5月30日，来自卡尔加里市的冒险游戏领导小组访问了Children’s Village School。一大早，他们卸下了一个装满了轮胎、绳子、防水布、管道、板条、旧游乐设备和各种其他可爱的“垃圾”的箱式货车。一天之内，建筑物、平衡木、弹弓、角落商店和太空船等开始出现。孩子们跳上、翻过、爬下这些东西，建造结构物，拆解结构物，绑扎东西，挖洞，讲故事。他们玩耍，他们学习。太美妙了。

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职业治疗师埃琳·科瓦克首先与卡尔加里市的代表建立了联系。她一直与两位老师紧密合作，全年通过游戏促进学习，到了让他们自由玩耍扩展到更大规模的户外探索的时候。在冒险游戏日之前，市政府人员为Children's Village School的工作人员举办了一次课后培训。他们介绍了创造动态空间的过程，让孩子们能够创造、探索、想象和学习，并回答了有关实践和安全性的问题。市政府的工作人员参与了Children's Village School的第一个游戏和学习日，给学生和教职员工提供支持和指导。

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Children’s Village School的学生们对冒险游戏非常喜爱他们为此感到骄傲，描述了他们创造和经历的冒险。一位Children's Village School的心理学家评论说，对于我们的学生来说，这种体验具有巨大的价值，因为可持续的想象力和创造性游戏对于那些倾向于冲动、缺乏灵活性或反应性的孩子来说非常有价值。一位教师评论说，她希望每天都能将冒险游戏作为学习的一部分。

Children’s Village School目前正在建立自己的杂物推车，供教师们带到户外，以支持他们的孩子通过游戏学习。我们非常感激卡尔加里市所提供的支持和专业知识，帮助我们开始这个学习之旅。

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​On May 30, a crew of Adventure Play leaders from the City of Calgary visited Children’s Village School.  Early in the morning, they unloaded a cube van filled with tires, ropes, tarps, pipes, crates, barrels, boards, pieces of old playground equipment and all sorts of other lovely ‘junk’. Over the course of the day, forts, balance beams, slingshots, corner stores and spaceships emerged.  Kids climbed on, over and under things, built structures, deconstructed structures, tied things up, dug holes, and told stories. They played. They learned. It was beautiful.

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Occupational Therapist, Erin Novak, first made the connection with representatives from the City; she had been working closely with two teachers to facilitate learning through play all year, and the time was right for their loose parts play to extend to larger-scale outdoor exploration. Prior to the Adventure Play day, City staff hosted an after school in-service with CVS staff. They described the process of creating dynamic spaces where children can create, explore, imagine and learn, and they answered questions from CVS staff about both pragmatics and safety. City staff joined CVS’ first day of play and learning, providing support and guidance for both students and staff.

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Children’s Village students loved Adventure Play—they beamed with pride while describing what they had created and the adventures they had experienced. A CVS psychologist commented on the value of this kind of experience for our students, noting that the opportunity for sustained imaginative, creative play has tremendous value for kids whose learning profiles tend towards impulsivity, inflexibility or reactivity. One teacher commented that she wished she could make Adventure Play part of learning every day.

Children’s Village School is currently in the process of building our own trolley of loose parts that teachers can bring outside to support their children in learning through play. We are so appreciative of the supports and expertise provided by the City of Calgary to help us get started on this learning journey.