The PTA-sponsored Garden of Learning program is a weekly garden lesson for grades 1 through 3. Each week, parent volunteers help students learn many gardening skills as they dig, plant, harvest and compost. The program is also emphasizing the garden-to-table connection.
The Garden of Learning program maintains several gardens on campus: the Edibles Garden, the Children's Garden, the Wildlife Garden and the California Native Garden, in addition to maintaining school planter boxes. Help is also needed with garden maintenance to be done on your own schedule.
This program also reduces teacher-to-student ratio when half the class is taken out to the lesson.
Students and parents also make scarecrows, prepare delicious food, and create crafts. Nutrition, biology and math skills are emphasized in various lessons. We have also developed our own unique gardening lessons at Willett, including units on wildlife-friendly gardens for butterflies, beneficial insects and birds. Click here to see the winter schedule of gardening events.
http://www2.dcn.org/orgs/willettgarden
Contact Garden Coordinator Cyndi Hughes (
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) if you can help.
