The McMillan Sisters

The McMillan Sisters

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Forest schools help develop what kinds of skills?

Rachel McMillan

1859-1917

Margaret McMillan

1860-1931

Forest Schools

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Programs with the belief that by participating in engaging, motivating and achievable tasks and activities in a woodland environment, each child has an opportunity to develop intrinsic motivation and sound emotional and social skills.

Which one of the sisters was deaf until the age of 14?

A forest school is the equivalent to open air nursery school.

Where did the Forest School originate?

An Open Air Nursery school demonstrates what?

Rachel was the older of the two sisters.

Margaret was deaf until the age of 14 from Scarlet fever.

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The Forest school originated in Scandinavia

Forest school came from the idea of using the environment which the McMillan sisters believed in and followed.

What year did the sisters open the Open Air Nursery school?

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Where were the McMillan sisters born?

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What idea helped create Forest Schools?

Open Air Nursery School

What was the age range at the Open Air Nursery school?

In 1914, the first open air nursery school was opened in London.

The age ranged anywhere from 18 months to 7 years.

Environmentalism was incorporated into this type of schooling.

The McMillan sisters were both born in New York but returned to their home in Scotland after their fathers death in 1865.

The sisters were social reformers in England, tackling the issue of poverty as a result of the industrial revolution.

The McMillan sisters believed in education where young children could explore their imaginations, develop their sensory and care for gardens and pets.

The sisters focused on a childs "sense of wonder" and believed teachers must know what attracts a child and engages their attention.

This program was designed to identify health problems before they entered into formal schooling

As adults, the sisters moved to England in search of work which consisted of:

-visiting the homes of the poor and leading them to lives of social activism.

-focusing on improving the lives of the "slum child".

One specific theorists they followed to create this kind of schooling was Rousseau.

An open air nursery school

demonstrates nurture as well

at learning.

They advocated for school meals and opened one of England's first school based health clinic.

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In our classroom today:

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What did the McMillan sisters advocate?

What was one of the purpose of the Open Air Nursery school?

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-gardens

ex. plants and outdoor garden

-pets

ex. fish

-imagination stations

ex. puppet shows and dress up

-sensory

ex. sand box, nature walks, outside class and play.

Where was the first Open Air Nursery school located?

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www.earlychildhoodhistory.weebly.com/the-nursery-school.html

Who was the theorists that the McMillan sister followed the ideas of?

www.electricscottland.com/history/women/wh31.htm

www.chelseaopenairnursery.co.uk