Kindergarten

The primary goal of this project is to be able to reduce the sodium utilization being offered through the School Lunch Program. Several other goals I have set include learning how to dry and preserve plants, and expose kids to ideas on how salt, fat and sugar can be reduced when cooking foods at home. To achieve these goals, the premise of the project will be to start, develop and sustain a school herb garden.

Our garden goal is for the school and community. We want to make people and students aware of healthy living. There is so much violence in our city. We want to instill the best choices of ways to spend time in our children. Healthy living starts with the thoughts, the air we breathe and taking care of the earth. This can be done with planting your own foods and eventually composting. Also taking care of the garden is taking care of the community. It is a form of empowerment and beautification simultaneously.

Seymour Heights Elementary School is striving to be an innovative leader and role model for outdoor learning in North Vancouver. We live and learn in an amazing natural environment. Seymour Heights Elementary also wants to redefine the classroom. Learning can happen anywhere; a classroom does not have to be inside, in a room, in a school, it can be in the forest, by the stream, in the playground, in a vegetable garden.

Our goal is to connect our garden with in-class curriculum for all grades from Pre-K through Eighth Grade. This will include hands-on reinforcement of our Curriculum Standards and Objectives. Our Lead Teacher is directly integrating garden activities into the curriculum while working with Project Learning Tree.
We currently have an afterschool cooking club which will incorporate harvested produce into its dishes. One of our other staff members is a chef and plans to use vegetables from the garden in cooking demonstrations.