Teaching Children the Alphabet A through Z by Planting a Garden

The children with the “garden”…they all look adorable!!!!!!

 Mary Linsmeier Schools and Children's Edu-Care in Brookfield are teaching young children the Alphabet in a new way. This summer the children will learn about the rain-forest in conjunction they will be nurturing nature by creating an Alphabet Garden.

The pretty sky and the entire Alphabet A through Z.

The children will be learning the Alphabet A through Z by planting plants which include flowers, herbs, seeds, and vegetables that start with letters of the Alphabet. While children learn the Alphabet they will learn to care, nurture, and investigate numerous aspects of gardening.

From little hands come beautiful things. “Look Miss Anna…Where should I put this?”

The staff hope the garden will give children many opportunities to learn sights, sounds, smells, taste of nature, the environment and take pride as well as enjoying responsibilities and various progressions a garden beholds.

The Alphabet Garden is a center driven project for Brookfield, this project will hopefully enhance and engage the community surrounding the center, establish partnerships with local residents, businesses, and of course the families.

Miss Anna painting (young toddler teacher) containers for our “ABC Garden”….. this project evolved during our April Staff Meeting.  Everyone was very excited to get started.

 “Mm is for Moss Roses”…we have a special plant container for each letter of the alphabet.

As the staff involve the community and residents around them they ask for donations of plants, and are in need of soil. The staff has been fortunate to have all containers donated by a local painter, along with donation of soil for them to get started on planting and plants are prepared to be accepted for donation.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our ABC Garden…buckets, soil donations and plants.  Now, “let’s watch our garden grow”!

Pam (Transitional Toddler Teacher) scrubbing the many donated paint covered buckets we used for planting.  A local painter and paint company donated all of the buckets.  Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!

 

Some of the children have helped already with filling the pails with dirt and helped water the garden. More pictures will soon be available on the Mary Linsmeier Schools and Children's Edu-Care Facebook Page.

The staff at Mary Linsmeier Schools and Children's Edu-Care in Brookfield thank everyone for the continued commitment and support to this center, the community, the environment, and socially sustainable knowledge and values.