On Monday, after returning from our spring vacation, we were welcomed back to school with some beautiful blooms! After 6 long months, our tulips FINALLY blossomed, showing us their beautiful red blooms. They were joined by some daffodil friends, too!
While we were excited to see our beautiful flowers out in the garden, we got to work planning and planting some "cool weather crops" in our raised garden beds. This year, we are trying out the Square Foot Gardening Method in our second grade bed! While we will all work together to plant beans and tomatoes on the ends of our beds, the middle of our bed was broken up into squares--while the size of our garden beds don't allow us to break our bed up into 3 rows of 8 9"x9" squares. Each second grade classroom has 6 of these squares to plant in, and students are working in small groups to grow one cool weather crop in their bed.
On Tuesday, the giraffes and elephants got together in their small groups to decide on what to plant and plan out the way they would plant their seeds. Each group could choose from peas, swiss chard, beets, radishes, or spinach, and depending on which crop they chose, they drew a diagram of how they would need to plant their seeds on our Garden Blueprint
On Thursday morning, we headed outside after snack to plant our seeds just before the rain came! We each took turns planting our seeds in the soil, and we all got a chance to water our seeds after sowing them in the garden bed and we labeled each square with a paint stirrer
When it wasn't our turn to grow, we spent our time exploring the other parts of the garden and reading books from our Little Free Library!
We even brought a little bit of our garden back to our classroom :)
We can't wait to watch our seeds grow over the next few weeks!
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