Learning Is in Bloom: Cultivating Outdoor Explorations

by Ruth Wilson

Creative Child Magazine's 2016 Preferred Book Award! The movement to connect young children with nature continues to grow, as more parents and educators become passionate about bringing learning outdoors and letting children explore outside the bounds of traditional lessons. In the full-color Learning Is in Bloom , teachers and caregivers will find 40 hands-on activities effective in engaging young children in investigating nature, both indoors and outdoors, on the school grounds, and on excursions around the neighborhood. Through fostering a love of nature, the activities promote all areas of early childhood education and development. Readers will learn how to support child-directed explorations within all kinds of learning in a nature-rich setting,
-Science investigations
-Mathematical thinking
-Art explorations
-Literacy development

168 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 2016

Reviews

[Andréa]

Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.

[Lisa K]

didn't really read

quick flip through to see if it's useful for GS outdoor training: fine activities, written to encourage things I like such as asking kids what they know first; lots of long-winded text around activities