Life Indoors

Our Science Center Comes to Life!

Broccoli, planted by the kindergarteners.

Rainbow Swiss Chard

Little Baby Kale Plant

Lettuce!

We got worms.  Our new class pets are red worms - thousands of them!  Our worms decompose our own food scraps and create nutrient-rich "vermicopost" (aka worm poop).  It's SOO good for our plants!

Sowing the Seeds

We're itching to get planting, but the winter is draaaaggggingggg on.  We bide our time with Fruit and Veggie Jeopardy (thanks Mr. Sam)!

Tomatoes are actually a fruit!  Did YOU know?

The boys are SERIOUS about this game!

The girls give them a run for their money, but the BOYS end up taking the win!

We also explore seed catalogs and decide what we want to grow.

Thoughtfully writing down her favorites. . .

The girls like the colorful varieties.

FINALLY we can start working the soil and planting some early SUGAR SNAP PEAS!!

Getting the beds ready for planting.

Rake the soil smooth…

The Crew.

The seeds.

We cover the seeds that the kindergardeners will water later in the afternoon.  It's a group effort in our School Garden!

Winter

Winter in the Garden

Snow covers the ground through the winter...

 and into the spring!

But we stay busy while we wait for the ground to thaw.

They boys check out some responses to "What We Know" and "What We Want to Know" about farming and the food system.

 Good questions!  Hopefully, we will have answers soon…

The following week, we braved the cold and took some measurements.

 Here's Mr. Daniel supervising the surveyors.

 Nice team work, boys.

 The Blue Team records their measurements.

The girls measure the perimeter of the bed.  Back in the classroom, we will determine how many transplants we will need based on space requirements.