Thursday, February 22, 2018

Our Kitchen Garden

The Kitchen Garden is a very important place of learning at Hamilton East School.  Here we get to see how we grow plants and care for them so we can harvest them for food.  The focus is on fresh and healthy veggies and fruit.  We also use the garden to investigate concepts such as composting and to explore insect and bug life in a garden.  The garden quickly becomes a favourite place for children at school.
What can we see in the garden?

Looking closely...


What did we see? 

Walking through the garden...

A sunflower forest!

Yummy tomatoes!

We found a monarch egg on a swan plant

We also found strawberries

Yum!

Looking for ripe strawberries to eat

I found one!

Who is that peeking through the sunflowers?

A giant sunflower

A gourd - what can we do with these?

We found a baby caterpillar

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