Wildsight's Classroom with Outdoors Starts April 25
Grade Four-to-Seven Teachers Encouraged to Enroll Students
This spring, Wildsight’s award-winning Classroom With Outdoors field trip programs will continue to offer students the opportunity to reconnect with nature and learn about their natural environment.
“Kids of all ages learn so much when they get a chance to get outside and play,” says Wildsight Program Manager Monica Nissen. “We’re just happy we can get out there and have fun with them.”
Columbia Valley teachers of grade four to seven wanting to enroll their students in this spring’s program are urged to contact Wildsight as soon as possible. Parents interested in volunteering are encouraged to contact their childrens’ classroom teachers. Field trips will take place April 25th to June 24th.
Classroom With Outdoors field trips are day-long curriculum-based experiences that provide students the chance to learn about science through fun, hands-on activities. Each grade is provided a specific program, and teachers are provided with resource materials. All instruction is delivered by local environmental educators.
A growing amount of research shows children are smarter, more cooperative, happier and healthier when they have frequent and varied opportunities for free and unstructured play in the out-of-doors.
“Natural spaces and materials stimulate children’s limitless imaginations and serve as the medium of inventiveness and creativity,” says Robin Moore, an international authority on the design of environments for children’s play, learning, and education.
Since the program started in 2001, over 26,000 students of all ages have participated in more than 950 field trips. The program has operated with generous help from Columbia Basin Trust BC Gaming Commission, Nature Canada, Columbia Power Corporation, Shell Canada Foundation, BC Hydro, Osprey Foundation, private donors, and Parent Advisory Councils throughout the Basin.
“We’re really looking forward to the programs this spring,” says Nissen. “It’s fun and informative for everybody.”
For more information or to book a program, please call the Wildsight office at (250)427-9325
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For more information, contact:
Monica Nissen, Environmental Education Program Manager
250.352.6346
monica@wildsight.ca
