Working Together

Teacher Can and I have been observing some wonderful things in our little Escuelita community. Acts of kindness, friendship, service, and leadership are portrayed by in big and little ways by our students. We see simple gestures of kindness such as offering a hug to a another student who is crying, or a tissue to a friend with a runny nose. We see students working together to solve problems by taking turns and offering suggestions, and working side by side to create art or a garden project-all the while sharing materials and space. Students offer help when it's time to clean up and pick up toys, wash tables and materials. We see students welcome new friends to the classroom and invite them to play.  It's truly a joy to watch the children not only demonstrate our community values, but build the community themselves! 

Thank you to the entire community for contributing to our Vertical Recycle Garden. The garden is beautiful and full of life. We received so many items for the garden from friends and families.

Our Escuelita class is continuing to dig & plant. The garden will be an on going project throughout the year.

  

This week we also started our class seed bank. We took out many seeds from a pumpkin. Next we cleaned the seeds. Lastly we dried the seeds in the sun. 

 

The Glory of Gardening

Hands in the dirt, 

head in the sun,

heart with nature.

To nature a garden is to feed

not just the body, but the soul.

-A. Austin