We celebrate April being the Month of the Military Child by wearing purple to school. During our outdoor learning session, we thought about the children with military parents whose families might work away from home or who have moved around the country for their parent’s job.

The emblem of the Month of the Military Child is a dandelion because it is strong and resilient. As part of our learning, we first found strong things in our nature area and considered what helps us to stay strong when something is tricky. We then thought about the fact that dandelions grow all sorts of places and found the dandelions growing around us. We then thought about each family being different but special in their own way. Finally, we learnt a calming strategy where we held a dandelion, took a big breath in to smell the dandelion and then blew out to blow the dandelion clock away.