How to have a Peaceful Playground - 1999 Aria Lopez-Rosende Principal, Pioneer Elementary I first learned about Peaceful Playgrounds (PP) as a classroom teacher over 10 years ago and heard about the resulting reduction in playground problems. Then I became I Principal of Pioneer Elementary in Escondido and realized that with a playground of [...]
School Playgrounds Can Be Safe by Dr. Melinda Bossenmeyer, The Recess Doctor School Safety Update - October 1998 New Program Improves Playground Safety National School Safety Center Pepperdine University - Malibu, CA "As a playground supervisor, playground safety is of upmost importance. A playground supervisor at an [...]
Add Colorful Painted Playground Games to Increase Game Participation Summer 2002 School adds colorful playground game markings. By Greg Bennett Today's Playground Magazine There is much more to a school playground than the local play structure. Colorful painted games can add basketball courts, and playground games. There are open areas to play on [...]
A School Recess Like It's Suppose To Be By Jane Long The Breeze-Courier September 2003 North School PTA organizes school into a Peaceful Playground which reduced playground problems and conflicts. Taylorville - A playground - it's supposed to provide young students with a time to release pent up energy after sitting at [...]
September 2003 Sample school playground design by Peaceful Playgrounds. By Lynn Atkins Rogers Hometown News At Bellview Elementary, the newest tool for teachers measures 40 feet by 100 feet. It's their new school playground design by Peaceful Playgrounds. It's also the perfect example of teamwork between the school, the parents and the city, [...]
August 2004 Goffstown News Painting the playground games like 4 square and hopscotch. Recess at Center Woods Elementary School will be a lot more interesting and fun this year. As part of the Peaceful Playgrounds program, volunteers have been painting playground games such as hopscotch, pickle, around the world, four square, and [...]
Redlands Daily Facts August 2004 Students play on school playground new target games. In 1973, an idea struck Los Angeles educator Melinda Bossenmeyer after years of being a teacher and a principal within the Riverside County Department of Education. "I noticed that some kids didn't have many of the skills necessary to [...]
Kane County Chronicle[jwplayer mediaid="874"] September 2004 The action was fast-paced as fifth-graders at Wild Rose Elementary School learned the rules of new playground games. Bean bag four square involves tossing and catching a bean bag with a scoop. "It's fun because it's very athletic," student Cameron Staroske said. The rules to the playground games are [...]
January 2005 The new rules and behavior expectations. New behavior expectations state, "go down the slide only on your bottom." Corvallis Gazette-Times As a second-grader slips down the covered slide at Philomath's Clemens Primary School on his tummy Thursday morning, school behavior assistant Cheri Stouder blows her whistle. Stouder has been watching [...]
April 2005 Southwest Journal - Minneapolis, MN Peaceful Playground Take Shape At Armatage Later this year, a giant, colorful U.S. playground map and grids for math problems and wordplay games will be spray-painted on a freshly paved "Peaceful Playground" at Armatage Community and Montessori School, 2501 W. 56th St. Armatage's existing playground looks more like [...]
By Julie Murphy Harold-Advocate - Park Ridge, IL September 1, 2005 Cooperative games is an important part of new playground. Old school yard favorites such as hopscotch and four square are re-emerging at the schools within Park Ridge - Niles Elementary District 64. Parent and teacher volunteers have painted the playground surfaces of [...]
By Nicole Wagner Mount Prospect Times - Park Ridge, IL November 3, 2005 Students learn new elementary school playground games with new Peaceful Playgrounds Program. A divided white rectangle marks the most popular piece of asphalt on the Indian Grove Elementary School playground. Children say they love bounceball, foursquare, hopscotch and other games [...]
The Boston Globe - New Boston, NH November 2006 They didn't get the water slide they wanted, but they got almost everything else. At New Boston Central School the new playground is not the traditional playground. Children helped design and construct the 35-foot (dry) slide built into a hillside, the fitness course that winds [...]
By Cheri Carlson Ventura County Star Newspaper October 2007 New playground game markings boost physical activity. New playground game markings boost physical activity at Camarillo school. Getting students active is a goal of most schools since the majority of students in elementary school do not get the 60 minutes a day of recommended physical activity. [...]
March 2008 Burbank Leader - Burbank, CA Bringing peace to a school playground may not be easy. During a game of four-square at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School Wednesday, second-graders Luis Reyes, 7, and Cassidy McNeill, 8, reached an impasse over a point. “It was in,” Luis said. “It’s out!” Cassidy fired back. But before the [...]
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