Ganon Classes Work in the ECD Garden

Now that it finally feels like Spring, it's a perfect time for working in the ECD garden.  Each class has a plot of land for planting flowers or vegetables.  This week the children and morot from Ganon Aleph and Ganon Bet were busy weeding and preparing the soil, after which we planted some radish seeds.  We also have some bulbs which should be growing into beautiful flowers very soon.  Come by in a few weeks to take a look!

ONE POTATO, TWO POTATOES

While preparing our section of the Early Childhood Garden for the coming winter, the children unearthed a small treasure: several tiny sweet potatoes. These little potatoes are off shoots of a large sweet potato that was planted last winter.

The original sweet potato was placed in a container of water in the classroom to grow its roots. The potato and its roots were planted last spring and yielded the little sweet potatoes we found. We baked them and they were sweet and delicious!. Gan Daled also planted tulip bulbs and can't wait to see the beautiful colors in the spring.

Ganon Aleph Gardeners

The children in Ganon Aleph were so busy in the ECD garden one beautiful, sunny day this week.  They pulled the weeds and tidied up our plot of land, and then picked some of the vegetables that grew over the summer, including this enormous pumpkin!

Ganon Aleph Celebrates Earth Day

In honor of Earth Day we talked about ways we can help to protect the Earth.  The children came up with the following:  throwing trash into the garbage, recycling, not wasting water, carpooling so there will be less pollution in the air, and keeping the lakes and oceans clean so the fish won't die.  We worked in our ECD garden pulling out weeds in preparation for future planting.

While we were outside the children looked for litter on the ground to throw in the garbage cans, and they even hugged some trees!

 
 They decorated "litter bags" to hang in their cars, as well as water bottles to use and reuse in school on hot days.

Hopefully, all of their efforts to protect our environment will pay off!!