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Children thrive outdoors by running, climbing, exploring nature, using their imagination and playing with others. Outdoor play helps children build strong bodies, social skills, confidence, creativity and problem solving skills.

Outdoor play is important because it supports children’s physical, emotional, social and cognitive development. It also helps children connect with nature, learn independence and in Inuit culture, learn from the land and traditional experiences.

Verna

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It is important to go outside so the child will get their restless body tired. They are able to learn to do outdoor activities. Like making a snowman making some other snow sculptures, how to build an igloo. For infants it will help them learn how to walk on the snow.

Karen

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Children thrive outdoors by using their senses and their imagination, they gain more control of their bodies from learning how to balance, exercise and breathing.

Outdoor play is crucial for children because it helps with their development by using their gross motor skills, it can help strengthen and improve on their muscles and respiratory system to maintain a healthy body and mind.

-Angel Ruth

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Why it is important to go outside for children.

It is important because it will show children we can be outside doing things like, building an igloo or any shoveling when there’s snow on our deck. Playing outside can help their health, to make their lungs stronger. It is normal to want to go outside for children because it will burn their energy. It will help them build their walking ability stronger. It will show the children what animals we can see outside. What we can see outside like building or transpotration.

Holly

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Children thrive outdoors by learning sensory play(playing with sand, snow, mud). It fosters physical development (walking, running, climbing, which are all gross motor skills). It is crucial for child development because being outside can build their immune system, so they won’t easily get sick as they grow. It is also important they get time outdoors so they can learn to respect the world they live in. An example is last summer we went on a nature walk, putting packing tape as bracelets on the children’s wrist to add things onto the tape from the natural world. (Leaves, twigs, flower pedals).

-Lisa

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Various ways children thrive outdoors is having an open space to do whatever they can come up with. Like making inukshuk out of rocks, collect rocks, play in the sand, making sand castle, jumping on rocks, going on walks and seeing nature, going on field trips and exploring the land. Running around on the land. They can enjoy those activity during spring, summer and fall. During winter, they can enjoy outdoors by making snowman, snow angels, sliding on sleds, having kool aid art on the snow, shovel the snow and look for animal tracks during winters

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Walking, running, curiosity, cognitive, language developmental are ways to thrive outdoors. Children can always get curious outdoors from different vehicles such as heavy equipment as they are quite a few that are out when they’re outdoors as well. Outdoor play is just as important inside, it helps with their development of cognitive, learning to make new friends and helps them socially, physically, helps them be on the move and helps them to be more confident.

Hattie Aningaat

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What are the various ways children thrive outdoors, and why is outdoor play crucial for child development?

Children thrive with outdoor play, physically, socially, cognitively. This helps them explore new feelings. Helps them develop socially by having fun outdoor play, that is mostly child led. They develop physically by walking around, jumping around, and educators may put out cognitive play like learning how to spell, learning shapes, learning colours for them to write or use different things like painting on rocks or the ground.

Robin

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Children thriving outdoors and why is outdoor crucial for children development?

Children can become curious when they are outside, they can see things they haven’t seen before and become curious and ask questions about one thing they seen and don't know about.

Children being outside helps to develop with their exploration, when children come outside they like to explore new things. Exploring is a way of learning, they can see a plant they haven’t seen before and ask questions about it. They can climb big rocks and develop gross motor skills. Children can build sand castles and figure out that it is best built with water, that’ll help keep it together.

-Hilary

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Outdoor play

It’s important for children to play outdoors on a regular basis.

Outdoor play helps children learn and experience outdoor play, by playing in muddy puddles, making sand castle and using toy loader and dump trucks help children learn to play with mud, water and sand.

Or wether it’s winter or spring time children learn and observe to make a snow man, (snow ball).

Children need to play outdoors because it’s good for their body to have some fun outside before being comfortable inside. It’s good to keep children energized outside, it is spring time now and children are wanting to stay outside because it’s warmer and longer daylight. They like to explore and experience the outdoors, viewing animals like ground squirrels (Siksik), bunting birds, geese, seagulls, and lemmings. Outdoor play.

Janaya Angelina

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It is very important to let children play outdoors because they need some fresh air, during winter they could build snowman, igloo, play with loaders, go sliding, using cognitive and fine motor skills, they could learn new development skills, and during summer, we go for nature walks developing physical skills by walking at least an hour, using sensory skills during summer, by playing with sand, rocks, water, toy cars, sand box toys…at the land they start to berry pick, the children even start to use their imagination on the big rocks on the nuna. during winter they go to the land (nuvuttuaq) we go fishing, go sliding, eat outdoors have hot chocolate….

-krisy

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What are the various ways children thrive outdoors, and why is outdoor play crucial for child development?