The document discusses recommendations for outdoor activities and equipment for early childhood education. It recommends that outdoor time be weather permitting and supervised by adults. Suggested equipment includes climbing structures, sandboxes, playhouses, riding toys, shaded areas, developmentally appropriate sports equipment, and garden plots. The purpose is to provide inviting, challenging, and safe outdoor spaces that offer learning opportunities not available inside.
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The document discusses recommendations for outdoor activities and equipment for early childhood education. It recommends that outdoor time be weather permitting and supervised by adults. Suggested equipment includes climbing structures, sandboxes, playhouses, riding toys, shaded areas, developmentally appropriate sports equipment, and garden plots. The purpose is to provide inviting, challenging, and safe outdoor spaces that offer learning opportunities not available inside.
The document discusses recommendations for outdoor activities and equipment for early childhood education. It recommends that outdoor time be weather permitting and supervised by adults. Suggested equipment includes climbing structures, sandboxes, playhouses, riding toys, shaded areas, developmentally appropriate sports equipment, and garden plots. The purpose is to provide inviting, challenging, and safe outdoor spaces that offer learning opportunities not available inside.
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The document discusses recommendations for outdoor activities and equipment for early childhood education. It recommends that outdoor time be weather permitting and supervised by adults. Suggested equipment includes climbing structures, sandboxes, playhouses, riding toys, shaded areas, developmentally appropriate sports equipment, and garden plots. The purpose is to provide inviting, challenging, and safe outdoor spaces that offer learning opportunities not available inside.
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are an integral part of the early childhood curriculum. There should be weather permitting for children to spend some time outdoors.
The equipment on the playground
should be inviting, challenging, durable, and safe. The playground must be fenced and provide built-in limits.
Adults must always supervise
children’s play while they are outdoors. Some general areas of play are: Climbing equipment (monkey bars) Sand (sand box) Playhouse Paved area for riding toys (tricycles and cars) Shaded Area for opportunity to get out of the sun Developmentally appropriate basketball hoop Additional equipments: hula hoops, balls, and riding toys, slide, and swing. Garden plots that the children plant and care Outdoor explorations offer opportunities not available inside the classroom. “To plant a single pumpkin seed in the garden and watch it grow, to dig in the earth and uncover one very wiggly red worm, to gaze at a spider on a tree branch as it spins an intricate web, to catch snowflakes on the tongue, to watch a hummingbird sip nectar from the crimson phlox, to catch a flashing firefly in a jelly jar – a whole wide world is waiting for young children just outside the door. (Hillman, 1995, p.57)”