Kindergarten

Samuel Smith Elementary

We are committed to providing our students with a dynamic, varied learning environment while emphasizing lifelong healthy habits. Our school garden will help us reach this goal. Every seed planted sprouts a new opportunity for kids to develop healthy eating habits. Learning about the process of growing food helps children develop a deep understanding of the connection between healthy eating, a healthy planet, and a healthy body. The Smith School garden will offer an opportunity to integrate math, science and health curriculum into a dynamic, interactive setting.

Warner Ave Elementary

Our goal is to expand our K garden to reach all grade levels in our school and provide children with enjoyable education about food, horticulture and their natural environment. We wish to positively influence their food choices, provide life sciences education outside a classroom and begin composting food waste. Our garden will provide edible resources for food preparation. We can encourage children to choose healthy food by engaging them in fun, hands-on experiences growing, harvesting, preparing and sharing food from a young age.

Park Side School

This garden grant will make it possible for our school to improve and repair our existing area and provide educational resources for students and teachers. This grant will enable us to provide the resources to replace or repair garden beds, reinforce shade over the work area, secure fencing, and obtain needed supplies for gardening and educational garden-based activities.

Princeton Friends School

Our garden's goal is primarily to create access for young students (beginning with 3rd grade) to make myriad connections between what happens within the classroom to what happens outside. Our school's Quaker foundation means that we begin this project with awareness of the importance of direct experience and observation as we encourage students to reach a deeper understanding of the value of stewardship and their connection to their inner selves as well as others.

Korematsu Elementary School

This grant helps us expand our gardening program to reach the younger Primary classrooms. It will also add a larger area closer to the playground which will make lunchtime & recess garden activities possible. Local school garden programs have also been talking with District Student Nutrition Services about growing vegetables for school lunches where the district would purchase student harvests. The lunchtime/recess space is integral to that plan.

sharon elementary

Our goal is to offer the entire school community a venue in which they can engage in activities that beautify their school, support learning, and provide food to our critical needs families and the Friendship Trays program. Create a volunteer network for kids and parents to get involved together to help extend positive food attitudes and choices into the home. The garden will offer students a fun setting in which to practice skills of planning, goal-setting, and patience, life skills that are inextricably linked to gardening.

D.U.E. Season Charter School

With D.U.E. Season Charter School's garden, we seek to engage students in multiple areas that will create a healthy nutrition environment and foster improved student health. We believe that in doing so, this early learning experience in the garden will create positive relationships between healthy food and children. This school garden project will enhance a program that will provide nutrition education and sustainable agricultural practices. Through this outdoor classroom, students will be able to take away a number of important lessons from subjects that they would normally learn indoors.

Buena Vista Horace Mann

The BVHM garden was created in 2011 to accomplish 5 goals:
* Bring learning to life in an outdoor classroom
* Support science in a public schools
* Provide students with direct access to nature in an urban environment
* Foster 21st-century learning that emphasizes environmental sustainability and innovation
* Deliver standards-based, outdoor science education to public school students

Crossway Community Montessori School

The goal of the garden grant would be to invest in three Cold Frame Greenhouses, seeds and potting soil for them. These greenhouses would enable the school to grow vegetables such as lettuce and spinach during the winter months. The garden part of the curriculum would then be active all four seasons and would complement the three existing outside gardens. The produce from the greenhouses would be utilized in all cooking for the classes, and the 100 students in the school could observe, maintain, and cook with the produce from the greenhouses.

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