Next year, Phillips will be expanding her own outdoor play preschool, Wildsong Early Learning Community, which opened in 2024 at The Res in St. Joseph County, and the outdoor program at Eighth ...

The bill, which was sent to Democratic Gov. Wes Moore in April, would also establish a pilot program to test outdoor preschool standards with a few new programs and track efforts to expand the ...

Each day after outside play time, preschool teacher Dometila Casillas sits her classroom of 3- to 5-year-olds down on a rug to read a story together. Wednesday, she read “The Very Hungry ...

It may also influence children’s play in ways that benefit their overall ... In recent years, the number of outdoor preschool programs in the United States has rapidly increased.

In today’s rapidly changing world, parents are increasingly looking for educational approaches that support not just academic growth but also emotional, social, and physical development in their ...

Glenview Methodist Preschool (GMPS) in Glenview celebrated its new outdoor tricycle track when ... getting out there and playing with it is the best way to learn that,” Ben Riggin said.

Six preschoolers on Monday morning donned tiny yellow hard hats and picked up miniature plastic shovels while digging into a small pile of dirt outside the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education ...