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I am a pre-service teacher as well as a nanny to two young boys! My favorite thing to do with them is go on nature walks. If you are lucky enough to be in a school that has a garden or land lab near you, just taking students on a walk with paper and crayons does amazing things, especially for their observation skills! They are able to come up with questions about the world around them and make observations about everything they see. If you do not have a land lab, taking a walk around your building or the neighborhood around your school is a perfect way to introduce them to nature as well! Make sure you have all the necessary field trip forms signed though (when I was in elementary school we used to take walks around the neighborhood and had to have one permission slip for walks in general, not specific dates).
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