Tracy Aviary won’t just nurture birds and other wildlife — it plans to nurture some of Utah’s youngest minds when it opens a first-of-its-kind preschool next year.
The aim? To keep children outside.
“Anything you can do inside, you can do outside. We do art, literacy and building blocks in the open air,” Sarah Stone, founder of Wonderbloom Nature Play School, said while announcing the preschool’s partnership Friday at the aviary’s Nature Center in South Salt Lake.
“Ultimately, the goal of Wonderbloom is to teach children through nature and about nature so that, eventually, they can become the ultimate conservationists and help preserve our Earth for years to come,” Stone said…