<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #2476db;">The Natural Playscape</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The educators at Beacon Hill Nursery school are extremely proud of the schools’ natural playscape and nature curriculum. Originally a city playground, deeded to the school years ago by the mayor, the space is now a wonderment of nature – complete with rolling hills and a babbling brook, instead of static slides and swings. The playscape came to fruition after Executive Director Lucinda Ross did some research regarding the lack of exposure to nature our children have on a daily basis compared to previous generations. The new space features natural music, a fort constructed of trees, a water fall with moveable rocks (children can change the current, or build dams), a slide built into a grassy hill, a sandbox and a natural amphitheater to hold classes.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Children are able to use the space to explore, make discoveries, and use their imaginations in contact with nature.  Additionally, our in-house nature curriculum inspires children to learn more about the world around them, and their place within it.  We hope our natural playscape will recapture some the magic that most of us remember from our youth – magic that begins with creating a world through play and nature, and never ends! </span></p>