First day garden to table with love at Ponsonby Primary school with Mrs Mardell - week 1

Today Mr Bish said 'Mrs Mardell will be coming in to take groups for garden to table' and like magic Mrs Mardell appeared. Room 7 has two garden to table groups. Each group has 40 minutes of gardening time and every fortnight a cooking session or a special project to make our garden the best garden full of love.

The carrots

The carrots were first in the list if things to do Mrs Mardell wanted them to 'own' their learning so she asked them -

What do you know?

What do you want to know?

Then we had a quick garden tour looking at all the beauty planted by Mrs Robins and Simon.

We found courgettes ripening and two carrots that we ready to pick so we harvested them with sage leaves for our cooking. Tommy noticed the courgette plant had a 'moss' growing on it. Good skills!

Time went quickly and next week we will be in the gardens digging and planting learning about the 'what we want to know' things with all the stuff we never of dreamed of to make it all make sense.

The Beans

The beans did the same thing as the carrots.

 In the end our boards looked like this.

What we know:

What we want to know:

Wow it looks like we will be busy! 

Next week we get our hands dirty- yayyyy!

Fact of the day. Courgettes have another name - ask us what it is?