Eggs, Corn, and Beets

This week in the garden we could feel spring in the air!
We kicked-off garden club with an egg hunt.

In the Garden: The students planted corn, freckled lettuce, and more flowers.

Activity: The kids had the chance to learn and eat the parts of a plant.

• Roots: Carrots, beets
• Shoots: Celery
• Leaves: Lettuce
• Seeds: Sunflower seeds
• Flowers: Talked about edible flowers
• Fruit: Grapple (looks like an apple, tastes like a grape)

New Addition: The boys in particular LOVED our new garden addition...the "Excavation Site" where they can dig holes!

Have a Happy Spring Break!

The Garden Gals

Planting a Sensory Garden

This week in the El Morro school garden, the students finished painting their bird houses. We filled them with birdseed and the kids got to take them home to welcome birds to their own yard. We also kept a couple to decorate our garden.

The students also planted a "sensory garden" in one of the beds. This is to encourage them to use all of their senses while exploring the garden. The sensory garden includes:

• Sight: Bird house, pinwheel, decorative butterfly
• Smell/Taste: Plenty of aromatic edible herbs -- rosemary, thyme, mint, oregano, cilantro, lemon balm, basil, and tarragon.
• Touch: Lamb's ear
• Sound: Windchimes (coming soon)

We also attached garden tiles, that were painted during Funday Monday, to the boxes. And we left time to just have fun blowing bubbles in the garden!