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The young gardeners learned about random recipes. Meaning foods that you wouldn’t typically mix together. Before recipe books 📚 people used to just mix together whatever they could harvest or buy for cooking 🍳 meals.

After learning about different foods that were mixed together to make a 🍽️ meals. The young gardeners played a game of “would you eat this?” It was very interesting 🤔 to see the different types of food that aren’t normally mixed together but the gardeners would give it a try.

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Happy Ground Hog Day! 🐻

On this prose day gardeners explored how food is medicine 🥘

Its been very cold so we spent the day making warm chicken noodle soup to warm up, eat healthy and feel strong!

Everyone worked as a team to cut up celery, carrots, potatoes, and garlic. Everything was then cooked up in nutritious veggie broth with fusilli pasta. Students were then given the option to add chicken!

We ended our day with a conversation about food and how were connected to it.

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Today the gardeners continued their food cultural 🌏 experience. The gardeners cut carrots 🥕 🥕and celery into small pieces and place them inside a 🥣 bowl. After they finished their job they began to clean up 🧽 . The cut carrots 🥕 🥕 and celery was given to one of the educators to finish. The educator cooked the celery and carrots 🥕 🥕 until tender then places some noodles 🍜and spices 🧂 🌿 There was some already cooked shredded chicken 🐓 added but only for the gardeners who wanted it. 🥘 bon a petit 🥘 🍴

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Today the young gardeners discussed different foods 🍱 and their origins 🌍 . They talked bout the different foods they like and where they originated from. They also learned of foods their fellow gardeners 👦👧 like and the origins of the food.

They talked about different traditions that eat different foods 🥘 during holidays or special occasions.

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Today the gardeners learned about snow flakes and how it is formed. We experienced a snow storm Sunday evening that affected all New Yorkers, old and young. So why not learned about how snow is formed and what cloud produces it.

Snow is formed when the temperature is below 32 degrees in high clouds ☁️. Water vapor 💦 turns into ice 🧊 crystals that are formed around tiny dust particles in the air. These crystals then freezes together making a six sided crystal that falls when it becomes heavy.

Today activity is making snow flakes out of paper. All you need is paper and scissors. The gardeners fold and cut the paper into tiny shapes to create a unique shape that is similar to a snow ❄️ flake.

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Types of clouds cont.

Today we talked about Stratus clouds. Stratus clouds are low altitude, horizontal sheet like clouds. It’s a dull grey color that resemble fog but higher up. Stratus clouds makes the day sometime look gloomy that can produce a light mist, drizzle or snow.

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Types of Clouds

Today the gardeners will learn about different types of clouds and how they can help farmers and gardeners with their growing needs. Today we talked about cirrus clouds.

Cirrus clouds- high altitude, wispy, white clouds composed entirely of ice crystals that form delicate, feathery or hair like strands.

What does cirrus clouds look like? They look like air moving around, someone loosing their hair, broken crystals, bird with feathers.

What happened this Sunday? As the day started on Sunday it wasn’t snowing in the morning and later that day the chance of snow increased. Then later on Sunday it began to snow.

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This Friday we got to discuss our favorite stories and brainstormed what every story should have 🧚📖⚔️

The gardeners impressed with their knowledge of story elements and then got to sew their own story characters, telling of their adventures as their characters began to form

We also had gardeners create pop up books inspired by the fables we heard today and throughout the week, rounding off a beautiful and creative week filled with connection ❤️🖇️👀

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Today’s topic: Can Poems Protect Nature?

The gardeners started off the afternoon by talking about rhyming words. We wrote rhyming word pairs and made our own rhyming sentences and stories with them. This was fun 😁

The gardeners learned about Henry Thoreau, an American essayist, poet, philosopher, naturalist and social reformer. They also engaged with the words of Malala Yousafzai and Matsuo Bashō, writers who grappled with the topics of social reform and nature's beauty ˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧🩷˚.

After an introduction to Henry Thoreau and other writers who have changed how we see our world, our young gardeners got to write haikus, short stories, and rhyming sentences 😊

The gardeners began to put their poetic skills to work and wrote truly great poems 📜🪶

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Today's group of gardeners talked about fables.

The gardeners got the chance to hear two new stories that were passed down from generation to generation. Now they can pass on the stories they’ve heard today to their families. The stories that were read today, “The Man and The Lion" 👨🦁 and “Two Crabs" 🦀 🦀 both had practical lessons about life.

With so many stories to tell, why not just write one ourselves?

The gardeners were asked to come up with their own fable or short story, no more than five sentences. The stories that were written were beautiful, heartfelt, and imaginative. Some are captured here in this post 👀🤎

Give a like 👍🏽 for the hard work the young gardeners put into creating these wonderful short stories

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Today we reviewed our "Garden Goals" lesson, with returning gardeners able to help explain the concepts of our goal projects to our Friday gardeners 👩‍🏫📓✍🏻

As our fresh gardeners worked on their goals, returning students had the chance to customize their own pocket holders for their goal "punch cards" in their notebooks

📝📓

We also had the chance to plant some of the seeds that we made goals to plant this week, and are actively working on bettering our gardening skills together

🌱✨🪴

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Today we welcomed our Thursday group of gardeners to think on what skills or goals they wanted to work towards this year with us in the garden ᯓ★ 🙌🏻

From sharing our own garden related goals to hearing about all the different things our gardeners wanted to accomplish, we all gained insight into who we are and how we relate to those around us *⭒𖠋𖠋𖠋⭒*

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Gardeners welcomed the day with bright ideas about their own goals for the garden, thinking about tasks that would bring them value through action and education 📚🍀💡

We've also been motivating gardeners to come up with related rewards to their garden goals, such as if a gardener watered his plants in the morning all week, he could sleep in on Sunday! 📊💭📈

We even got to take a trip into the Winter garden as the sun set, enjoying seeing how our garden has changed since the beginning of the year ˚✿°🔄༄.°

Gardeners and educators alike have been learning valuable lessons on the nature of creating goals with built-in rewards

✨💡🌟

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Starting this week's lesson, we began by talking about "Garden Goals", a project focusing on our gardener's aspirations and desires for this year in the garden 💯🌱🎯

From growing specific plants, eating various vegetables and fruits, to personal and inspiring goals, gardeners made "punch cards" to remember and work towards these goals over the next few weeks 🥬. ݁₊🌻⊹🌷. ݁˖🍅

We will continue to revisit and help gardeners accomplish their worthy gardener goals ♡´･ᴗ･`♡

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On this wonderful prose day, gardeners learned about the origins and practices of growing rice and we also had discussions about New Years traditions in our families and around the world 🎇2026🎆

As part of our rice lesson, we engaged students with cooking and forming rice krispie treats together, focusing on the process of the rice forming with the marshmallows to create the snack

🍚˚ ࿔*:🌾

As part of our New Years traditions lesson, students had the opportunity to make their own festive paper lanterns, diligently piecing together a globe of tissue paper and getting to form them into a colorful keepsake to always remember this meaningful prose day ✨🕯️🏮🕯️✨

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Today the gardeners learned about different types of stories. The gardeners discussed the types of stories they know 🧠💭

Then the gardeners listen to two different stories read by the teacher, 📖 “Two Frogs” and “The Peacock’s Complaint” 📖 while another group listened to "The Giving Tree"

Finally they were asked to make their own story 📝

The gardeners enjoyed making their own story. 📒

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Our Friday gardeners tackled a day of learning about our solstices, how the changing seasons affects us, and even connecting the time of year with how much sunlight we receive ₊˚ʚ 🔆🌎 ˚✧ ﾟ.

After our solstice lesson, we got hands-on with a lesson on the cucumbers that have been growing under grow lights in our classroom 💡🥒✨

Gardeners repotted some of our growing sprouts and explored what these cucumber plants will need when Spring comes ⏳.𖥔 ݁🌷

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Gardeners enjoyed learning about the solstices during the first Thursday back

˚🍃✧.💚˚

We opened discussions about the Winter and Summer solstices, talking about the passage of time and how this plays a part in planting times and what vegetables are available to us 🕓🥕🍓🥬🍎🕗

We also had the opportunity to review what is in the garden at this time and even had observations of our cucumber plants that we are nursing in the classroom over the Winter ε(´｡•᎑•`)っ🥒☃️

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We continued the first week of our New Year by exploring our solstice lesson and sharing our hopes, plans, and goals for this year 🗓‪‪❤︎‬👀

Gardeners took diligent notes and offered inquisitive questions about the solstices and how time passes in different ways

🌸☀️🍂❄️

We also made star, sun, and moon mobiles in which we wrote our hopes, plans, and goals we shared with each other 𐦂✎ᝰ.📓

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Our group of gardeners embraced learning about the solstices and how time passes in different ways. From days, to months and then years, we talked about what happens in these times and what we enjoy during these changes ⏳.𖥔 ݁ ˚❆

Our bright and creative gardeners also had the chance to share what they know they're doing this year, what they want to do this year, and what they would want to continue from last year 🗓.ೃ࿔ ✈︎ *👀

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We welcomed our wonderful gardeners back and celebrated the New Year together with a lesson on the solstice

🌙✨☀️

Gardeners discussed ways to mark time and New Years in different cultures, also recognizing how our yearly calendar can mark the seasons and how this can help with planting and gardening plans

⋆₊🌱⋆ ☾👥𖤓 ⋆⁺₊🌱⋆

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Today we had conversations about the different ways that living things can communicate. Building on the idea that mushrooms are able to communicate through their mycelium network, we saw how there are many unique ways that other living things can talk, even without words! 🦎🗣️🌱🐝

We then played a great activity where gardeners had to pass a ball of yarn in an unknown order, directed by their classmates without using words! We saw how we could communicate as a community, just like in nature

𓍯𓂃🧶

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Today gardeners engaged in lessons on fungi and the mycelium network! We learned how mushrooms can use their networks of roots to communicate and share nutrients 🍄₊🤝₊🍄

We then got to prepare and cook our own mushrooms! The gardeners excelled and practiced diligence when cutting and learning about the science behind mushrooms as we cooked 🔪🍄‍🟫🧬🧪

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Gardeners did their part inside and outside the classroom gathering pots to transplant seedlings we planted two weeks ago! We've been observing how they've slowly sprouted from the ground and are forming essential structures for growth 🌿👀📊

We ended the week with another group mushroom meal and reflected on our accomplishments in the garden classroom

❤️👩🏻‍🏫❤️

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The young gardeners started the afternoon with a review of what they've learned and what they know about mushrooms 📓✍🏻💡

They learned about different types of mushrooms and their origins as well as the different parts and functions of the fungi body. Fun fact: There are over 14000 species of mushrooms, some speculating it’s in the millions 🍄♾️🍄‍🟫

Today our gardeners got the chance to taste three different types of mushrooms! Shiitake, Oysters mushrooms and white mushrooms. They cut the mushrooms into small pieces and Ms Emma cooked it with just a little salt and olive oil. Delicious!!

😋ᵞᵁᴹᴹᵞ😋

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Today the young gardeners explored the world of “Fungi” (mushrooms). The gardeners talked about different mushrooms they know of and also learned about some they haven’t heard of before 🍄𓋼𓍊🍄‍🟫𓍊𓋼🍄𓋼𓍊🍄‍🟫𓍊𓋼🍄

A mushroom is a bearing fruiting body of fungus that’s typically produced above ground on soil

🌲⁺˚°🍄⋆₊｡🌲

Fun fact: Mushrooms are fascinating fungi, more closely related to animals than plants, that act as nature's recyclers, can glow in the dark, and even form the world's largest living organism in Oregon 🍄‍🟫🖇️🐖

To be continued on more of the young gardeners growth ✨

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On this beautiful prose day, we invited our wonderful routine gardeners and familiar friends in an embrace of community, education, and hands-on learning 👉🌱👐

From completing observational drawings of plants, animals, and insects to pancake making, community building games, and securing plants for the Winter (pictured above with a wonderful group of helpful gardeners) we all had special experiences that we'll hold onto well past this prose day

❤️𐦂🧡𖨆💛𐀪💚𖠋💙𐦂💜

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We ended our week with discussions on our favorite comfort foods and made sketches of where our favorite foods could have come from 🤔💭💡

Whether from farm, garden, supermarket, restaurant, or other destination, gardeners shared in dialogues the foods that bring them joy before being supervised in pancake creation to end a sweet week right

( ˊᵕˋ )♡🥞♡( ˊᵕˋ )

By the end of the day we even got to transplant some of the cucumber sprouts we planted during our planting calendar lesson last week!

Here's to kindly nurturing plants and each other during the times we need it the most 💚

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Margaret is a school social worker originally from Atlanta and has been living in New York for the past eight years. She got her BFA from Pratt and then transitioned to graduate school at Fordham GSS, fueling her passion for school-based social work.

She believes that art and psychology are deeply intertwined. Her work is also rooted in a belief in the connection between nature, mental health, and collective wellbeing. She is passionate about how time with the land can support emotional regulation, self-reflection, and a sense of belonging, especially for young people.

Margaret seeds and starts plants in Brooklyn, where she maintains a large garden growing peas, tomatoes, gourds, peppers, herbs, and cut flowers, and even raises chickens in Bed-Stuy! She saves seeds from each season and plants them upstate on her neighbor's farm.

In her work with students, Margaret loves integrating art-making and social-emotional learning into gardening programs, creating hands-on spaces where creativity, care, and connection can take root.

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We welcomed the end of this week by reviewing and introducing ways that we can extend and change the norms of planting calendars

📄✍️🤔

We organized our classroom into an educational theatre, watching a video on ancient gardening techniques that has helped people through history extend planting seasons 🌱💧☀️🪴

We took notes and drew our favorite techniques from the first educational theatre 🧠🎥❤️

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Another day of gardeners embraced learning about planting calendars and how greenhouses, cold frames, and other indoor tools can help us nurture our plants during the cold months 🏡📚🍃

We took to the garden to harvest mammoth sunflower seeds before coming inside to seed a whole tray with those seeds and others to sustain and inspire us 🌟🌱💡

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This Wednesday the gardeners continued discussions around greenhouses. Our gardeners drew and designed their own greenhouses in their journals in explorative and creative ways 🌟🧠💭

We also had the opportunity to plant seeds for cucumbers and other flowering plants that we hope to continue growing within our classroom for the Winter season 🌱🙏🥒

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Continuing lessons on planting calendars and tools to help extend plant growing seasons, gardeners went on tours of our two vestibule greenhouses 🌱🏡🌱

We had opportunities to talk about what we saw in our greenhouses, from plants growing and being maintained during the Winter to harvested seeds drying for future planting! 🌾🪏🌾🪏🌾

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Gardeners were inspired to think about how we can keep growing plants as temperatures continue to drop around us in the Wintertime ꙳*̩̩͙🌨️•❅*̩̩͙❆˚🌨️*̩̩͙₊

Whether it be using outside tools like greenhouses and cold frames or indoor options like grow lights, seed tray heating pads, or even hydroponics, gardeners learned how to push the boundaries of our accepted planting calendar

❄️🌱☃️🌱❄️

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The students enjoyed a tasty evening treat, pancakes. The students poured, mixed and cooked (with assistance) their pancakes. This was a fun activity that everyone enjoyed

🙌(˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶) 🙌

Gardeners have also been engaging in lessons on the Bialowieza forest, an ancient forest in Poland whose original form and wildlife is being protected to this day 🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲

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We continued our discussions and lesson around the Bialowieza forest and the young gardeners had a great discussing nature

↟🌲˚☀️ᨒ↟🌲

They talked about the different parts of nature and their favorite places they've visited in nature 🏕️🌲

We heard some fascinating stories about the beautiful places the young gardeners visited. They had a lovely time taking turns listening to one another 👀˖⋆🌷͙⋆ ִֶ👀

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Today the students learned the history of pancakes and syrup. ˚₊🥞•₊˚ They talked about their favorite food and how it makes them feel

☺️🧡

The students enjoyed talking with each other about different foods they eat at home and learned about the different places and ways our food can get to us 🚚💨

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Gardeners took to the roof garden to explore this unique time in the season by engaging in hands-on activities like replanting flower bulbs for them to grow in Spring! 𖤣🍁𖥧𖡼𓋼🧄𖤣𖥧

We continued our hand turkey crafts with construction paper environments and our gardeners shared so many heartfelt insights into what they were grateful for in their projects 🙏✨💖✨🙏

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Our gardeners had conversations about gratitude leading up to our Thanksgiving break, sharing the people and aspects of their lives that they're glad they have

✩🧡𓏲⋆.🥧˚

We celebrated the changing of season by creating turkey hand crafts and scarecrow popsicle sticks together 🌬️🍂☃️

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A big thank-you to all our amazing young gardeners! Your hands got messy, your smiles got bright, and your plants grew strong. Every seed you planted helped make our garden a special place. Keep being curious, helpful and kind- just like real gardeners do”

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We continued our hand turkey creations with a new twist: writing the things we are grateful for to add on our creations!

We had conversations about how our identity and the things we do in our day to day can determine what we are grateful for 👪❤️

Gardeners made scarecrows and turkeys today to complete our wonderful Tuesday session before Thanksgiving! 🦃🧡

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Continuing our crafts for the week we saw another round of great fall creature environments!

We then got to be our own Fall creatures and collected dry flower heads from our garden. 🫳💐 🫳💐

"Dead heading" is an important garden challenges that teaches us to prune back our flower plants so that we can have seeds for when planting season is upon us!

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We continued our Fall creature craft today with some extra time used for garden exploration and challenges like the one pictured here! 🫶🫶🫶

A group of diligent Kindergarteners were tasked with watering our greenhouse seedlings and plants. With care and expertise, they filled the trays with water so the plants could drink from their roots at leisure. 🌱💧🚰

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We blasted into this Wednesday with a fun craft to talk about the Fall season upon us, letting gardeners choose different fall creatures with various Fall fruits and items on their heads! 🪾🪾🎃🪾🪾

Gardeners had a great time coloring the creatures, their Fall environments, and even getting to choose a related fact about their creature's hat. 📝📝📝

For example, Fall temperatures cause leaves to lose chlorophyl and change color and also that the energy from 50 leaves goes into creating just one apple! 🍂🍃

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Reviewing some of the facts we learned during our phenology week, we talked about how different animals have different capabilities related to the five senses. 🧠🧠🧠

For example, worms do not have eyes to see, 🪱🪱🪱

but they have light sensitive cells that can detect darkness or light!

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Gardeners made construction paper bouquets today to go along with our phenology lesson, practicing patterns along with conversations about Fall and the things we are reminded of when we think about this wonderful season.

We had plenty of time to engage and discover aspect of our changing garden as well 🍂🥀🍂🥀🍂

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Our Friday gardeners spent their afternoons exploring hibernation. 😴 ❄️

Students created models of bulbs they planted this fall using magazine cutouts. Bulbs are planted in the Fall and are dormant or hibernate during the Winter before blooming in the Spring. 🌷🧄

Afterwards, everyone learned about different mammals that hibernate during the Winter by taking notes and sculpting mammals out of air dry clay. 🐰🐻🦇

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Our Thursday gardeners spent their afternoons exploring hibernation. 😴 ❄️

Students created models of bulbs they planted this fall using magazine cutouts. Bulbs are planted in the Fall and are dormant or hibernate during the Winter before blooming in the Spring. 🌷🧄

Afterwards, everyone learned about different mammals that hibernate during the Winter by taking notes and sculpting mammals out of air dry clay. 🐰🐻🦇

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Our Wednesday gardeners spent their afternoons exploring hibernation. 😴 ❄️

Students created models of bulbs they planted this fall using magazine cutouts. Bulbs are planted in the Fall and are dormant or hibernate during the Winter before blooming in the Spring. 🌷🧄

Afterwards, everyone learned about different mammals that hibernate during the Winter by taking notes and sculpting mammals out of air dry clay. 🐰🐻🦇

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Our Tuesday gardeners spent their afternoons exploring hibernation. 😴 ❄️

Students created models of bulbs they planted this fall using magazine cutouts. Bulbs are planted in the Fall and are dormant or hibernate during the Winter before blooming in the Spring. 🌷🧄

Afterwards, everyone learned about different mammals that hibernate during the Winter by taking notes and sculpting mammals out of air dry clay. 🐰🐻🦇

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Our Monday gardeners spent their afternoons exploring hibernation. 😴 ❄️

Students created models of bulbs they planted this fall using magazine cutouts. Bulbs are planted in the Fall and are dormant or hibernate during the Winter before blooming in the Spring. 🌷🧄

Afterwards, everyone learned about different mammals that hibernate during the Winter by taking notes and sculpting mammals out of air dry clay. 🐰🐻🦇

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Our Friday gardeners spent their afternoon exploring community.

With the guidance of our garden educators students each contributed one leaf to a garland for the classroom. 🍁

Today students had the opportunity to first paint their leaves before adding them to the garland.

This garland represents unity and collective creation.

🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀

Every time students return to the classroom they will see their garland and be reminded that they are a part of a community!

Afterwards, we went outside to collect different seeds from around the garden. And, we played a game that challenged everyones listening skills.

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Our Thursday gardeners spent their afternoon exploring community.

With the guidance of our garden educators students each contributed one leaf to a garland for the classroom. 🍁

This garland represents unity and collective creation.

🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀

Every time students return to the classroom they will see their garland and be reminded that they are a part of a community!

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Our Wednesday gardeners spent their afternoon exploring community.

With the guidance of our garden educators students each contributed one leaf to a garland for the classroom. 🍁

This garland represents unity and collective creation.

🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀

Every time students return to the classroom they will see their garland and be reminded that they are a part of a community!

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Our Monday gardeners spent their afternoon exploring community.

With the guidance of our garden educators students each contributed one leaf to a garland for the classroom. 🍁

This garland represents unity and collective creation.

🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀🍁🍀

Every time students return to the classroom they will see their garland and be reminded that they are a part of a community!

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Our Friday gardeners explored the different uses of plants! 🌿🌱

Teacher Rune prepared pulp from the stocks of sunflowers for everyone to make paper with! 🌻🌻🌻

Afterwards students ground up their own heartwarming tea using pepper corns, cloves, cinnamon, and chamomile with Teacher Dante! 🌼🫖

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Our Wednesday gardeners explored the different uses of plants! 🌿🌱

Teacher Rune prepared pulp from the stocks of sunflowers for everyone to make paper with! 🌻🌻🌻

Afterwards students ground up their own heartwarming tea using pepper corns, cloves, cinnamon, and chamomile with Teacher Dante! 🌼🫖

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Our Monday gardeners explored the different uses of plants! 🌿🌱

Teacher Rune prepared pulp from the stocks of sunflowers for everyone to make paper with! 🌻🌻🌻

Afterwards students ground up their own heartwarming tea using pepper corns, cloves, cinnamon, and chamomile with Teacher Dante! 🌼🫖

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Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🐱

Our Halloween gardeners spent their afternoon exploring Fall Themes! 🍁🍂🍄

Students participated in the Fall tradition of harvesting corn and seeds on our rooftop garden. We harvested strawberry popcorn, nasturtium, calendula, and marigold seeds.

Afterwords we warmed up inside and painted pumpkins! 🎨🎃

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Our Thursday gardeners spent their afternoon exploring food webs and Fall themes!

Students created their own food chains in their journals connecting their favorite animals to their predators and prey! 🐕🐿️🥜

Afterwards, students had the choice between two Fall crafts: weaving a ghost, cat or pumpkin with yarn and a loom, or painting a pumpkin. 🎃👻🐱!

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Our Wednesday gardeners spent their afternoon exploring food webs. 🐿️🍓🌎

Students chose a creature and connected it to its predators and prey creating food webs in their journals.

Afterward, we put our hands to work building connections with yarn and looms!

Everyone got to choose to make a pumpkin ghost or a cat for Halloween! 🎃👻🐱!

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We welcomed Friday together with crafts to represent ourselves, the garden, and how we relate to each other through our different characteristics ✨

It's always nice to embrace wonder together and enjoy the garden space as one 🎨🌱🎨

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A peak at the reward sticker board to give for daily accomplishments gardeners make towards being community members and engaging with gardening opportunities!

🌱👥🌱

We love listening to what stickers gardeners are interested in and tailoring them towards our curriculum! 🧩📈🏆

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Harvests of carrots incoming! Gardeners got their hands into the ground today to yield the carrots that were planted months before! 🧡🪏😮

The wonder and excitement of fulfilling curiosity is something to look forward to as much as the taste of fresh carrots 🥕🥕🥕

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We began this week with garden challenges like watering, weeding, and learning to care for the garden as a gardener community

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We then got to enjoy bond as a community by playing cooperative games like fishing as pictured here, connective building blocks, and garden observations with our journals is always a welcome alternative option 🤝💭🪢

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Leaning into garden discoveries through play, we let gardeners take our creative and educational games out to their favorite areas, creating special moments like a rubber band tulip board laying under the vine covered reading tent 🌷⛺🌷

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We finished off our bug education and exploration week strong by viewing insects in our garden and making creative renditions of them in their habitats 💚🏠🌱

This project even shows how ladybugs help lessen the presence of aphids in our garden 🌱 💪🐞

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Continuing our explorations on the bugs and insects in our garden, we made collages of a bug of our choice and got to write a fact that went along with our own bug creations!

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Finding an informative book to add to our inquisitive gardener's classroom library is always a welcome addition 📚🙌💭

We hope to introduce gardeners to the many healthy and delicious foods and dishes that can be made with ingredients that are as close as their garden at PS84 🍲🫶🍲

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This week we are making considerate and informed interactions with the many bugs and insects present in our garden this September! 🔎👀

Learning and witnessing the ways different animals interact in our garden is such a treat for our gardeners 🍃🐛🤩

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Gardeners continued exploring, observing, and familiarizing themselves with our rooftop garden this week with observational drawings of their favorite areas ❤️🧠🖼️

We all had the opportunity to complete garden bingo sheets featuring fruits, vegetables, and herbs hidden around the garden beds as a fun scavenger hunt activity! 🌟📍🔍

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This Friday our gardeners soared in the garden, exploring our various plants, engaging in education and play as seen here with one of our mammoth sunflowers! 🌻🌻🌻

We found a caterpillar among our nasturtium leaves and observed raindowbows that came in through the garden's windows into the school before dismissal 🌈😄

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Our Tuesday gardeners continued exploring food webs, adding even more animals to build on last week’s lesson 🦋🌻🌎 It was amazing to see how everything in nature connects! 💚

Afterward, we switched gears and got creative with some weaving fun 🧶✨ Using our own DIY looms, we practiced patience and teamwork it was a challenge, but a super fun one! 💪🎨 Inspired by Halloween, we made adorable pumpkins, ghosts, and cats! 🎃👻🐱!

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Our Monday gardeners dove into the world of food webs learning how plants and animals are all connected in the circle of life 🌻🦋🌎

After our discussion, Teacher Dante surprised everyone with a classroom scavenger hunt! 🔍🐞 Students searched for animals we see in our garden and then created their own food webs using what they found 🕷️🍃

It was such a fun, creative way to learn and we even drew our food webs in our garden journals! 🎨📔💚

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This week, our gardeners started learning about phenology the study of how seasonal changes affect plants, animals, and weather! 🌦️🌱

We took turns thinking and sharing what we notice as the weather changes the falling leaves, cooler air, and cozy colors of fall 🍁✨ Together, we discussed why these changes happen and what we can expect during the autumn season. Such thoughtful observations from our young scientists! 🧠🌻💚

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Our Friday gardeners had an amazing day in the garden truly a 10/10! 🌻✨ We rolled up our sleeves for some garden work, harvested fresh goodies to take home 🥕🍃, and even planted beautiful flowers to watch bloom at home 🌷🏡💐

It was the perfect mix of teamwork, growth, and garden joy! 🌱🌞💛

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Our Thursday gardeners switched things up and dove into the world of migrating mammals! 🐬🌎 We learned all about why some mammals travel through the water to new places do you know why? 🤔💭

After our discussion, everyone got creative and made beautiful art inspired by these amazing ocean travelers! 🎨🐋💙

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Our Wednesday gardeners continued learning about seeds and migration 🌱✈️ and then got their hands dirty with creativity! 🎨🖐️

We used a variety of seeds to express ourselves through art, creating beautiful, one-of-a-kind pieces that celebrate how seeds travel, grow, and bring life to new places 🌎🌸✨

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🌱Our Tuesday gardeners continued exploring the topic of migration but this time, we focused on seeds! 🌿💨 We learned how seeds travel to new places and why it’s so important for them to spread and grow in different areas 🌎✨

Students got to observe real seeds up close 🔍 and write down their thoughts and reflections on how movement helps plants (and animals!) thrive 🌸🪴💚

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🌿🍝 Monday Adventures! 🌞💚

Our Monday gardeners had a deliciously fun day in the garden kitchen! 👩🏽‍🍳🌿 Students worked together in teams to harvest fresh ingredients straight from our garden and blend them into some homemade pesto — so yummy! 😋🌱✨

Meanwhile, our other group dove into a migration lesson 🐦🌎, learning all about which animals migrate and why they travel when the seasons change. A great mix of cooking, teamwork, and discovery! 🌻💭

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🐝💚 Friendly in the Garden! 🌿🌞

Our Friday gardeners had a special visitor a carpenter bee! 🐝✨ We think this little friend had a long, busy day and needed some rest, so our gardeners showed lots of care and kindness while helping it recover. We took this sweet moment to observe and draw our cuddly little bee buddy, capturing all its tiny details in our journals 🎨💛 What a beautiful reminder to always treat our garden friends gently! 🌿🌻

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🐝🌿 Thursday in the Garden! 🌞🌻

Our Thursday gardeners spent the day observing buzzing bees all around the garden! 🐝💛 It was so exciting to watch them hard at work, carrying pollen from flower to flower 🌸✨

Some bees even posed for us while we drew them in our journals! 🎨Such a fun way to learn about our amazing pollinator friends and the important work they do every day! 🌼🌿💚

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🌻🎨 Wednesday Creations! 🌿💛

Our Wednesday gardeners took on a special journaling challenge inspired by Teacher Tyler! ✏️ Everyone practiced their observation skills by drawing the basil leaves and the giant sunflower growing in the bed 🌱🌻

The flower was huge and such a fun subject to draw! 💚 Our gardeners did an amazing job capturing the beauty of our garden through art! 🎨✨

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🌿📝 Tuesday Garden Reflections! 🌞🌻

Our Tuesday gardeners spent the day doing some creative journaling together! 🎨💚 Everyone took a peaceful walk around the garden, observing, reflecting, and sketching their favorite spots 🌸👀

We drew what we saw and wrote about why those spaces are special to us a beautiful way to connect with our garden and all it gives us 🌱💭💐

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🌿🤝 Teamwork Thursday! 🌞🌻

Our Thursday gardeners practiced team bonding with a fun Human Chain Challenge! 🔗💪 Everyone held hands across the circle and worked together to untangle themselves back into shape, it wasn’t easy, but it was full of laughter and teamwork! 😄🪴💚

We learned that just like in the garden, communication and cooperation help everything grow stronger! 🌱✨

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🌿Wednesday in the Garden! 🌞💚

Our Wednesday gardeners explored some of our fun garden books, taking turns reading and discovering new garden stories! Everyone also got to harvest fresh beans and basil 🌱✨ to take home and enjoy with their families 🍽️💚

We wrapped up the day with our garden scavenger hunt, spotting all the exciting new changes growing around us! 👀🌿

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🌿🐞 Tuesday Garden Discoveries! 🌞🌻

Our Tuesday gardeners met some of our tiny garden friends the roly-polies! 🐛💚 Everyone had a blast searching for them, gently holding them, and learning how these little helpers are great gardeners too! 🌱✨

During our Garden Agreements, we talked about how to treat our garden friends and each other with kindness and care 🤝🌼

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🌱✨ Monday Garden Explorers! 🌞🌻

Our Monday group continued building their Garden Agreements 💬🌿 and went on an exciting scavenger hunt to discover what’s growing in our garden! 🔍🍅🌸

We also got creative decorating our garden aprons and journals. 🎨✏️where we’ll record our notes, reflections, and lessons all season long!

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🌿🎨 Friday Garden Fun! 🌞💚

Our Friday gardeners continued building our Garden Agreements 🌻 and got creative decorating their garden aprons which will be perfect for our messy garden moments! 👩🏽‍🌾🖌️👕

We also took time to observe all the new changes

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🌿WELCOME BACK, GARDENERS! 🌿

We kicked off our new garden season with a fresh start! 🌸 Our gardeners began by creating Garden Agreements talking about how we want to feel in the garden 💚, how we want to treat each other 🌻, and what we can do to make it a happy, caring space 🌞

Then we took a garden walk to explore all the new changes since our last visit, so many exciting things growing and blooming! 🌱💐