Garden Time!

School:: Vineyards Elementary
Subject:: Science
Teacher:: Joanna Campanile Janell Matos
Students Impacted:: 40
Grade:: 1
Date:: July 27, 2021

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

Harry Debes Family Foundation - $335.00

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 800

Thank you for supporting our classroom and helping us make our vision a reality. With your help and support our students are learning to love and appreciate the natural world around them. Our garden has been such a great opportunity for the studetns to learn and for us to teach on a level that allows all of our passion to be poured into the best learning enviornment. 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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Original Grant Overview

Goal

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.

What will be done with my students

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 1st grade 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 1st grade 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, harvest, cook and then enjoy eating it. The students will learn to plant and care for their community garden.

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	20 bags of Soil	$140.00
2	A Variety of Seeds	$30.00
3	Tomato Plants	$25.00
4	Pepper Plant	$25.00
5	Lettuce	$25.00
6	New Garden Bed	$90.00
	Total:	$335.00

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