First day of school

Today is the first day of the new school year. Not sure who is more excited, the children or me!

From today we will be meeting every Friday afternoon from 1 until 3.15pm
The aim being that we shall be growing food but using the class room skills (english, math, reading, writing, science) to put these into practice.


With the younger ones we started off with

Writing our name label
Introducing ourselves,
Sorting items in the shed.

Plant pots, tools, and equipment
Naming the tools: hand fork, trowel, spade, fork, rake
Counting and recording our inventory of tools

Finishing off with writing the diary sheet.

With the 8 year olds:

Writing our name label
Introducing ourselves
Sorting out the compost heap
Recording what creatures we find
Finishing off with writing the diary sheet.

With the 10 year olds:
Writing our name label
Introducing ourselves
Sorting out Bed 1.
- measure 1 ft and hammer in staples
- feed through string, working as a team
- tying knots
- identifying rows and columns
Finishing off with writing the diary sheet.

We had a great day