Two girls wading and exploring, talking, listening to the water moving around them, feeling the coolness of the water, smelling the clean organic smell.
"Nature Deficit Disorder", You hear this term being used to describe today’s kids and their disconnect from the natural world.
Connecting the kids with their environment is paramount with the Outdoor Adventures program.
So what can you learn in a wetland?, also known as a swamp back in the day as a kid myself growing up on a farm wearing similar oversized barn boots. I just had acres of them too explore not the little wetland of runoff rain that we call Wildcat Pond.
Here is just a sampling of what these girls can learn:
· Freedom to explore and be curious
· Unstructured play free of performance demands
· Using their imaginations
· Developing an awareness and sensitivity for this type of environment
· Sharing, friendship
· Memories
Expand into the scientific world of what they learn and observe and list gets long.
Oh yes they asked permission before they went exploring……
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