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Name of the program: “MyPetWormyWorm”
Environmental sustainability-­‐ teaching children at a young age about their footprints on the earth during their lifetime.
My passion is to teach and nurture kids and their innate curiosity about nature. Honoring all life including plants, animals and insects and how we have a responsibility to protect and sustain all living things.
Goals of the program:
A place to discover, create, play and grow. An outdoor learning experience supporting nature and creating a place to learn about healthy choices. Discover in the garden, create art , create and cook with what you grow, play ABC games to learn about the nutrients in what the kids are growing, learn the names of different fruits or vegetables, insects that you might see or that help in the garden, animals that you might see out in the garden. The ABC’s of different flowers and herbs. Learning about the body. An alternative way of learning the ABC’s.
Size of your garden:8’X46’
Where and what you grow or plan to grow:
We plan on growing flowers and herbs such as chamomile, mint, marigold, lavender, lemongrass, roses. We also plan on growing vegetables like bellpeppers, radish, squash, sunflowers, snowpeas, greenbeans, corn, tomatoes, lettuce artichokes, spinach, blueberries, strawberries, and herbs like cilantro, basil, green onions garlic.
A description of your youth audience and their involvement in the project:
My audience is pre-­‐k and K along with the assistance of their parents or caregivers. Each parent or caregiver is responsible for their own child.
They will have job roles such as: safety, assisting in clean up.
Kids will have a place to come and discover nature by learning about composting ( where dirt comes from and what it is made of ) how “ wormy worms” make the best pets because they help us to compost and recycle food scraps and waste ( which can then can be recycled back into the garden) They can discover how food is grown and how to tend and care for it. They can with the help of their parents or caregivers chart its progress of growth. Children can gain a better understanding of what kind of nutrients comes from the food they are growing. They can learn what kind of nutrients our bodies need to grow and be healthy.
The kids can use the garden as their classroom and they will be able to adopt a “wormy worm” to start their own composting at home and bring home their own recycled containers of seeds that they grow so that they can monitor the growth.

They will take home recipes to cook at home for their families and we will compile a book of recipes that they make on their own along with pictures or stories that they write while in the program.
A one year program 1 day a week. The families can take home what they grow in the garden once it is fully grown. We will harvest seeds for the following class to use and grow.

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How will I integrate the topics of nutrition and agriculture in my curriculum?
The children will be able to learn the topic of nutrition by cooking and preparing meals. They will use and Gather and harvest what is in the garden to utilize in their project. They will be able to see by a chart of what vitamins, minerals are going into the meal. They will learn by playing games and through handouts; what vegetable, fruit, animal, insect, vitamin begins with A,B,C?
Resource for explaining agriculture: will be shared by story time through reading books and singing songs.
How will you use the harvest from your garden?
The harvest will be used in cooking projects, or given to the families in the program to use. The other food scraps will be composted and given to the wormy worms to make soil to recycle back into the garden.
The seeds will be harvested to share with the families and some kept to plant in the following season.