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Workshops

A huge component of SPEC's involvement in the QE School Garden are the class room workshops, led by Catriona Gordon.  

Recently Catriona led a Grade 1 class in an Insect Workshop.

The group discussed insect morphology (and later that week made up a song about insect body parts!), behaviour and identification, before being told they were going to go outside and be real bug scientists.

Heading out to the school grounds armed with pooters (bug catchers), magnifiers, and petri-dishes to collect bugs, they dived into the bushes and soon we heard ‘Look a green spider’, ‘cool an earwig’, ‘I think I swallowed a fly’ and ‘ahh, do we have to go back inside, this is fun’.  

Bug hunting was followed by a close up look at some live stick-bugs, mealy worms, QE’s butterfly collection and the favorite, a giant cockroach. The kids drew the bugs, labeled their body parts, and took away a new understanding and appreciation of the insect world and of real life science. 

Thanks

Thanks to those who came out for the work party.  The rain stopped right at 3.00 and a tough group of parents, teachers and kids showed up.  The mulch mountain was moved, the kindergarden was dug over, and later planted, the orchard was weeded, trellis installed in the garden boxes, garlic weeded, and new signs were installed.

Work Party - Thursday May 3, 3.15

Volunteer your time to help with the garden on Thursday May 3, at 3.15 in the courtyard. There are lots of big and small jobs to be done, please bring tools, gloves, and strong backs! See you there!

from seed to sprout in just 3 weeks

The seeds have sprouted in the garden beds.  Check out their shapes and colours.

Spring is here!

March 28 saw four of the new garden boxes planted up with early season seeds - peas, radish, mesclun, mizuna etc.  watch for signs of growth in a week or so.

We also planted some rhubarb and a gooseberry bush in the orchard garden.

Thanks!

Thanks to everyone who came out in the snow, rain and wind on Friday.  The soil got moved, the new kinder-garden was dug, and the raspberry trellis was installed.