CEDAR RAPIDS - A new preschool is promising children will get so messy while also being prepared for kindergarten at a new nature-based preschool program launching this fall.
Indian Creek Nature Center in Cedar Rapids to Open Preschool
The Indian Creek Nature Center in Cedar Rapids has announced they re opening a nature-based preschool this fall. Here s what that means.
The new Cedar Rapids preschool is going to have its three and four-year-old students spending a lot of time outdoors. A press release from the Indian Creek Nature Center points to numerous research pieces that show kids benefit now only from playing outdoors, but also from learning and exploring the great outdoors, as well. To that end, the new Creekside Forest School will follow these concepts:
Children will be outdoors between 30 and 70% of the time, learning in the context of nature.