How does your Garden Grow

Gardening offers many opportunities for natural learning to occur all year long. It’s a hands-on activity that provides fantastic health benefits as well as numerous developmental outcomes that promote cognitive, motor, and sensory skills appealing to a variety of learning styles and ages to connect, challenge, and problem-solve.

Learn what to plant and how to maintain and encourage ownership in your gardening pursuits to eliminate the frustration of trampled garden beds and planters that can easily become sensory bins.  This webinar will encourage, educate, and demonstrate that simplicity is the
key to any gardening adventure; start small and ‘grow’ from there.  

Takeaways               

·       Identify the developmental outcomes of planting a garden; sensory, science, math, language, motor, art, and social skills.

·       Transform attitudes regarding getting dirty. Understand the research behind ‘why dirt is
good’ for a healthy immune system to support an early year’s horticulture
program.

·       Build foundations of ownership where the gardens are protected by little feet and hands.

·       Understand the cyclical connections that are made from year to year when we start at the
interest and level of the children.

·       Learn what tools to use and how to use them within your gardening project.