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From YouTube: Learning Outside The Box
Description
Sandra just wanted to replace a pre-school playhouse but after meeting Nancy something special happened. This is the story of a serendipitous meeting between Educator Sandra Redmore and Landscape Designer Nancy Striniste and the partnership they have formed to help kids get outdoors and into nature's classroom.
B
C
A
We
were
looking
at
doing
some
renovation
on
the
playground
and
the
former
director
of
the
child
care
center.
So
please
don't
give
me
a
retirement
gift.
Instead,
please
do
something
to
make
the
outdoor
space
nicer
for
the
kids
and
at
that
time,
Joe
and
Cal
shoes
with
the
Department
of
Environmental
Services
just
introduced
me.
B
We
used
what's
called
the
community,
build
model
which
is
a
way
to
bring
people
together
with
an
expert
as
volunteers.
They
provide
the
labor
to
build
the
space
and
also
learn
various
natural
building
techniques
and
the
side
benefit
of
that
is
that
your
building
as
a
community
but
you're
also
building
community
and.
C
There
had
been
interest
in
the
area
on
this
concept
of
straw,
bale
house
construction,
so
I
put
out
the
word
that
we
were
going
to
do.
This
construction
project
turned
out
to
be
a
beautiful
sunny
day
and
we
got
about
15
or
20
volunteers
who
came
and
they
spent
all
day
with
us
building
the
structure.
I'm
loading
up
the
hay
bales
tying
them
all
together,
starting
to
plaster
them.
We
put
a
beautiful
green
vegetated
roof
on
the
top
of
it.
C
So
hopefully
they
learned
a
skill,
but
they
also
learned
some
broader
things
about
how
community
works
about
volunteerism
about
kids
and
how
they
learn,
and
hopefully
they'll
take
that
out
into
the
community
with
them
and
spread
the
word
elsewhere.
I
wanted
to
get
the
kids
involved
somewhere
along
the
way,
so
we
built
two
little
cob
play
houses
which
are
basically
little
mud,
huts
cob.
B
Is
a
very
ancient
building
technique?
The
word
cob
comes
from
the
British
Isles
and
it
refers
to
a
loaf
like
a
loaf
of
bread,
building
with
wet
bricks,
basically
about
the
size
of
a
loaf
of
bread.
So
when
you're
building
with
caviar
using
clay
and
sand
and
straw,
which
are
materials
that
are
really
available
practically
anywhere
in
the
world
and
the
traditional
method
of
mixing
those
materials
is
with
your
bare.
B
The
new
families,
families
that
are
there
now
who
weren't
there
when
this
big
project
happened,
they
don't
necessarily
feel
that
same
connection
to
the
space.
So
having
things
like
the
the
workshop
to
repair,
the
car
is
part
of
maintaining
the
space,
but
it
also
provides
an
opportunity
for
people
to
have
that
experience.
A
It's
always
changing.
It's
always
evolving,
it's
one
of
the
wonderful
things
about
nature
and
about
natural
spaces
having
to
think
about
what
we
wanted
to
have
happen
out
there.
That
was
one
of
the
great
gifts
that
Nancy
Davis,
aside
from
the
actual
design
of
the
space
itself,
was
really
getting
us
to
think
about
in
when
we
have
our
children
outside.
What
do
we
want
them
to
be
doing?
What
do
we
want
them
to
be
learning?
What
does
that
look
like,
and
then
how
do
we
get
there?
We.
B
A
A
lot
of
science
they're,
always
a
certain
time
of
day
when
you
sit
them
down
at
the
table
with
some
defined
concepts
of
facts,
you
wanna
teach
them
their
natural
explorers
or
natural
discovers
over
every
rock
to
see.
What's
underneath
it
and
there's
something
about
an
outdoor
setting,
I
think
which
really
encourages
children
to
take
risks
both
physically
but
as
learners.
It's
very
important
for
children's
growth
and
development,
I.
B
A
Have
a
huge
collection
of
extra
boots
that
we
keep
at
school
so
that
when
things
are
muddy
and
wet,
we
still
can
go
outside.
If
it's
really
cold,
you
can
layer,
your
kids
up
and
bundle
them
up
and
they're
riding
around
and
they're
fine.
But
we
worry,
as
adults,
understand
your
happens
and
it
isn't
so
much
of
fun
or
we
have
reasons
why
we
want
to
be
inside
and
then
how
those
children
grow
up.
They
grow
up
as
children
who
didn't
go
outside
and
they're
not
comfortable
being
outside.
Oh.
D
C
A
A
B
A
B
A
Create
a
lot
of
excitement
and
support
for
getting
all
children
outside,
regardless
of
where
they
live
in
the
county,
how
much
money
their
family
makes
which
school
they
happen
to
go
to
it's
part
of
the
bigger
picture
of
sustainability
having
a
community
that
takes
care
to
bring
up
its
children
with
those
values
and
to
make
it
possible
to
do
that.
My.