Peace garden ideas school

Make colorful rock flowers with painted rocks. Add them to your garden and enjoy year long colorful rock flowers.

A school is not only about reading textbooks and filling exercise books. While these things are important, it's essential that teachers prepare their students for upcoming life challenges as well. And probably no one could have done it better than Sharon elementary school in Newburgh, Indiana.

Kids today are engaging in outdoor play less frequently than previous generations. Research has shown a significant decline in outdoor playtime, with only 31% of children playing outside daily compared to 70% of their parents during childhood. This reduction in playtime is concerning, especially given the rise of sensory processing disorders and autism spectrum disorders among children. Multi-sensory playgrounds can help to address this problem and encourage healthy child development. Be a…

The Innisfail Public Library and the community's Youth Action Committee hope to rock your world with positive messages as part of its Kindness Rocks Garden.

Schools often struggle with a lack of outdoor space. Here we provide a selection of resources that will fit almost anywhere and will entice your children to make the most of their time spent outdoors. Some of these may also be useful for those who hire space and need to pack everything away at the end of each session.

When you next visit the Dewing, take a moment to look at the first installment of what we hope will be a yearly addition to our landscape by our second grade artists. Thanks to Art Teacher Kristen Kosiba, and with inspiration from Linda Krantz’ book, “Only One You,” our students painted rocks to show the […]