“Gardens are good for schools because they teach children the skills for survival.” School gardens can have many different uses and have been seen in many different ways, some practical and some educational.
ROMANIA - we can get both practical and educational aims - improving students' eating habits and selling garden products to get income for the school. We've sold corn this year.
Bulgaria - established our garden for growing herbs. Our goal was for our children to become familiar with certain types of herbs and their importance in human life. In the cold winter days, children like our children Daping tea "healing flower" - so called kids herbs.
La Asomada school in Cartagena (Spain), has the garden like one more classroom where our pupils learn from nature, respect, hard work, the whole process from the soil to the plate so that we give a push to healthy eating. Our pupils receive lessons on gardening every 15 days and they like it a lot, in fact is one of their favorite outdoor activities.
WALES- WE USE OUR GARDEN TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN HOW VEGETABLES,FRUIT AND FLOWERS ARE PRODUCED. THE GARDEN TEACHES THE CHILDREN HOW TO CARE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND TO GROW A VARIETY OF VEGETABLES TO TASTE AND SELL.
Turkey- We established our garden to examine the diversity of vegetables and plants.Besides, other aim is to arouse the awareness of students taking an active role in the garden by preparing, planting,harvesting.By this way our students learn the necessity of agrigulture and healthy eating habits.
Sweden - our thought is that the garden will help the children with the understanding of the growing all the way from seed to what we put on the table. Hopefully the awareness of the environment will increase. Get to know some of the similarities and differences between the countries and regions of Europe is an important and integral part with aim of the project.
POLAND - we can enumerate a lot of advantages connected with our school garden. First of all, students learn and can see how to deal with all this equipment, how to plan and take care of a plant - for some of our students it was their "first meeting" with rakes and spade. It's a wonderful experience for them when they can see that sth they did brings effects. Secondly, it's a perfect way to promote a healthy lifestyle. As we mentioned in some document in our school there was a garden many years ago. We decided to re-establish it because we know that children will learn more useful things from practise than from traditional, theoretical lessons.
GREECE: Four years ago when our school was established, we started a small garden, before we knew that we are going to participate in the Comenius project “Our school garden”. The purpose of it was and now is both practical and educational. Practical because we could grow fruits, vegetables and olives from the olive trees, so as to use them in the school restaurant and educational because in that way the kids could come closer to nature and appreciate it.
ITALY: We use our garden to get our pupils aware of Nature. How much is wirth caring Mother Nature and how great is receiving from Her when it's the harvest time. Our students, without any suggestion by us teacher, founded the "Club of Nature". The gathering place is where they planted the "European Rose"(as they call it because we planted it on 9th of my, Europe's Birthday)and there they talk - usually when is break time - aboout their efforts to care Nature. Isn't this great?!
ROMANIA - we can get both practical and educational aims - improving students' eating habits and selling garden products to get income for the school. We've sold corn this year.
ReplyDeleteBulgaria - established our garden for growing herbs. Our goal was for our children to become familiar with certain types of herbs and their importance in human life. In the cold winter days, children like our children Daping tea "healing flower" - so called kids herbs.
DeleteLa Asomada school in Cartagena (Spain), has the garden like one more classroom where our pupils learn from nature, respect, hard work, the whole process from the soil to the plate so that we give a push to healthy eating. Our pupils receive lessons on gardening every 15 days and they like it a lot, in fact is one of their favorite outdoor activities.
DeleteWALES- WE USE OUR GARDEN TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN HOW VEGETABLES,FRUIT AND FLOWERS ARE PRODUCED.
ReplyDeleteTHE GARDEN TEACHES THE CHILDREN HOW TO CARE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND TO GROW A VARIETY OF VEGETABLES TO TASTE AND SELL.
Turkey- We established our garden to examine the diversity of vegetables and plants.Besides, other aim is to arouse the awareness of students taking an active role in the garden by preparing, planting,harvesting.By this way our students learn the necessity of agrigulture and healthy eating habits.
ReplyDeleteSweden - our thought is that the garden will help the children with the understanding of the growing all the way from seed to what we put on the table. Hopefully the awareness of the environment will increase. Get to know some of the similarities and differences between the countries and regions of Europe is an important and integral part with aim of the project.
ReplyDeletePOLAND - we can enumerate a lot of advantages connected with our school garden. First of all, students learn and can see how to deal with all this equipment, how to plan and take care of a plant - for some of our students it was their "first meeting" with rakes and spade. It's a wonderful experience for them when they can see that sth they did brings effects. Secondly, it's a perfect way to promote a healthy lifestyle. As we mentioned in some document in our school there was a garden many years ago. We decided to re-establish it because we know that children will learn more useful things from practise than from traditional, theoretical lessons.
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ReplyDeleteGREECE: Four years ago when our school was established, we started a small garden, before we knew that we are going to participate in the Comenius project “Our school garden”. The purpose of it was and now is both practical and educational. Practical because we could grow fruits, vegetables and olives from the olive trees, so as to use them in the school restaurant and educational because in that way the kids could come closer to nature and appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteITALY: We use our garden to get our pupils aware of Nature. How much is wirth caring Mother Nature and how great is receiving from Her when it's the harvest time. Our students, without any suggestion by us teacher, founded the "Club of Nature". The gathering place is where they planted the "European Rose"(as they call it because we planted it on 9th of my, Europe's Birthday)and there they talk - usually when is break time - aboout their efforts to care Nature. Isn't this great?!
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