Garden Classrooms

It will make possible that children in a low income low resource community have the opportunity to continue to learn about where their food comes from how delicious healthy food can be and how easy it is to grow it at a place where they go learn everyday already. Students will take this garden and nutrition education home to their parents and Garden volunteers from the community will also benefit all opportunities which they would not have access to without the help of grants such as this.

This grant will allow our students to learn about various plants and how they grow. It will provide hands on experiences for children allowing them to grow their own vegetables and to share this experience with the community. We want to create 6 small gardens one for each grade K - 5. Each grade level will plant water weed and harvest their own garden. Parents will help monitor the gardens over the summer. Our goal is for the garden to provide vegetables for the community.

The purpose of the Little River School Garden is to foster a sustainable learning environment which will enhance academic achievement promote healthy living support social development and empower students teachers and the community to learn collectively. By involving Boy Scouts Girls Scouts parents teachers and students in gardening we will educate these groups about nutritious advantages of fresh and locally grown foods healthy eating and the natural curiosity of the natural world.

This is a joint project of the local Community Council and Lincoln School. The grant will benefit our diverse ethnic student body by aligning state curriculum to hands on gardening. This will include science math critical thinking and environmental awareness. The garden will also benefit parents and the community by serving as a tool through which they may engage with the school in an activity supporting students education health and environment in a school and community focused garden.