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There are open air preschools in the Bay Area. The weather being temperate year round helps a lot as well.
by radicaldreamer 3y ago
There are open air preschools in the Bay Area. The weather being temperate year round helps a lot as well.
- asow92 3y agoIf Scandinavian babies can sleep in the cold, I think our kids be lectured in it, no? https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21537988 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21537988 As far as the hotter areas in the South, there's probably some solution for that too.
- egypturnash 3y agoFans. Possibly misters near the fans if you want to splurge. There's a lot of restaurants with open-air sections here in New Orleans that do this. You do need some sort of shielding from the sky, heatstroke is a thing, so's an absolute drenchpour that lasts about twenty minutes, usually in the afternoon.
- selimthegrim 3y agoTulane does have a sort of outdoor classroom with a chalkboard but I don’t really see it used for lecturing that often
- alwayslikethis 3y agoIf the temperature and humidity are high enough, no amount of fans and/or misters will cool you down.
- klysm 3y agoI.e. wet bulb temperature
- blueyes 3y agoFwiw, I send my pre-schooler to one. They often go by the lower-case name "forest school", although there is an official Forest School in the east bay, and frankly the outdoors that the kids spend time in is more of a cross of beach and park, less forest. When it rains, they wear galoshes and get suited up. Forest schools tend to have a "learning through play" philosophy, at least the ones I'm aware of. https://learningthroughplay.com/explore-the-research/the-scientific-case-for-learning-through-play https://learningthroughplay.com/explore-the-research/the-sci... I suspect they do well at socializing kids, and letting them figure things out for themselves. Definitely not doing some version of teaching to the test. Other advantage: it stayed open during COVID. Disadvantage: The smoke season in CA is a problem.