Monte Vista Early Education Center

 

Our focus for the 2024/2025 school year outdoor nature explorer classroom is to continue engaging the community by creating opportunities such as community festivals, beautification events, and parent/child ongoing bonding times. We started by having a beautification event where we invited the community to plant in our garden, paint benches, and service our outdoor nature classroom. We also had a community festival where we opened the outdoor nature explorer classroom and invited parents to come in with their children and family members to engage in activities, which included face painting, games, live music and food.

This year we extended our outdoor nature explorer classroom hours from 2:30-5:00pm daily for students, parents, and family members to explore. Our students express enjoyment when they are able to show their families what they have learned during school hours and have their home community involved. This interaction has given our families an opportunity to have a safe environment where they can bond, socialize, and embrace the school community as a whole.

The nature explorer has aided our students in developing gross motor skills, socialization and language development. Students are able to interact with each other while planting and playing in our various areas. This helps build relationships with one another expanding their vocabulary with new terms that express outdoor knowledge of their environment such as the identification of trees, seasons, plants/flowers, insects, and their growth cycles.

Monte Vista Early Education Center is the place to be!