctor-prescribes-outside-time-for-children/
Pediatrician, Dr. Wendy Anderson-Willis at Nationwide Children's Hospital, says it's the right of the child to play outdoors and it's the job of the adults to create a world where this is possible. Anderson-Willis prescribes at least one hour each day to play outside. She also advises to eat five fruits and vegetables a day, drink mostly water and cut back on screen time.
Pediatrician, Dr. Wendy Anderson-Willis at Nationwide Children's Hospital, says it's the right of the child to play outdoors and it's the job of the adults to create a world where this is possible. Anderson-Willis prescribes at least one hour each day to play outside. She also advises to eat five fruits and vegetables a day, drink mostly water and cut back on screen time.
I think if more doctors prescribed outside time for their patients, parents may actually take this recommendation seriously. In fact, school’s would have to honor the prescription in the same manner they do ADD drugs like ritalin.
From Eco Child's Play (share this quote)
As
part of its efforts to get children outside, the Ohio Leave No Child
Inside Coalition applauded Dr. Wendy Anderson-Willis in a rally last
week. The Columbus Dispatch reports:
The Ohio coalition yesterday also recognized Dr. Wendy Anderson-Willis, a pediatrician at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, for her efforts that include giving many of her patients prescriptions to play outside for at least an hour each day and her involvement in the Walk with a Doc program.I think if more doctors prescribed outside time for their patients, parents may actually take this recommendation seriously. In fact, school’s would have to honor the prescription in the same manner they do ADD drugs like ritalin.
“I think it’s the right of every child to play outside and it’s the job of the adults to create a world where this is possible,” Anderson-Willis said.
In addition to playing outside, her advice to patients and their parents: eat five fruits and vegetables a day; drink mostly water; and cut back on screen time.
Source: Eco Child's Play (http://s.tt/1bN0A)
As
part of its efforts to get children outside, the Ohio Leave No Child
Inside Coalition applauded Dr. Wendy Anderson-Willis in a rally last
week. The Columbus Dispatch reports:
The Ohio coalition yesterday also recognized Dr. Wendy Anderson-Willis, a pediatrician at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, for her efforts that include giving many of her patients prescriptions to play outside for at least an hour each day and her involvement in the Walk with a Doc program.I think if more doctors prescribed outside time for their patients, parents may actually take this recommendation seriously. In fact, school’s would have to honor the prescription in the same manner they do ADD drugs like ritalin.
“I think it’s the right of every child to play outside and it’s the job of the adults to create a world where this is possible,” Anderson-Willis said.
In addition to playing outside, her advice to patients and their parents: eat five fruits and vegetables a day; drink mostly water; and cut back on screen time.
Source: Eco Child's Play (http://s.tt/1bN0A)
Maple Ridge - Pitt Meadows School District team with other partners to provide the Environmental School Project
Environmental School Project -
a very inspiring story begins in 2008
Regardless of the weather, be it dry and somewhat
comfortable or below freezing with snow floating down, the School
District 42 students, ranging in age from four to 12, would have been
outdoors, as they have been the majority of the school year.
Clayton
Maitland, coordinator and administrator of the Environmental School
Project, believes the program is the only one of its kind in Canada.
The
unique experiment in public education has school lessons delivered in
parks, at picnic tables, alongside streams, under tarps and tents, in
gardens, libraries, restaurants, fitness centres, and even municipal
council chambers, when they're available.
According to the
program's website (es.sd42. ca), "The theory and practice of the project
is supported by Place-Based, Imaginative and Ecological Education.
Learning and teaching will be experiential, in context, and through
activities that engage the mind, body, and heart."
Maitland himself didn't find his passion for learning in school, but rather, outside the confines of school walls. "Mostly, my mom taught me about the natural world and outside," he said.
Looking into the needs of students, Maitland said "experience" usually tops the list. "A
lot of primary experiences that are holistic in nature, are missing,"
he said. "They sit in rows, they sit in desks, and they have a box, and
they have the school, and the school itself creates that metaphor."
Maitland said the natural world offers "a totally broader, deeper sense to learning."
Like any other school, classes start at 8: 30 a.m. and run until 2: 20 p.m., five days a week.
"We
have the potential to do what we want with that Monday through Friday,"
Maitland said. "We have that opportunity to put learning in context."
In
any activity, the basic components of education, such as reading,
writing, mathematics, and science, can be mixed together, so they
interact with all subject areas, Maitland explained. "A cedar
stump that's 100 years old or 1,000 years old, you can dig deep into the
histories of what's going on through that whole time period, so that
stump itself becomes reading, math, history for humanities everything
mixed together," Maitland said.
Some of the activities this year
have included studying the anatomies of salmon, human bodies, and trees,
and the three are compared to discover the similarities and
differences.
"All breathe, all need water, and they think and eat
in different ways," Maitland said. "There are different systems in the
salmon, the human, and the tree that all work together."
Students of varying ages are mixed depending on the activity, Maitland noted.
The school's progress is being monitored by Simon Fraser University researchers, who obtained a $1-million federal grant for that purpose.
Read more: http://www.mrtimes.com/news/Kids+classroom+moves+outdoors/5983609/story.html#ixzz1w0HCsWxd
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Richard Louv interview on Outside Today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFqBl0OuZrk
I'll start our discussion on Nurturing Children's Biophilia with this clip next Friday :) I think I want to buy Louv's two books!!
The Nature Principle - Field Guide - Richard Louv
The Nature Principle - Field Guide - Richard Louv
What a wonderful website! Louv wrote "The Last Child in the Woods" in 2005. His latest book focuses on adults and nature-deficient disorder (his coined word).
What a wonderful website! Louv wrote "The Last Child in the Woods" in 2005. His latest book focuses on adults and nature-deficient disorder (his coined word).
Monday, May 14, 2012
Future of Children ..... Resource from Princeton University
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