Giggles, Dirt, & Wonder: A Garden Adventure

Well, the rain is back today, so I'm glad we were able to visit the garden last Friday.  As promised, here is the post I mentioned would show up today...

Several weeks ago we planted some sunflower seeds.  Here is how they look now.  The kids are surprised!  Just wait until they see the plants in August!

Growing seeds in our classroom has also been a part of this project.  We've got some green pepper plants in our room that we are monitoring, but we also decided to plant some that were already started at the garden center.  Our teacher did the hard work here:

Gardening is a lot of work, so it's good that we had the opportunity to experience it.  There is another garden plot available in our Outdoor Education Area, so we decided to take it over.

We found another area and decided to try and get rid of the weeds - looks like a BIG job - but someone has to do it.  One of the kids must work at his family garden.  He told us "be sure to get the roots, too, or they'll just grow back."  Good reminder!

As we wandered around the Outdoor Education Area (our school garden), one child remembered the "Peter Rabbit" story we shared last week.  She saw one of the garden areas had protected the plants with sticks.  She proudly shared, "there won't be any bunnies eating those plants."  Hopefully she's right!

Finally, as we work with our garden project, we are learning about good soil and how to take care of it.  Our school principal (an avid gardener, too) made a compost pile for anyone in our school to contribute to and use.  We love throwing scraps into the pile!

With the current rain we look forward to seeing our plants and seedlings a bit larger during our next visit.  And, hopefully, some of our irises will be blooming, too!