

“Outdoor Preschool During COVID: Reflections, Successes and Challenges”
Like every other childcare program in the state of Oregon, our half-time indoors/half-time outdoors nature school temporarily closed in March due to COVID. When we reopened in June, we switched to an all outdoors all the time format as a safety precaution. Now that we have 4 months of all outdoor learning behind us and have made the transition to a new group of children for the school year, it is a good time to reflect on the outdoor preschool experience. Overall, the transit