WATCH: Correspondent Nancy West discusses the rising education trend of nature-based preschools, a program that takes learning from indoors to the outdoors. Parents might gauge their child’s progress ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - A new preschool is promising children will get 'so messy” while also being prepared for kindergarten at a new nature-based preschool program launching this fall. Children will spend up ...

Howard County Conservancy’s Nature Preschool makes use of the Carriage House at the Belmont Manor and Historic Park for some of its indoor learning. Three-year-old Reagan Rogers uses a sifter to ...

Wonder Bloom and Tracy Aviary have partnered to launch Utah's first licensed nature-based preschool, located at the aviary's 12-acre Nature Center at Pia Okwai in South Salt Lake.

Outdoor preschools are popular in Colorado, but a lack of licensing has meant parents couldn’t take advantage of the state’s universal pre-K funds—until now. Kate Strebe’s daughter, Maya, is an ...

Sometimes, when she is sitting at her desk at work, Maggie Jones admits being envious of her 31/2-year-old daughter, Annabel, in preschool. “I think, my kid is on a hike right now,” Jones said. “It’s ...

DULUTH — It was 8:30 a.m. on a Tuesday and the regular crowd shuffled in. Some came bundled in backpacks. A few were being towed in sleds. Some walked, holding their parents' hands, at least until ...

Liam and his 3- to 5-year-old classmates sat around a large picnic table in the Bob Jones Nature Center and Preserve, feet dangling from the bench, as they learned about the life cycle of frogs.

Nature Preschool at Chippewa Nature Center, located at 400 S Badour Road in Midland, will begin registration for the 2022-23 school year, its 16th year of operation, on Monday, Dec. 6. Classes are ...

Legs encased in tiny waders, 4-year-old Nikole Cardenas Garcia earlier this month walked through a shallow section of Lafayette’s Coal Creek, plucking a small, smooth rock out of the creek bed. She ...