Kindergarten

The goal of our garden is to help educate our children and their families in understanding how their food is grown and how they can use it to learn healthy ways to use it. We want to expose them to new varieties of foods and to appreciate the need for eating healthy and making good choices.

The goal of our garden is to grow vegetables that our students can taste as part of their nutrition education. We provide our students with a comprehensive nutrition education that involves them tasting healthy foods every third week. The opportunity to grow our own vegetables adds a unique dimension to our program as it would give ownership to our students over the food they eat. We would also use the garden in science classes, helping to teach students about how plants grow.

Through Rethink, students develop as leaders by learning about and creating change in schools focused on food, nutrition and lunch, the environment, building designs, student conflict and discipline, reward structures, and physical activity. They have successfully introduced 21st century green bathroom designs, garden plots and healthy, tasty, local foods as policy in New Orleans public schools. Rethink is requesting Whole Kids Foundation's support to work with our Rethink school club at Edgar P. Harney Academy to develop a model garden plot on their campus in Central City New Orleans.

The goal of this garden is to provide an outdoor learning environment for our school. Students, staff and the community will benefit from the beauty of the space, the harvest it yields, and the education it provides. Students will learn to care for and become active participants in their environment. They will be able to extend their learning beyond the classroom walls and into hands-on activities. We will strengthen our arts integration mission by incorporating the aesthetic aspects of the garden into many learning areas, like movement, science, art and writing.