Paul H. Cale Elementary

Our goal is to provide outdoor, engaging, authentic garden experiences that bring academic standards to life for our students. Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate responsibility, collaborate on nurturing plants, understand basic principles of organic gardening, experiment, explore, investigate, wonder and appreciate the utility, beauty and resilient nature of plants. For example, one of our big projects will be to plant apples trees. Studying the science and history of apples is a core part of the kindergarten curriculum. Along with the apple trees we will explore companion planting, examining what plants help the apple tree grow, and why.