“Hey dad, look, a chicken! Perhaps (and fortunately) we are far from the image of that 90s advertisement”. However, recovering the authentic meaning of country life, which continues to surround us in our latitudes, compared to the abuse to which we are increasingly accustomed to technological devices within our homes, can be an effective path of civic education and mental hygiene.
Outdoor education can help establish positive and energetic bonds with nature and, therefore, with the environment, with the animals that share planet Earth with man and with our own kind. “It’s this too – he declares Teresa Pia Renzo – the method that the Magnolia accredited children’s center continues to prefer in the design and organization of the various educational outings on a periodic basis and during all the months of the school year for its young students”.
In recent days the older boys and girls were accompanied on a visit toNoah’s Arkan educational farm in Carolei, in the province of Cosenza, where they were also able to experiment with the art of clay, modelling, getting their hands and in some cases even their faces dirty, decorating with natural elements such as twigs, leaves and flowers collected personally.
They visited the stables and fed the horses, cows and ducks and took a ride on the pony, the mascot of Noah’s Ark. Lunch was consumed through a picnic in the farm’s grove, totally immersed in the greenery.
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