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Let ’s make a garden Let ’s make a garden in Pre-School in Pre-School

Let ’s make a garden Let ’s make a garden in Pre-School in Pre-School

For the 5 year-old Children For the 5 year-old Children « Grande Section »« Grande Section »

September-October 2012

Weeds have invaded our garden…

STEP 1 : clearing our garden.

Children have made discoveries ...

An earthworm ...

What energy !

How effective !

Weeds will use compost...

STEP 2 : digging our garden.

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STEP 3 : using the rototiller

The ground is returned and airy.

STEP 4 :

using a rake to level the

ground.

What do we plant, sow in our garden ?

A variety of salad : corn salad

Six strawberry plants

crocus bulbs

tulip bulbs

bulbs of hyacinths

Corn salad seeds

a crocus bulb

a tulip bulb

a bulb of hyacinth

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STEP 5 : let’s plant our bulbs

a dibble

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STEP 6 : let’s sow our corn salad seeds

1- draw a furrow in the ground

2- sow the seeds

3- cover the seeds with soil

STEP 7 :

let’s plant our strawberries

Here, our plantations are completed. We do not have to water them because the rain came just after!

Now, be patient! Our first flowers should bloom in spring.

Hope that our strawberries will be productive ... Yum, yum!

The plantations of « petite section »The plantations of « petite section »3 years old3 years old

Radish seeds We sow

Our album We compress And we water

The flowersThe flowers

Onions of Tulips

We hide onions in the earthWe put our onions then we water a little

Bulbs of hyacinths

We pay some water into small glass jars then we put bulbs above; roots have to touch the water.

We planted one in the earth to see the difference.

A few days later …A few days later …

Our radish grew a lot!!Our radish grew a lot!!

But PATIENCE still…. But PATIENCE still…. Before being able to eat our Before being able to eat our radish and offering flowers radish and offering flowers to our momsto our moms

There are big roots !There are big roots !

Selective sorting with Selective sorting with « petite section »« petite section »

From this album

A yellow trash canA blue trash can

A green Trash can

We sort out by material