I had a chance to speak with my Site Supervisor today regarding the lesson plans and the outdoor classroom schedule. She approved the lesson plans and also approved for me to open up the idea to all our teachers to contribute a lesson plan for the outdoor learning classroom. I am excited about that aspect, because I am a firm believer in "two heads are better than one" and I know that our teachers will come up with some really good lessons to contribute.
We also talked about getting a water hose out into that area to be able to water our plants and to have water lessons out there. I am going to speak with our school secretary tomorrow to ask her to send a work order to our maintenance department to do just that. Hopefully they will be able to do this for us. Our Head Start teacher and her paraprofessional have been going out there and watering the flowers that they planted, but they are having to make several trips in and out of the building to a nearby classroom to get water to the flowers. I am looking forward to seeing if maintenance will be able to get us hooked up with a hose and a turning wheel to roll it up on.
I look forward to hearing your comments, please give me some comments. Thank you...8)
What a great approach to learning. An 'outdoor' classroom. What kind of 'lessons' are you thinking about doing outside? I need to start at the beginning of your blog, and read up to this one. I would like to see more pictures too! Great work. Your ARP is coming along nicely!
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