Leschi Elementary

A main objective of Leschi’s school edible garden is to instill a love of learning by inspiring students to be creative, observant and collaborative. Each plant in our garden plus the insects that reside in it provides a powerful dynamic laboratory full of hands on learning opportunities. Our goal is to enhance science and language arts education in the classroom by connecting them to lessons in Leschi’s edible garden. Students, through employing all their senses, will learn and connect meaningful experiences to what they must achieve in academics by the end of the school year. Life Lab’s textbook The Growing Classroom and other tools offered via Lifelab will be used to connect lessons in the garden to the Common Core Math and Language Arts Standards. The garden, as an outdoor classroom, will provide students with a different approach to learning about math and language arts, while also empowering students with valuable life skills. Finally, Leschi is an urban school and many of our students don’t have personal access to gardens. The Leschi garden is an opportunity to teach children the joys of cultivating outdoor plants as well as where and how food is actually produced.