Forest School: Helping Children Connect 和自然连接：北京的森林学校
What is Forest School? Read this recent Beijing Kids article to discover how this unique programme offered by YCIS Beijing can benefit your child.
什么是森林学校？请阅读最近《北京儿童》杂志发布的文章，了解一下这如何能让您的孩子受益。
When I was young we lived in a house with a forest behind it. Let me clarify: my brothers and I would open the garden gate to the forest! I never knew how lucky I was until I lived with my toddler and husband in London with no forest in sight.
我小时候就住在森林旁边。我的哥哥弟弟和我常常会打开公园的门去森林。直到我和丈夫、孩子住在伦敦，看不到森林的时候，我才知道我小时候是多么的幸运。
I took her to Forest School playgroups in parks to do the things my brothers and I would do so many years ago in the forest behind our home. I watched with wonder how she played with sticks and leaves. It's hard to find sticks and leaves in Beijing parks so she treasures them like they are family. Yes, she pretends sticks are her brothers and sisters. (I wonder if she is trying to tell me something.)
我带着我女儿参加在公园举办的森林学校活动小组，带着女儿做各种我小时候在森林玩的游戏。我看着她玩树枝和树叶。在北京的公园里，我们很难找到树枝和树叶，因此，我女儿都把这些树枝树叶当成自己的家人。真的，她假装树枝就是她的兄弟姐妹（其实我也很想知道她是怎么想的）。
Karen Killeen is a Learning Support Teacher at Yew Chung International School of Beijing (YCIS Beijing) 北京耀中国际学校, and we asked her what Forest School means.
Karen Killeen 是北京耀中国际学校的特殊教育老师。我们向她请教了森林学校的含义。
She explained, “Forest School is a methodology. It started in Scandinavia in the ’70s, and now there are lots of kindergartens in Europe where children spend all day outside, learning and discovering. It is gaining popularity in the UK and many primary schools have access to a Forest School area which they use. It's about using nature, or the 'forest' as your classroom and your resources. Playing outdoors supports physiological development in children and connecting with nature supports positive emotional well being.”
她解释到：“森林学校是一个方法论。它起源于七十年代的斯堪的纳维亚半岛，现在已经遍布欧洲各地的幼儿园——孩子们会整天在户外探索、学习和发现。这个方法在英国越来越受欢迎，许多小学都开始着手应用森林学校的想法。其实这是回到自然，把森林作为孩子的教室以及学习资源。在户外学习和晚上能够有效地支持孩子的体能发展，而且和自然界多结束能让孩子感受更多积极向上的心理状态。”
(By Pauline van Hasselt).
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