Webinar with Jill Bienenstock, Director of Education, Bienenstock Natural Playgrounds

Dive into the benefits of outdoor unstructured free play and learn how it supports the foundational skills needed for literacy to flourish. The aim is to enhance your current strategies used to support reading and writing in the early years and beyond. Participants will understand how and why gross motor skills developed through child-led play to support the foundational skills of literacy, explore and expand outdoor activities on their playground that promote the foundational skills of literacy, evaluate current outdoor activities and experiences with an 'Outdoor Literacy Checklist', and learn how to expand language arts outside by using natural materials and loose parts.

Jill Bienenstock is an early childhood educator who puts her expertise to use as the Director of Education at Bienenstock Natural Playgrounds. With over 30 years’ experience of which more than a decade was spent as an Early Childhood Educator (ECE) at children’s rehabilitation hospital, Jill focuses on ways to extend curriculum outdoors, noting how imperative it is for child development. Her goal is to make outdoor learning and play simple, fun, and memorable for both children and educators. She is inspired by the young people she works with and enjoys finding creative ways to transform outdoor ‘roadblocks’ into learning opportunities for all.

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