Using Outdoor Spaces for Much More Than Physical Play

In this workshop, we will look at the benefits of outdoor play and how we can use the playground spaces for much more than physical play. We will discuss how a well-designed outdoor space can help implement a responsive emergent curriculum. It can also provide a wider range of benefits for children—reducing stress, improving their concentration, and promoting creative problem solving. We will explore how to nurture children’s enthusiasm for the outdoors by sensory experiences and loose parts to accomplish this task.

Living Inquiries:  

• Well-being and belonging.
• Others, Materials and the World.
• Communication and literacies.
• Identities, social responsibility, and diversity.

Pathways: 

• Joy in relationships with people, place, materials and ideas.
• Knowledge and theories.
• Spaces, objects, and materials.
• Time for engagement.
• Interrelationship of humans and their common worlds.

Suitable for adult instructors/ECE Administrators, parents/guardians, intermediate and experienced early care and learning professionals working with children of all ages from infants/toddlers to school age children, including children with extra support needs.

Facilitator(s): Pooja Kalsi

Pooja has a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education from
the State University of New York. She has 25 years of experience in the Early childhood field as a teacher, facilitator, supervisor, director and is an experienced instructor. She is very passionate about finding ways to promote children’s creativity and expression of discovery and make it visible by documentation. She currently teaches at Langara College in the ECE department. Pooja is a mother of two and believes that she continues to learn from the world around her.

Register here: Using Outdoor Spaces for Much More Than Physical Play (4810-8100) :: Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre