Outdoor Preschool
Selecting a school for your child can be a difficult choice. Recently, Walderkindergarten's have been growing in popularity. This may be a great choice for families who enjoy the outdoors. It also could be a great choice for families who are uncomfortable in the outdoors but want their children to exprience the joys of nature.
Walderkindergarten
Coming to the United States from Germany the Walderkindergarten movement, is growing in popularity. These schools that often start before kindergarten have as a mision to keep your children outside for long periods of time. Children do activities outdoors in all kinds of weather and explore the natural landscape.
Here are some links to articles and schools. This may give you somemore ideas on which type of school is good for your child:
Wikipedia: Forest Kindergarten
Carbondale, Colorado Walderkindergarten
Children and Nature Network reporting on a New York Times ArticleThere was an article in Mothering a few years ago but I tried to locate it and could not.
Have fun learning about Walderkindergarten.
