Lower Elementary

Mckinley Garden Courtyard

The Mckinley Garden Courtyard is a lovely outdoor classroom and garden created at this point with the funding from the Lowe's Toolbox for Education grant.   We have four picnic tables for outdoor classroom time or for a lunch time cafe.  We have six raised beds, containing vegetables.   We have a brick half-circle herb garden bed and 6 large containers full of tomato plants and raspberry and blackberry bushes.  As well we have a 6'x6' greenhouse where we started and housed our seeds and starts before planting.  The garden is in what used to be a very barren cement courtyard surrounded by bl

The Great Garden of Anacostia at Thurgood Marshall Academy

The Great Garden of Anacostia is one of the biggest school gardens east of the Anacostia River in Washington, DC. Founded by a school science teacher, and in partnership with the neighboring Savoy Elementary School, the garden engages students, factuly, and staff through the afterschool weekly Green Club and through classroom projects. The garden contains 22 raised beds, fruit trees, a large berry patch, and an extensive pollinator garden.

Washington Yu Ying PCS Outdoor Education

The school is taking advantage of new construction and the need to move the current garden to create a garden space with 12 large container beds within a designated School Garden spot.  Partnered with REAL school gardens, the newly designated edible garden will be further incorporated into the school days.  The students regularly use the edible garden throughout the year, integrated within their language arts, math, science and social studies curriculum. An after school Garden Club also contributes to the overall success of the beds. 
 

Hendley Elementary School

Hendley Elementary Garden Program offers instruction and after school services for students in grades PreSchool- Fifth.

Guy Lee Elementary Gardening

Our program consists of different activities.  Spring 2014, we launched a more official garden including (6) 4'x 8'x 18" garden beds to start with & plans for expansion.  A butterfly garden, outdoor classroom space, strawberry bed & (2) 6'x 8' greenhouses are in future plans.

1st Grade = "Worm Feeders" are incorporating castings into the garden from Cafeteria food waste.

4th/5th Grades are involved in 'Farm to School' & after-school STEAM program gardening class.

E.L. Haynes Public Charter School Gardens

At E.L. Haynes Public Charter School, our herb, vegetable, and fruit garden provides a living classroom to our elementary and middle school teachers. The teachers use the garden to strengthen their core curriculum instruction and to excite and engage our students in learning. Further, the garden connects students to the source of their food before it hits their plates.

Montemalaga Elementary School

The mission of Montemalaga Elementary School is to prepare our students to assume productive, meaningful, and responsible roles in an increasinly competitive global society.  To achieve this, we strive to establish students who value healthy hearts, healthy bodies, and healthy minds.  Our school garden fosters this learning process as we provide our students with the raw materials and opportunities to develop an apprecition for all the beauty and wonder a garden can hold. 

California Montessori Project- Capitol Campus

California Montessori Project is a network of tuition-free charter schools in the greater Sacramento area.  Our schools provide a K-8 Montessori based education for childern from all socio-economic backgrounds.  The schools offer small class sizes, fully credentialed and Montessori certified teachers, and a variety of enrichment activities.  The philosophy of Maria Montessori is to eductate the whole child, so each of our schools includes a variety of art, garden, music, language and peace education for the students. 

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