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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

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Monday, June 18, 2012

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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

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  • A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. - Henri Frederic Amiel
  • When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. - Unknown
  • Must we always teach our children with books? Let them look at the stars and the mountains above. Let them look at the waters and the trees and flowers on Earth. Then they will begin to think, and to think is the beginning of a real education. - David Polis
  • My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. - H. Fred Ale
  • What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden. - Elizabeth von Arnim
  • The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. - Vita Sackville-West
  • All gardeners live in beautiful places, because they make them so. - Joseph Joubert
  • The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination. - Thomas D. Church
  • Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not. - Jerry Baker
  • Reading is good but the garden is the best teacher. - Christine Allison
  • In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. - Kozuko Okakura
  • The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. Gertrude Jekyll
  • Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas. - Elizabeth Murray
  • In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. - Abram L. Urban
  • The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. - Hanna Rion
  • A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. - Unknown

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What Teachers are saying of the Wilson Garden

In kindergarten we read aloud books by Lois Ehlert in the fall and talk about where our fruits and vegetables come from. Later in the spring we study how plants grow from seeds and what plants need to grow. Being able to see and experience the real thing as we are learning about it makes a big difference with our young learners.

Sue and Susan
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Mrs. Gately and Mrs Hauserman's class would like to donate some money to the Wilson Garden to help with the expenses that you may have throughout the year. Thank you for all of the time and energy you have given while volunteering for this wonderful cause.
Have a great day,
Andrea Gately
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In the fall the third graders took soil samples to examine in order to determine which would be best for growing plants. This tied into our resource unit.

Thanks,
Mrs Gates
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We talked about anatomy of a plant, germination and what seeds need to grow. The children have labeled diagrams of a plant and been expected to learn the function of each part.
We have explored the concept of compost, reading books about the subject and looking at the compost bins in the garden area.
We have also kept a garden journal with written observations of changes in the garden (i.e. drought in the fall) and illustrations of flowers, plants, and insects observed in the garden.
This spring, we sent flower bulbs home with each child and the children learned about the concept of perennial plants.

Thank you!
Kim Symon, Teacher
Wilson Elementary

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