garden3Miss Caitlin’s Pre-K class, with the materials and help of the Keaton-Strang family, began a garden outside on the playground Monday afternoon. The new garden consists of planted onions, spinach, lettuce, carrots, peas, green beans and sunflower seeds.

School gardens are a wonderful way to use the schoolyard as a classroom, reconnect students with the natural world and the true source of their food, and teach them valuable gardening and agriculture concepts and skills that integrate with several subjects, such as math, science, art, health and physical education, and social studies, as well as several educational goals, including personal and social responsibility.