Little growers with big ideas about seeds
Gardeners Julie and Emma visited the year one pupils of King’s Cross Academy this month, with an agender to empower the five and six years olds with knowledge of all things seeds!
As part of the Seeds for Better World project we carried fruits and seeds and colours in pastels to the classroom…
Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?
Can we label sweet corn a seed?
How do walnuts grow?
Ask year one - for they are now sure to know!
After matching plants to their fruits, the children spent time looking through magnifying glasses at conkers, peas beans, leeks, giant seed pods, and even a Banksia nut pod all the way from Australia. Then using lots of colours created beautiful images of their specimens! Now they await the warmer months for their sowing and sprouting to beginning!
Notes from the Garden
I wake to a bright crisp winter’s day. Finally … after weeks of storms ravaging the country.
As the year ends we are reminded of the magic and beauty that our gardens bring, as places to come together and celebrate, even in difficult times. This year it has been challenging not to be taken over by fear and despair, with extreme weather events being mirrored in different ways across the world, from floods to droughts; with the most recent political events; with wars destroying land and displacing entire populations; and with the constant increase in the cost of living creating ever more inequalities between those that have and those that do not.