Schools that let small children learn in the woods are trying to join the mainstream — but to do so, they might have to leave the knives and fire behind.
The following day, Worldmind wasn’t allowed to hold classes outdoors until 11 a.m. because the morning temperature was below the 15-degree threshold set by the state. So students visited the solar system exhibit inside the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, the school’s host and partner.
“We got it!” exclaimed Rigel Martinez, 4, as he picked up a forked branch that fell when he and Dabb sawed through it. “Now we’ve got big antlers,” he said. “He’s going to spend the next how many years behind a desk?” asked Richard Barrientos, whose son, Adrian, 5, attends The Nursery School. “Getting him more time outside where he can explore and play is pretty awesome.”
That cost is a reason why many programs don’t try to get a license. But that can put them out of reach for working parents who need full-day care or rely on state subsidies to afford it. To align with the new rules, which Rosa developed after extensive research, Dabb and his partner in The Nursery School, Matthew Hebard, agreed to stop lighting fires and to leave their saws and knives at home. They began meticulously logging the weather and kids’ encounters with animals.
Washington’s outdoor preschool pilot has somewhat more flexible rules. The Kaleidoscope Forest School, one of 11 programs that are part of the pilot or have applied to join, buses children to a densely wooded area for seven hours a day — more time than was allowed before licensing — with just tarps and a picnic shelter to protect them from the rain, and a portable compost toilet.
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