Description

Grades: K-5th. Let's get outdoors and connect with nature through the garden! Enjoy hands-on and inquiry-based activities with plenty of time for exploration and creativity. Examine the living soil, seeds, parts of a plant, and pollination, as well as learn how to grow your own food. During the final class session, celebrate our garden by preparing and eating a salad that we have grown ourselves! Each week, students will meet in the art room first, and Ms. Sopoci will then lead them to the garden. Pickup will be at the garden located at the far end of the Haisley parking lot and bus loop. Please have students dress in close-toed shoes and clothes that can get a little dirty. Classes may be rescheduled for inclement weather. Instructor: Jennifer Sopoci. 6 classes.

Focus of each week:

Week 1: Garden safety
Garden planning
Scavenger hunt
Seed planting

Week 2: What a plant needs
Preparing the soil
Planting salad seeds
Sign making

Week 3: Flower planting and cleanup
Prepare native plant garden
Sign making

Week 4: Measure and observe our growing garden
Sign making
Seed planting

Week 5: Pollination! How do pollinators play a role in our garden?
Plant native plant garden
Sign installation for native plant garden

Week 6: Harvest and eat our salad and celebrate our time in the garden together!
Promote summer adoption

Online registration closes at 12 noon two days before the class begins. To register after online registration has closed (depending on class availability), please call 734-994-2300 ext. 0.

Grades

Kindergarten - 5th Grade

Location

HAISLEY ROOM 109 - ART at Haisley Elementary

Instructor

Jennifer Sopoci