A Brief Note On Lower Merion School District

“ There are your radish seeds everyone.” Said Mr. Susick. The whole class looked around at each other with a blank confused face. It was the first day of junior year in my English class. Mr. Susick started talking about how our first assignment would be to grow radishes. We were all thinking, how in the world does gardening relate to English class. I had heard about this project from previous juniors but none of them said what the real reason was. All Mr. Susick said was that you need to let the project teach itself and get into nature. He left us with one bit of information along with the requirements to start. The main goal of the assignment was to extract your own universal truths. For the first time in English class,

The two boys showed they were confidant and knowledgeable about gardening, for example they knew how to use a rake to mulch the garden and how to care for the plants (Elliott, 2014). As a future educator this example can be facilitated into a lesson by developing children’s knowledge on the environment, weather, and season pattern changes that cause the leaves to die and fall off trees (ACARA, 2015). Additionally, children also learn about composting and how these leaves provide essential nutrients to the soil for plants to grow and provide shelter and cover for animals and living things (ACARA, 2015). Children can also develop their science inquiry skills by questioning and predicting various trees and leaves and identify and analyse similarities and differences in the leaves by also using their senses to explore. Most importantly, by engaging children in the process of gardening, they begin to show respect for the environment and understand the importance of maintaining

Middlebury School is situated in the Champlain Valley between the Green Mountains and the Adirondacks in the residential community of Middlebury, Vermont. The Middlebury Jaguars have 31 NCAA Division III varsity groups and are individuals from the New Britain Little School Athletic Meeting. Understudies can join more than 150 associations

Now being at Richland Elementary School for about 8 weeks, I have a good sense of the people around me, the school itself, and myself in my role with the children. I do have to say that Mrs. Cambridge is outstanding with the children. She builds excellent rapport with them. I can recall a certain student was afraid of a certain movie being played one week, and he asked if he could go and sit with Mrs. Cambridge. This goes to show how much care and time Mrs. Cambridge puts into getting to know and building relationships with these students. It shows when a kid needs to be disciplined or talked to, and she is always good at handling the situation. The volunteers are also equally as good with the students. Many of the volunteers are soon to be

First, there is a fence wrapped around the garden. The garden accidentally fed deer, so they had to put up a wire fence so that the vegetables would still grow. The clubs have been adding beds for new science research and nematode research. Plant nematodes affect the plant because they are pathogens which destroy them. This results in major crop and money loss. In the Sabre Garden, we are experimenting with new ways to prevent this type of pathogen from happening. If insects try to eat the plants, they are killed in an organic, safe way. Everything in the garden is natural, including the fertilizer which eliminates the need for pesticides and any other harmful product. I also learned how we water all of the beds. We use a system call drip irrigation to eliminate the possibility of wasting water. The water goes into the ground to prevent overwatering, so when the plant needs water it can take it from this storage. The sprinkle was a prime example of wasting water because it would overwater, or miss the beds entirely. All of the crops that are harvested go to the Salvation Army. Last year alone, we gathered over 800 pounds of just food. This was exciting to hear how our smaller university has a huge impact on our

The landscape of your educational institution’s grounds is an integral part of everyday life on campus.Your students shelter in the shadow of its trees. The shrubbery and hedges border the confines of the lawns and sidewalks where they will think the thoughts, compose ideas, and create the memories that last a lifetime. Managing all of that can be a costly and time consuming endeavor, and there are many considerations you need to make, especially if your campus experiences all four changes of season every year.

A community garden can provide a student with hands on experience, also learning opportunities in a wide array of subject, such as science, math, and nutrition. Example of this is at Seven Oaks Middle School in Lebanon, Oregon.

I love how you mentioned that you will want to take your students on field trips to farms, etc. I agree with you because as adults we often make a lot assumptions about students’ knowledge about where food comes from and how it is grown. My daughter’s school has recently started using a community garden plot to teach the students’ about growing vegetables. It is the responsibility of the students’ to start the seedlings, plant the plants, weed the garden, harvest the vegetables, and finally taste the finished product. The K-2nd graders start the seedlings in early spring while the 3rd-5th grade plant the plants at the end of May. The families of the students are asked to sign up and donate time to weed garden throughout the summer until harvest time. When the students come back in August, they take a trip out to the garden to look at all their hard work. At this time, each grade gets part of the garden to harvest along with other activities associated with sustainable gardening. Once the veggies are brought to the school, the teachers along with the 5th graders, prepare the veggies to eat. This year I was lucky to help with this and I got to see firsthand how students were so excited to try the veggies they grew. Children who never even seen and/or heard about beets were eating them and

My interest in participating as a horticulture intern at The Polly Hill Arboretum is interwoven in my desire to acquire hands-on experience with plant material and expand my knowledge on what it takes to manage and maintain an Arboretum. Polly Hill’s devotion to education, plant conservation, and research resonates with my personal and educational experiences as a native New Yorker and Landscape Architecture major at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. The practice of horticulture is fundamental in sustaining beautiful landscapes and I wish to develop that notion through landscape maintenance and greenhouse/nursery management.

A. To put my plan into action I first need to approve the building of my garden with the principal of the school I plan to involve in this project. There is not much high tech equipment needed for this project; however, I will need to use a garden hose, a garden hoe, and small gardening shovels. After getting approval and equipment together I will need to gather my resources including wood, dirt, a variety of plants, and peat. Then in the spring the garden will be created. First, the raised garden boxes will be constructed, filled with soil and peat. After the garden's soil has been mixed with the peat and sat for a few days it will be time to plant the seeds and buds. As the plants grow there will be necessary weeding and watering of the garden.

A grant from the Captain Planet Foundation helped students from The Drop-In Learning Center plan and plant a Peace Garden, using native and butterfly-friendly plants. The garden was planted in Riverside Park in New London, CT, an 18-acre park located in a neighborhood with a high percentage of residents living in multi-family housing, with limited yards.

Explain to the parents that today we learned about how to grow healthy vegetables and that we also planted our own bean sprouts in the classroom. Have the parents help their child plant the grass seeds using the materials that are provided. Explain to the parents that they should allow their child to water their grass seeds as needed and allow them to take care of the plant. This is not going to come to school; however, I will ask the students about their grass seeds from time-to-time. If the parent wants to take pictures and either bring them in or send them to me by email, that is okay and we will look at them as a whole

People in this segment are likely to be retiring in the near future, which implies that they will have the income and leisure time to work on their gardening projects. By targeting this segment, we are attempting to increase their average yearly orders and average order value, which will eventually drive up sales. Since this group of individuals already possess a strong passion for gardening and are already Lee Valley’s best customers, we believe that the desire and need to purchase additional products will increase as this segment is retired, or will be retiring in due course.

When looking at all the Common Core Standards there were many standards that could be incorporated into a lesson about gardening, so many that we chose six of them. The first one we chose was CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1. In this standard, students would ask and answer questions demonstrating that they understand the text. A way to incorporate this into a classroom would be to ask students questions, about gardening and plants,before you read aloud a book about gardens to them. Instead of having the students answer the questions right away, have them think about these questions while you read aloud the book. After you finish reading

Gardening can range from fruit orchards to residential yards to fields with rows of crops. It involves a very active participation in the growing of plants and includes labor intensive activities. Gardening can be considered a relaxing activity for many individuals. Many classrooms and parents have taken to teaching their children the skills of gardening at a young age. Involving children in the process of growing their own food improves their fitness, causes them to eat healthier, makes them feel pride in growing something, gives them a sense of self-reliance and instills in them skills and values that become important for the rest of their lives.