Doors to Adventure: Library Learning Patch-Success and Failure!

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Library Learning Patch-Success and Failure!

One of our group read a very interesting report that he had prepared about squash. I learn something every time from these children--for instance, I didn't know that squash was related to the pumpkin. Today we talked about diet in different countries. First we made a list of the food everyone had eaten yesterday. Then I read from a book, What the World Eats. I believe all of us found it very interesting to learn how different the diet is in different countries. We observed that here in the U.S. we seem to eat much more processed food than people do in other countries.

A totally fascinating book!

Then it was outside to the garden! Everyone was eager to see the progress. Our sunflowers had grown so much that the children needed to stake them up with longer stakes. And of course the weeding needed to be done. They worked like troopers. After the chores came the fun part--planting and watering. Our squash seeds never did sprout--so we planted zucchini and crookneck plants. We also planted a cucumber.

Team effort!

Then of course everything was watered very thoroughly. It's a good think we have sandy soil! It drains well. :)

Now it was time to enjoy the first fruits of our labor--wrong!! We pulled two radishes and lo and behold--they didn't make. They were long and stringy. So we replanted them to give them another week. Disappointing!

Our first failure!!

But we did have success after all. We decided to check the onions. Each child pulled an onion--and washed them and ate them! Yummy!! The library smelled like onions for a while.