Yes, a school near my parents' house in Michigan did this! They built several large outdoor pavilions and also have a clearing in the adjoining woods that they hold classes in. I visited in the dead of winter and sure enough, there were about 100 kids out in the freezing cold all day long. Even from a distance, you could see that they were bundled up in multiple layers to keep warm. I was back recently and they still do outdoor classes, but I think it is only for a portion of the day now as I didn't see nearly as many students outside at a time.

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My older kid’s school was founded in the 1915 respiratory pandemic era and had a significant outdoor component for the intervening 100 years.

They still closed for part of the time early in COVID, but quickly switched to partial in-person with significant outdoor time. I think it was effective, surely better educationally and socially than my younger’s elementary school that stayed closed for a far longer time.

Not entirely but my kids' K-8 has pushed some of their classes outside (mostly science) to their local "woods" (a part of the land parcel of the school that's not developed and has trees, a pond and some work tables). Also a lot of effort was done during the pandemic to do events outside (like music) in the quad area. Also all meals have been outdoors (indoor not possibly during pandemic) - I remember this being the case even when I was in school in this area.

Being in CA, that's easy year round due to milder weather.

That said, the effort was nothing close to outdoors all the time, which has significant challenges.

This is exactly what schools did in Israel. There were two different approaches that were juggled depending on the situation - but all schools did this. The culture already existed somewhat - since varying classes have always been outside.

1. Divide into "capsules" where people could learn indoors but with half of the cohort - spread apart, windows open, masked, etc.

2. Learn outside with forms of this.

Youth groups, scouts, synagogues, etc all did the latter. I spent the better part of a year praying in a parking lot or a park with others. Entire communities were doing shared meals - just spread apart. The park across the street from my place had a lot of picnicking going on.

As an example, the local Planetarium rejigged to do outdoor events. They were so popular that the planetarium continues to do ~40% of each season's lineup outside.

There are open air preschools in the Bay Area. The weather being temperate year round helps a lot as well.

The open air day cares in my hometown in Sweden never closed afaik. The ones in the pildammsparken park of Malmö, anyone noticed if they closed during covid?

I just remember walking my dog there daily and seeing kids.

Something I’ve noticed in this thread is that Californians think they’re the only people with nice weather.