PRESCHOOL GARDEN

In the garden our preschool students learn exploration, collaboration, agency, observation, reflection and research, empathy and kindness with living things, care for plants and our environment, and creativity in and with nature.

They hold bugs, water plants, taste food, and create projects such as “leaf man” and seed balls. They learn empathy and kindness to small creatures. By watering plants, they learn to care for plants and our environment. They taste the food that grows out of the garden, which teaches them to be risk-takers to try new things.

Learning outcomes in the garden include: critical thinking, multi-sensory exploration, and seeing the garden as a place of scientific research and higher learning — returning to the same inquiries over time to see growth gives the opportunity to compare.