My Kindergarten students have ownership to a piece of their school, and they enjoy the responsibility of taking care of the garden by planting seeds, watering it and pulling weeds. They take such pride in picking out their seeds, planting them and watching them grow. Our class garden is where hands-on learning connects students with their environment and that is always a win win! Now we just have to keep the the local bunnies from eating our seedlings.
Garden-based learning has been viewed as contributing to all aspects of basic education, including academic skills, personal development, social development, moral development, vocational and/or subsistence skills, and life skills.
We are really lucky that our school is surrounded by such gorgeous landscape.
This house "The Newland House" was built in 1898 for Huntington Beach pioneers William and Mary Newland and is an 1898 Victorian farmhouse standing on high ground overlooking what was once known as the Santa Ana Gap, a marshy lowland between Huntington Beach and Costa Mesa.
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