At this week's KidsGrow!, the focus was on building strong communities. We started off the day with a look around the garden. The rain we'd had earlier in the day mean that there was no need for watering, but our young gardeners soon realized that it was time to do some replanting, as many of our radish plants were too crowded! We were able to harvest some yummy looking radishes and find new homes in the garden for some of the other plants.
We moved on to showing how we could help our communities, friends, family, and the KidsGrow! garden! We had some great ideas from our participants, including throwing out litter, doing the laundry, and watering the garden! It's important to always think of ways to help out every community, big and small. Just like the plants in the garden, with love and care, our communities can grow and grow and grow.
After a yummy snack of strawberries and cherry tomatoes, we read two great books. 'Day by Day' by Susan Gal was a wonderful and imaginative story (featuring some very cute pigs) about how a community starts out small, and grows bigger and bigger day by day. Some of our participants did a great job reading out some of our second book of the day, 'Water, Weed, and Wait' by Edith Hope Fine and Angela Demos Halpin. This was a great story about a group of students who worked together to create a beautiful garden, and found friends in the places they least expected!
Our day was cut short by a nasty change in the weather, but all in all it was a wonderful day talking about the importance of our community. We want to give a huge thanks to Alex and Luke, who helped us out with Saturday's programming, you both are a wonderful addition to the KidsGrow! community!
Happy gardening everyone!
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