Wednesday 1 April 2015

2015!

We are looking forward to starting our well-being inquiry in Term 2 with a focus on healthy eating. We can't wait to start preparing our gardens, planting, caring for, harvesting, sharing and eating our produce.  Our orchard is also producing fruit - our first feijoas are being enjoyed!


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Wednesday 10 December 2014

Wonderful Vegetables

It was so amazing to see how much the children's knowledge of vegetable had grown when we completed the "What I know about vegetables" benchmark data. 

It's just awesome to experience such enthusiasm about vegetables and see children so keen to eat green. 

Alex said, "I liked having the potatoes because I really like boiled potatoes. I tried kale for the first time and it was really nice with the salt, I was proud that I tried something even though I didn’t know what it tasted like. I am going to always try vegetables now."

It was fantastic to be able to link our inquiry to other curriculum areas and the cooking provided authentic experiences for writing recipes. 

Room 27 love kale. We cooked some kale chips to share with Room 2 as part of our handover to the Year 1s. The children were so proud to show the Year 1s their garden. They will always remember planting, nurturing, harvesting and enjoying their vegetables.

Sunday 7 December 2014

What a journey!

This year has been amazing! I - alongside with my children - have learnt so much about gardening and thoroughly enjoyed the organic, dynamic process in which learning about the garden happened. It was great to address issues as we went and the children have remembered all the things we did to help the garden!

We used our knowledge to produce a pamphlet to take home and share with our parents about how to care for a garden, and especially our kale. The kids were so keen to take their knowledge home.

One negative would have been the time constraints. It was hard to get a handle on cooking with so much else in the last term therefore did not do as much as I would have liked to. But other than that - Nothing!

Lots of positives on the other hand. The kids showed so much enthusiasm and care for the garden. I loved seeing the ones who previously were known as 'picky' eaters, or those who did not like veges at home transform into vege lovers! They were all extremely sad to hand over to year ones but said that they would like to see what happens with the gardens next and one of the great things were that they wanted to continue their learning and maybe find a way to share the veges from our garden with the whole school!

All the best to you next year - team! I look forward to keeping an eye on the blog and seeing what you are up to! My new class also has a vege garden! So watch out for international skype sessions etc! Thank goodness we have been on this journey this year! It'll sure help!

Our Gardening journey! on PhotoPeach

Wednesday 3 December 2014

Enviro handovers

Well, the enviro handovers seem to be going smoothly. It was great to see this year's lot of children speaking about their learning and having so much pride in what they have achieved this year. We cleared out one of the garden beds today and I can see that we are going to have some very interested learners next year.

Tuesday 2 December 2014

Handing over the gardens to Year 1 for 2015

Yesterday we invited Room 4 to come to Room 9 so we could talk to them about all the things we have been doing this year in our gardens and what we have learnt.  Then we all went out to the garden and helped pull out the old vegetables to make way for new planting next year.  The Year 1's are very excited about gardening!

Thursday 27 November 2014

We're famous!


The Eastern Courier visited and took photos and published an article about our hard work and the celebration lunch! Click here for the link

LUNCH TIME FOR ALL!


Our shared lunch was an amazing success!  The whole team pitched in - harvesting, washing, preparing, cooking and eating - healthy vege stirfry for 100 children! The children loved it and many ate different kinds of veges for the first time.  We had broad beans, kale, capsicum, spinach, broccoli,  cabbage and peas - it was great to use all the veges we have been raising this year.