Our class has a community garden! I am so excited to watch it grow! We bought two boxes across the street from the school. We needed to weed it, dig it, up, add compost to it, make a sign, and plant the seeds. The watering has been left up to mother nature so far because it has been raining pretty frequently since we planted. This week we will be making little signs to show where we planted each crop. Our crops are: pumpkins, sunflowers, wild flowers, carrots, corn, peas, beans, lettuce, radishes, garlic shoots, and basil. This is something that the students are very in to! It has been very helpful in trying into both science and social studies lessons.
This is the sign our class made. Mitch found the driftwood for me. More pictures to come!
We have also planted some seeds in our classroom as an experiment to see what happens when we don't provide one of the three essentials to growing: light, CO2, and water. We have some plants that are not getting one or more of those three things vs. plants that we are taking care of regularly. So far our tomato plant has sprouted in the classroom! Woo-hoo!
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