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Cedarsong Nature School is an early education nature immersion program based on the German forest kindergarten model. The students are children ages 2–6 and the curriculum is based on interaction with the environment and establishing a connection to the natural world through play. Founded in 2006 by naturalists and childhood educators Erin K. Kenny and Robin Rogers, Cedarsong was the first school in the United States to open a forest kindergarten, and as of February 2015[update] was the only school in the United States offering Forest Kindergarten Teacher Training and Certification.[1] The school is located on a five-acre campus on Vashon Island, Washington and serves the Greater Seattle area.
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edit- ^ "Cedarsong Forest Kindergarten Teacher Training and Certification". Cedarsong Nature School. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
- "In Washington State, a Forest Preschool Holds Class No Matter What the Weather Brings". Fox News. Associated Press. 24 May 2010.
- Valdes, Manuel (24 May 2010). "At Forest Preschool, Mud Is a Lesson". KOMO News. Associated Press.
- Baldwin, Kristin. "Immersion Program". Sierra Magazine. Sierra Club. November/December 2010
- Finan, Eileen (28 February 2011). "Forest Kindergarten: Woodland Creatures". People Magazine.
- Alfonsi, Sharyn; Fahy, Ursula (1 April 2011). "Outdoor Preschool Shows Wild Side of Learning". ABC News.
- Wilson, Ruth A. (Winter 2012). "Teaching Among the Trees". American Forests.
- Kenny, Erin K. (31 August 2013). Forest Kindergartens: The Cedarsong Way. Cedarsong Nature School. ISBN 0615849202.
- "No Snowdays or Textbooks at this Puget Sound School". Al Jazeera America. 29 January 2014.[dead link]
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