Kinder "Garden"

School:: Poinciana Elementary
Subject:: Science
Teacher:: Joanna Campanile Janell Matos
Students Impacted:: 40
Grade:: K
Date:: July 2, 2017

Investors

Thank you to the following investors for funding this grant.

Roxanne VanBlarcom - $10.00

Joel Grossman, MD - $25.00

Kelly Kinsland - $20.00

Gigi's Children's Boutique - $235.00

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 40

With the communities help and support our forty kindergarten students are learning to love and appreciate the natural world around them. Our garden has been such a great opportunity for the students to learn and for us to teach on a level that allows all of our passion to be poured into the best learning environment. Through the garden the students were excited to read, write and use math skills to deepen their knowledge about growing a garden. The students have kept journals about plants and their growth throughout the year. Having a school garden has also inspired them to teach their families and to begin to grow things at home.

The students have been able to grow tomatoes, potatoes, basil, carrots, peas, green peppers, onions and eggplant. They have learned the importance of taking care of the garden by watering and picking weeds. We have all enjoyed eating vegetables and herbs from the garden. A few students have never tried a pepper before and were so excited to try it because they grew it from a seed.

Your generous heart and giving spirit has placed smiles on the children's faces and hearts that will last a lifetime.

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Working Hard

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Growing Pepper

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Watering

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Eggplant

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Original Grant Overview

Goal

Our goal is to continue keeping the garden alive while teaching students to participate in an ongoing project at Poinciana Elementary School!

What will be done with my students

This gardening project will start at the beginning of the school year and be a permanent ongoing project. The students will learn to plant and care for their community garden. The students will learn what it means to work hard and work cooperatively in order to eat healthy and live a healthy life style. This project ties into the kindergarten curriculum through science, social studies, reading and writing. The students will be learning what plants need, parts of plants, how to work together, reading about garden care and writing about what they have accomplished.

Benefits to my students

The outcome of this wonderful project will inspire children to plant and care for a garden. It will help them understand why it is important to eat healthy and how they can be part of their community. There will be 40 kindergarten students and 2 teachers working to create and maintain this garden. The whole school will benefit from the beauty and the food that will be grown in our school community.

Budget Narrative

We will first purchase all the items from home depot. We will work with the students to plant and take care of the garden. They will be able to watch it grow and then enjoy eating it.

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	8 Basil Plants	$40.00
2	6 Bags of Soil	$50.00
3	4 Assorted Herbs plants	$20.00
4	10 Bags of Vegetable Seeds	$20.00
5	10 Bags of Sunflower Seeds	$10.00
6	Screen to keep out Squirels and Bunnies	$50.00
7	Weed Blocker	$25.00
8	2 Tomato Plants	$25.00
9	2 Potato Plants	$25.00
10	5 Pepper Plants	$25.00
	Total:	$290.00

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Kinder "Garden"

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Impact to My Classroom

Original Grant Overview

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What will be done with my students

Benefits to my students

Budget Narrative

Items

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