There's No Such Thing As Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)

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And finally, he is also a convert to the dryrobe – “a godsend”, especially if it comes with a surfer van. Hitting the waves in winter is arguably the most extreme form of winter madness, but is incredibly rewarding. Ah, this is how…”) and also thinking that the rapid transfer btw home/car/work/repeat will somehow save us the burden of a heavy coat. K Turing scheme does not allow for younger pupils to be involved as they would have to go abroad to visit schools and there are no staff development opportunities.

I heard about Montessori, Steiner and Froebel and began to read widely onpractitioners who were influenced by these methods and approaches. It seemed like there had to be evidence of learning after every activityinstead of trusting that thechildren werelearning all the time. After a few run throughs we feltthe groups were ready for a real fire and decided tostart with the bestscienceexperiment of all times -popcorn. encourage them to chat away as they play, if you have time to join is do but it is important for them tolearn to play on their own too.We are all retired teachers of English, Math and Science and so have not thrown caution to the winds. This time the plan was to spend time observing the outdoor class (5-6 yearolds) and the 3-4 year olds, with each team spending at least 2 dayswith each group. It is obvious to me he would never dream of saying that to anyone except perhaps as a running joke to Norwegian friends… and I’ve never met the bloke!

Swedish data confirm that the amount of time young people are active outdoors has dipped slightly over the past three decades, with around 25% now spending time in the countryside or forest at least once a week, compared to 29% in the early 1980s. I thought it was a good article anyway, and although it more than likely includes confirmation bias, anecdotally, I have found it to be true and agreed upon with three male German friends (two of whom also agreed with the analysis) but very different with one female. There are also a ton of fun things to do with ice that will help them keep cool, like freezing some toys in a container and letting the kids peck away at the clump of ice with some tools. We all know that at 5 in the morning the lanes behind hotels are full of children, especially wee blind ones who can't see fucking trucks coming. Iregularlyhave other teachers come to visit on our fire days so they can see how it alloperates and I am glad to saymost if not all, go back to their own settings and begin to have fires with their classes.

Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Sir William Connolly, CBE (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, presenter, actor, and artist. You don’t have to live in pristine wilderness to make unstructured outdoor play a priority—nature is everywhere, even in the cities. Staff are so skilled at observing that they don't need to be on top of the children either and what I noticed most of all wasthat no adult ever shouted for a child, they went to the child (unless the child was very far away from them). On ice, Owen says, crampons are essential: “What is soft slush in the afternoon can become rock-hard by nightfall,” he points out.