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Monday, September 28, 2015

Garden based learning is alive and well with Kindergarteners at Irving Park!

Teacher Marieke Maccione and her UNCG Service Learning student Sonny Yang led a lesson with kindergarteners about soil and life cycles in their garden right outside their classroom door. Caterpillars forming chrysalis, sweet potato plants maturing, planting young seedlings all going on.



Students dug soil samples, put them in zip lock bags and took them
back into the classroom.




Magnifying glasses were handed out for up close observations. Students made drawings and wrote descriptions in their science journals.


Every Monday Mrs. Maccione conducts garden based hands-on lessons with her students. The students love it and share with each other and their teacher and their Service Learning buddy what they discover!



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