Roots and Wings

 

This year we have been watering and growing our Jasmine vines over our book area to create a peaceful and quiet book area. As an extension of gardening this year we took a trip to our local farm for the pumpkin patch. We were given some class pumpkins that we were able to explore. after a month of exploration our pumpkins began the process of decomposing, we put them into our garden. we cared for our pumpkins by watering and making sure they had plenty of sunlight and love. There were investigations happening as we witnessed the life cycle of the pumpkin plant. it made a very green garden bed and looked and smelled beautiful as we walk in and out of our Classroom. 

Another way we kept up our outdoor environment was with special art projects to hand around our outdoor classroom. We created suncatchers with glue and glass rocks. we also did some beading with beads and dehydrated pomelos and hung them from our beautiful oak tree. The pomelos came from one of our families backyard. Drawing on tree cookies was another fun nature activity we did and hung them around our outdoor environment. Another area of our outdoor classroom that requires watering is our butterfly garden that sits above the block area. We have monarch butterflies that we help to care for by watering the milkweed for them to lay their eggs. The children enjoy observing them as the eggs hatch and they watch the caterpillars grow. 

We will continue to add to our garden and create nature experiences for our outdoor classroom. we cant wait to see what interest spark this year for our outdoor classroom.