Not your typical playground. Our desire is to instill wonder in play.  Tree stumps to sit on, ninja balancing ropes, building materials, areas to lay down and read, all things exploring! Our Wonderspace is in the development stage, with our students' participation, so we look forward to what this will become!  
 
In the Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds (2007), the American Academy of Pediatrics says:

“Play is integral to the academic environment. It ensures that the school setting attends to the social and emotional development of children as well as their cognitive development. It has been shown to help children adjust to the school setting and even to enhance children’s learning readiness, learning behaviors, and problem-solving skills. Social-emotional learning is best integrated with academic learning; it is concerning if some of the forces that enhance children’s ability to learn are elevated at the expense of others. Play and unscheduled time that allow for peer interactions are important components of social-emotional learning.”
 
More on Wonderspace to come!