Day 1 - Here we are!

It was a great start to Garden Camp 2008 at Edison today!

We started with introductions, then got right into it. First, we journaled and asked ourselves these questions: What do all plants have? What do all plants need? How do we use plants? There are many different answers and we wrote about them in our journals.

After a quick snack, Mr. Johnson reviewed how to water plants, pull weeds, handle tools, how to plant, and handed out gloves for us to use. Then we went outside and planted peppers and tomatoes.

Part of Garden Camp will include serving our community. Together, we wrote a letter that we will give to our neighbors near Edison asking if we can be of service to them and help keep their garden and yard looking as good as ours. It is good citizenship to be of service to our neighbors.

After lunch, we toured the school grounds looking for different kinds of plants that grow right in our own yard. We took samples of these and brought them back to our classroom to organize them. There were big, small, skinny, wide, and many other ways to categorize them. We put them on large sheets of paper so that we can study them further and better organize them.

One of things we need to do twice a day is water the plants that we are growing. We have some things growing in the greenhouse, but some things are outside too. We all get the opportunity to water, weed, and care for the things we are growing.

We wrapped up the day with silent reading, learning about the different parts of a plant, and listening to Miss Smith read to us. Overall, it was a great first day of Garden Camp at Edison Environmental Science Academy!