The garden has been prepared for the winter. Although I will not be here throughout the winter months, I encourage you to watch for changes in the garden.Throughout October and November, the garden has been full of activity from cider pressing to planting winter wheat to pulling up the plants. Here are just a few awesome ways teachers have been using the garden:
- Special Start students in Sandra McCluskey and Kerri Niles' classes helped pull out plants to prepare the garden for winter.
- Kindergarten students in Ms. Della Calce's class learned about how pumpkins grow, what is inside them, and carved a pumpkin in the garden.
- Ms. Frazier and Mrs. Miller's fifth grade classes are measuring the growth of winter wheat in the garden, one of the first domesticated plants in Mesopotamia thousands of years ago.
- Mr. Hyland's fourth grade students measured soil depth to monitor soil erosion over the winter.
Almost every class had the opportunity to make cider!
It has been a fun and busy fall, Enjoy the winter. See you in April.
Michele Kaufman