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gardening for/with kids, better than video games??'
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Posted by careytearose z9 NoCal (My Page) on Sun, May 6, 07 at 20:00
| In the fall I approached my seventh grade dd's guidance class teacher about seeing if the students would be interested in doing some service project hours in our garden. AS we live across the street from the school, this made the idea very convenient. I came one day to the guidance classes all day, giving a 5 minute pitch about it. I wore my typical "garden garb"; my big green straw garden hat, leather rose gloves and my garden jacket, and brought a trundle basket with some fresh cut roses. I told the students about what we were going to be doing , let them smell all the roses that I passed around, and they asked lots of good questions!
We had 9 jr. highers come on two different Saturdays from 9-12noon, a month apart. They did cleanup, planted roses, dug in daffodil bulb, planted seeds.
One of the 7th grade boys commented that doing this gardening "was better than playing video games". When I told him mother this when she came to pick him up, she was very surprised to hear that her son had actually said this!
careytearose
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| Sounds like your next project ought to include a session or two with the parents. Congratulations on planting the seeds that will grow more than a garden! Jan |
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| Yes, I fully agree with Jan. You have done a very good job, gourd_friends, by creating not only an awareness of the nature but also have taught them that there is more to enjoyment than just video games. Three cheers!! |
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| That is so cool, I'm glad that you did that and that it was such a success. |
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| Is there any way that you could work your gardening into doing some gardening on school grounds. I know from experience at our school that the cleaner and nicer the school is the less trash and vandelism. I would look into maybe doing either container gardening or finding an area to spruce up. I am hoping to do more of this this summer at our school. Stacie |
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