A learning support teacher at Blacktown helped students transform an area into a kitchen garden by creating garden beds, composting, and growing various vegetables like silverbeet, broccoli, bok choy, cherry tomatoes, parsley and shallots. The students worked hard to prepare, cook and eat the vegetables they harvested as their garden continued to grow over time with more additions.
3. Slowly things were transformed.Garden beds were created with lots of talking, decision making and lots of hard work producing various vegetables to harvest, prepare and eat!!
All involved in the process-we always try to use something from the garden
No-Dig garden-layers, etcWorm farms-visit from Blacktown councilOur carrots
Snowpeas, scarecrows and worm farmsSigns the students made to label vegetables
Maths -measuring –tilingCertificates when they have finished their time in the gardenCooking-measuring, ingredients, recipes
Measuring, planting potatoes, composting school fruit scrapes, signs made by the children, assessments and assessing the activities in the garden. Oral language assessments-recording
Pumpkins grown, visit to mamre- purpose/activities