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Exploring seasonal rounds and seasonal change in the outdoor classroom today. Students testing their theories and explaining their ideas using loose parts to better understand resource gathering, sustainable harvesting & how seasonal change impacts living things.

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George Bernard Shaw once said “imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will”

This is a story of horses grazing on hay bales, but really it is a story of imagination, and how large loose parts play can connect children to the stories they want to enact through imaginative and unstructured play in the outdoor classroom!

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Today was a wonderful day of shared learning with colleagues in New Westminster thinking about where cross-curricular learning lives outside the classroom. I was super impressed with the rich opportunities for learning within the trees of Queen’s Park, and I’m pretty sure I’d teach out there all day, everyday, if I was teaching at Herbert Spencer Elementary. Swoon!

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Remembrance Day is an abstract and complex topic for young children. In the garden, we try to meaningfully connect children to the symbolic importance of the poppy by planting Flanders Field poppies in our school garden. It’s a nice tradition that we revisit each year, and when the poppies bloom in May, we can think back to our act of having planted seeds that represent the hard earned peace and freedom we enjoy in Canada.

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We’ve got a bounty of leftover gourds and pumpkins, and all kinds of squash. Some we grew, some were donated, but either way they’ve made for great conversations and playful learning in the garden classroom this week. We introduced our kindergarten classes to the mathematical routine of Which One Doesn’t Belong and were really impressed with their skillful observations and abilities to sort by attributes! Thanks @jnovakowski for introducing us to this routine.

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We peeled, chopped, and pan fried butternut squash on our camp stove in the garden today. Delicious prepared with sage harvested from the garden as well! So many kids learning how to use a veggie peeler and knife for the first time, and my nerves are a bit frazzled, but we all survived. So pleased that just about every child tried squash for the first time too 👍 Definitely adding this tasty dish to our garden classroom recipe book!

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