This past week the children focused
on using their senses in the garden;
exploring different textures, smells,
colors, and so much more!

We have gained some new residence
in the garden; four groundhogs and
some bunnies. We are trying to co-exist
as well as possible, but it can get a little
frustrating at times. Hopefully they won't
eat all of our veggies!

The earth loom is scheduled to be finished
tomorrow so the rising kindergarten class
can being weaving items from the garden
into it.

The garden also had two volunteer work days
this week and a lot of progress has been made,
especially with keeping the weeds at bay.

The summer camp for rising 

kindergarteners started this 

week and they had lots of fun 

using materials from the garden 

as paint brushes to make a class 

banner and their own personal 

paintings. They used different

kinds of grasses, sticks, leaves, 

rocks, and so much more. It was 

great to see their creative minds 

at work, finding items that I 

wouldn’t even think of to use as 

a paintbrush.

Progress has been made on the 

earth loom, thanks to a volunteer, 
Audra Holden who has helped out 
with other local school earth looms. 
Hopefully by the end of next week it 
will be ready for the children to weave 
materials from the garden into! I am 
excited for all of the projects that we 

have planned for the garden this 

summer and I am happy that one 

is near completion!

Our next project will most likely be 

a shade structure to provide a safe 

space for the babies and a space for 

the older children to cool off and 

escape from the hot summer sun. 

I am also trying to build an outdoor 

learning space with picnic tables, 

chalk boards, and books related to 

the garden.

 

Week Two

I have been writing lots of lesson plans this week for Verner and their summer camp that is starting this Monday! The month of June has a theme around art so there will be lots of art crafts going on in the garden, including painting with plants, making plant crowns, and finishing the earth loom!

In the garden the mint patch is turning into a jungle so we decided to pick some to dry in the garden shed. Soon the children will take it up to their classrooms to make some delicious mint tea to go along with their lunch.

The rain has taken its toll on the garden these past few weeks and everything is growing like crazy! There are two chive plants exploding with beautiful purple flowers, the lambs ear is 1.5 feet tall and the tomatoes need staking!

The herb spiral that you can see in the picture to the right is on its way to completion, all we have to do now is move the herbs.

I spent this Friday, June 1, weeding out the horse nettle that is creeping its way into the garden, digging up a  cover crop to make room for more plants, picking strawberries with classroom 2, and staking the tomatoes. I have spent this week writing a few lesson plans for the garden that will
hopefully pan out soon!