• The Importance of Outdoor Play •

At Discovery Trails Early Learning Academy we believe the outdoors is the very best place for preschoolers to practice and master emerging physical skills as they:
- Run, leap and jump
- Learn ball handling skills like throwing, catching and striking:
- Exercise resistance as they push, pull and carry
The outdoors helps children’s physical well-being while:
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Burning more calories
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Preventing obesity and heart disease
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Outdoor light stimulates the pineal gland that regulates the “biological clock” and is vital to the immune system
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Supporting happiness
Outdoor play contributes to learning by:
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Impacting cognitive and social development
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Promoting self-expression is supported by inventing games
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Encouraging autonomy, decision making, organizational skills
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Rehearsing communication skills and vocabulary
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Relating numbers as by keeping score and count
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Understanding social customs by playing together and cooperating
Learning to appreciate the outdoors as:
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Impacting cognitive and social development
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Promoting self-expression is supported by inventing games
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Encouraging autonomy, decision making, organizational skills
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Rehearsing communication skills and vocabulary
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Relating numbers as by keeping score and count
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Understanding social customs by playing together and cooperating
Preschoolers learn much about the outdoors through their senses like:
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Seeing: animals, birds, plants
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Hearing: wind blowing, birds singing, leaves crackling
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Smelling: trees, flowers, rain
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Touching: bark on the trees, sand, rocks, sticks
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Tasting: snow, raindrops, fresh air

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4405 N. CHESTNUT ST., COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80907
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