I’m excited to announce that our Summer Vegetable Spotlight garden activities are live on our website and ready for action!
Vegetable Spotlights are a way for early childhood educators, as well as kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade educators, to further their students’ understanding about each vegetable growing in their schoolyard garden.
Our summer series covers ten warm season crops. Each spotlight consists of information on maintenance, harvesting, nutrition and cooking tips and is accompanied by a garden lesson that has been inspired by an age-appropriate garden themed book. All lessons were created with both Kansas Early Learning Standards (KELS) and Missouri Early Learning Goals in mind and are listed at the bottom of each lesson page.
Vegetable Spotlights are a great way to incorporate some garden curriculum into your summer program, so pick a few activities out based on the crops you’ll have growing in your Summer garden! Don’t forget to snap some photos of these activities in action too. We’d love to hear and see how they’re working for you and your students!
Taking a break from your school garden this summer? Check out our Closing Down the Garden blog post to make sure your garden is ready when you come back this Fall!
And if you haven’t already, please email syg{at}kccg.org or reach out to your SYG coordinator and let us know you won’t be growing this summer. Thank you!
