Monday, October 24, 2016

Making a scarecrow!


                                                                        The extended Indian summer allowed is to do so many garden activities.  Last week we made a scarecrow to decorate the back porch of our school. Surrounding him are the cornstalks from our garden.  We read a story about how Native American children’s job in the late summer was to scare the crows away from their most important crop, corn.  This was a hot and boring job, so a story about the first scarecrow was imagined by a contemporary author in the manner of a legend.


                                               We dried three quart jars of herbs.

Friday, October 7, 2016

Harvesting Herbs and Exploring Sunflowers

                Harvesting Herbs 


Mrs. Shatney taught us the names of  the herbs in our garden.  We harvested them and they are now drying in paper bags in our classroom.  Our room was full of fragrance!  We hope the cooks will use them in our hot lunches.


Exploring Sunflowers