Kingsley Charter School Garden Club
Help Needed this Saturday!!!
*** Campus Cleanup Day Saturday, 4/20, 9-1 ***
Please join us on a beautiful spring day for some work at the front entrance and general campus cleanup. In the front we will be weeding, planting, and spreading pine-straw. We will also be doing general cleanup in the Learning Garden and around campus, particularly the east side.
- Materials Needed:
- * pine-straw - please contact us if you can help get 35 bales delivered to school by Sat.
- * hand pruners - we've got lots of ivy to clip from trees on east side
- * wheel barrows - we've had one donated but can always use more!
- * circular saw (to drill 2" hole in picnic table for installation of our first umbrella!)
- * pressure washing of picnic tables in Learning Garden (outside media center)
Contact amandahensley01@gmail.com if you can help plan or lead any of our projects (details will be posted here when available).
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Garden Club Meeting Dates 2nd Semester (reminder emails will be sent each week to registered GC parents) Grades K-2 - 1/10, 2/14, 3/14, 4/18, 5/9 Grades 3-5 - 1/17, 2/21, 3/21, 4/25, 5/16 Garden Club for K-2 is full but we have started a wait list. Contact us if interested. Volunteer Signup - Please signup online to help with our grades K-2 and grades 3-5 meetings. General Info: The Garden Club meets Thursday afternoons, 2:45-4:00. Grades K-2 meet the 2nd Thu, grades 3-5 meet the 3rd Thursday. Cost is free but parent help is needed during meetings, parties, special projects, work days, for summer watering duties, and/or donating treats/supplies on occasion. We communicate to parents via email. If interested, please complete the registration form and return to the front office. Contact us at kcsgardenclub@yahoo.com with questions. |
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How It All Began - Learning Garden established Fall 2009How Gardening Benefits Our Children's DevelopmentImagine cultivating a flower or vegetable garden. A healthy garden requires planning,
maintenance and nurturing. The soil and plants involve physical contact with nature, reveal biological processes and provide concrete examples of theoretical principles. While he is grubbing in the earth, stirring the soil to let in the moisture and air, he is learning about nature's secrets. By engaging students in such ways, gardens help students see directly that their interactions with the garden can either help or hinder the growth of other living things. They see that their energies and contributions to the garden will produce vegetables to eat and flowers to smell. Furthermore, they will gain a greater sense of appreciation and value for that which grows out of the garden because they understand that they play a crucial role in its production, they were part of it's cycle and growth. Through gardening, students deal directly with the abstract science, math and problem-solving issues that are taught in the classroom. They also utilize various forms of writing, such as descriptive, persuasive and analytical styles. Students are able to see, touch and analyze the process that created and support the theories read about in text books or learned in the classroom. The subject matter is brought closer to the students as they keep working with and learning from it. Gardens draw together skills from many different disciplines!! ....math, science, English, social studies, art blend into one another, which is, after all, the way the world really works! The garden can serve as a source of artistic inspiration and as a means of creative expression. It can be a quiet space to relax, to read, to paint, to write, to listen to the music the birds serenade. Can you see your Kingsley gardener grow? Superintendent's ProclamationDr. Crawford Lewis', Former Superintendent Dekalb County School System
Whereas, An outdoor Educational Project serves as a living laboratory that students can use for hands-on activities and experiments involving the world around them; and Whereas, The Dekalb County School System has adopted a fresh approach to eco-conservation and being smart stewards of the county's natural resources with the intent to become a more environmentally conscious school distract; and Whereas, Schools with Outdoor Education Projects used as teaching tools significantly contribute to increased performance on standardized math science, reading, writing and social studies tests; and Whereas, Loss of habitat is a primary cause of species extinction and Outdoor Educational Projects help students restore habitat for wildlife; and Whereas, Children who play in natural areas have more positive social relationships and more creative play; and Whereas, Studies have shown that humans have an innate need for an intimate association with nature; and Whereas, Many children never interact with the natural world in their urban environment, therefore Outdoor Educational Projects help fulfill these needs in a safe, supervised way; and Whereas, Outdoor Educational Projects help build strong community ties and support; and Therefore, By this action, let it be known that the Board of Education of the Dekalb County School System does hereby proclaim support of the School Master Gardener Program in all of the public schools of Dekalb County and calls upon school administrators, teachers, students and citizens of Dekalb County to recognize and support this action and to participate in the School Master Gardener Program. |
Kingsley School Master Gardener Team 2009 -
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