wednesday = garden fun day!

Another great day in the garden with the first, kindergarden, and pre-school classes. There are snap peas, beans galore and flax + linnea + sweetpea blooms everywhere. Nothing makes a gardener happier than kids scrambling to eat peas off the vine!

room 4's jade plant cuttings

Mr. Lee's first grade class brought up their designed pots and started some jade plant cuttings. The kids will bring home the plants after they have rooted, just in time for Mother's Day.

Aside from the beautiful flowers, we also discovered some green strawberries and sweetpea pods coming up.

early spring is here

After a number of very wet weeks we were able to finally spend some time up in the garden. Even though the kids missed spending time with the plants, the plants certainly needed the rain and all of our patience was well rewarded with numerous blooms and new growth.

more journals from room 19

greetings from room 19

We have been going to the garden for a long time and learning about plants and writing in our journals about our plants. -Patty

If there aren't any worms in our garden the soil wouldn't be very good. -Roberto

There's beautiful flowers in our garden. -Michelle

We have chickweeds in our garden and you can tell what's a chickweed because it has a little thread in the stem.
-Victoria

rainy days with room 19

The last few weeks have been too wet and rainy in the garden to do much so the students have been making hand bound sketchbook/journals. Here's a sample from the 4th grade class.