6/13-6/21 CNI & Blueberry Atelier Partner with Natural History Museum!

See our June Calendar of Events for other local nature activities.

I urge all parents and educators to go see this exhibit on view at the Natural History Museum. Children’s Nature Institute is a leader in providing urban youth with nature experiences. I also had the opportunity to hear the director of Blueberry Atelier speak at last year’s CNI Urban Nature Week forum. Her perspective on education is moving and inspirational. Please go see what beauty this collaboration has acheived.

-Ilana Gustafson Turner

Information from the CNI website is below:

Join The Children’s Nature Institute and Blueberry Atelier as they present

“A Sense of Wonder, A Sense of Place: Viewing Nature Through the Images and Words of Our Children”

June 13-21, 2009

In partnership with The Natural History Museum’s Sustainable Sundays, this week-long interactive exhibit will feature the poetry and photography of budding environmentalists in Blueberry’s preschool class. Entrance to the event is included with the cost of museum admission.

Over the past year, Blueberry Atelier Family Child Care and The Children’s Nature Institute (CNI) have been working in collaboration to offer unique, hands-on nature experiences for the parents and children of Blueberry. Once a month, CNI educators, Blueberry teachers, parents and children embarked on an exploration of Temescal Canyon. This canyon became a classroom without walls; filled with places that fed our spirits, imaginations and souls. Through these dynamic experiences, nature came alive in the hands, hearts and minds of the children.

We invite you share this journey as seen through the eyes and ears of our children.

http://www.childrensnatureinstitute.org/index.html