EJ Garden

Spring has sprung and students at EJ are busy planting the garden with cool weather plants.  Our fence was repaired this week by Mr. Einselen and we are ready to get dirty and start planting! Grade 2 has planted 2 varieties of snap peas to compare and contrast using both meter and yard sticks for a hands-on math lessons. Grade 1 will be installing hoop houses for carrots, basil and mesclun greens.  These varieties are incorporated into a science strand linked to roots.  The items were donated from Donors Choose. Our  Kindergarten is rolling out "Farming Fridays," which incorporates a gardening journal. Weathering a windy Friday, students planted strawberries, spinach and radishes.  The plants and seeds were donated by our Board of Education and Stockton College.  The littlest hands in the garden, Pre-K 3 and 4, have created two perennial beds of asparagus and beautified the planting boxes with brilliant pansies.

Thanks again to our Board of Education for the asparagus crowns and to the Student Health Office for the pansies. 

Dependent on our gardens ability to produce, the upper grades will be participating in data collection and analysis through the Information Technology and Science curriculum strands.  We hope to have a taste test in late spring before the summer ethnic gardens go in. Happy Spring!