"The best and most cohesive way to solidify and bolster your approach is to create a platform for partnership. In this way, the environment is created and sustained by everyone who will interact with it during every season—from falling leaves, to caterpillars and hatching eggs, to buzzing mosquitoes, and then on through the mud and snow. The parents, children, and teachers live and learn alongside each other through rain and shine, receiving all the myriad benefits the outdoors have to offer." Read this post here...http://naturalstart.org/feature-stories/co-creating-learning-environments-parents-children-and-teachers