Nature play is not limited to the playground itself but extends around the school to other elements like the Children’s Garden at our entry, the fort building village by the field and our outdoor classroom table.

Picasso Pit-art tables both vertical and horizontal and an art drying line.Rock n Roll Station-the musical feature with a pipe structure and suspended pots and pans and surrounded by tree round seats.The Playhouse Stage-complete with curtains at the back of the playhouse used for unstructured play as well as official musical instruction with our drum circle.

Neverland-climbing, balancing on the tightrope, fort building, pretend play with our rowboat.The Messy Room-mud kitchen, digging area and pretend play.Our playground includes major features, but isn’t limited to: In the process of creating this nature Explore Outdoor Classroom, we’ve nurtured a culture of natural education and exploration that is a truly organic offshoot of our 10 acres of wetlands and woodlands. A group of GHA families and staff came together to create the natural playground funded at our 2015 auction. This is a regular scene on our playground at GHA. Master Chefs are marinating in our mud kitchen, Captain Hook has just invaded Neverland, while Cinderella dances on our playhouse stage. I look forward to reading more books by Emmaline Andrews to see if she lives up to creative promise.Nurturing the Earth’s Caretakers through Play The book did keep me intrigued, and I enjoyed reading it however, I gave it two stars because I felt like this book could have been so much more. more ched and tired girl pretends to be a boy in an all-male environment and the stale plotlines that go with it. Instead this unique and special universe was white-walled over with the cli.

There was so much potential to explore how this universe came about, why humans were in the new Solar System, how they choose which moons to populate, etc. The universe the author created was amazing. Review 2: I wanted to really like this book. It does happy a happy ending too, so yes I liked this book. It was a fun read, that I enjoyed, and had me cheering the two main characters on. The difficulties she went through, while posing as her brother, so she could go to his school was well thought out. Review 1: This book was sort of a mash up between victorian era, sci-fi, and YA.

The Academy by Emmaline Andrews