Joey Pasco wouldn't have necessarily described his daughter Aurelia as the "outdoorsy" type before. Then his wife heard about this place, Notchcliff Nature Programs, in Glen Arm. “We knew it was all outdoors, and we thought - let's give it a try,” he recalled thinking. “And it's gone so well that we've been here for three years.” And clearly Aurelia, who climbed a tree while we talk to her dad, has taken to the nature-based schooling as well. “Rather than having kids cooped up in a school that may or may not even have windows in the classroom, things like that, I think this is - there's something to being in nature and learning, especially at a younger age that you can't get in a building,” Pasco told WMAR-2 News. And when we say nature-based, we mean it. Barring a severe weather emergency, kids here are outside all day, year-round - rain, sleet, or shine. #daycare #preschool #nature #news