A few months ago we planted a winter/spring crop in the Three Sisters Garden. Today we visited the garden and harvested carrots, onions, and strawberries. The strawberries are from an adjacent bed that was actually planted last year. What a crop! Everything is huge, juicy, and smelling delicious...and even a little peculiar. Check out the pictures. Tomorrow we will eat strawberries and cream as a special treat. Do you have any ideas what we can do with the onions?
About six weeks ago a student returned from the garden with what looked like a huge, rather plump zucchini...at least that's what he thought it was. When we took a closer look we decided it wasn't a zucchini but a pumpkin that hadn't turned orange yet.
Now I knew that green tomatoes turned red when I put them in a sunny window, and so I wondered...will our pumpkin turn orange if we put in a sunny window. We thought it was worth a try. So it sat and sat in our sunny window next to our library books. And we almost forgot about it when we came back from Winter Break. Lucky for us we didn't. Over the past two weeks it slowly turned orange and so we decided it was time to make something yummy with our pumpkin. Today the students made pumpkin bread and chocolate pumpkin squares. We followed two recipes, carefully measuring and mixing. Both of our treats turned out delicious! Although I'm partial to the chocolate in the pumpkin squares. Now I can't wait until our next baking adventure. Last week we visited the garden and planted lots of vegetables and herbs. We planted broccoli, beans, lettuce, radishes, carrots, and parsley. Some of these were plants which we started from seed in the greenhouse a few months ago.
We also took some time to take care of our strawberry patch. We weeded and tended to the plants. We should have a lot of strawberries in the spring since the plants are thriving in the bed. Students enjoyed getting involved and getting their hands in the dirt.  Zucchini pudding with Joseph's dad We visited the school garden on Friday and picked 17 zucchinis...some as large as a cat! The students volunteered to take them home and turn them into something fabulous. Each student claimed that his or her mom or dad made the best zucchini bread, muffins, or whatever. And, thanks to our wonderful parents today we started feasting on all the treats that arrived. Yum! Yum! Yum! I guess the students were right...I ate some of the best zucchini bread and muffins I've ever had today. Tomorrow we'll continue our feast. Perhaps, you can share your recipes here.
  Before we went on Spring Break we planted our Three Sisters Garden. The students help to build the brick wall out of the decorated bricks. Mr. Schneider helped out and delivered a huge truckload of dirt. We created seven or so mounds all around the tipi in the dirt. On each mound we planted three bean plants and several corn seeds. At the base of each mound we planted a couple of squash plants. The plants were started from seeds in our very own school greenhouse. We have carefully, tended to them for the past month or so. We planted extra bean plants close to the tipi poles. Eventually, the beans will wind their way up the large tipi poles. We hope to harvest the vegetables before the end of the school year...and have a feast.
The Three Sisters Garden was installed in our school garden last year. Unfortunately, the raised bed wasn't deep enough and the plants did not grow or produce. So, we decided to hold a fundraiser and add another layer of bricks to the raised bed. We raised enough money to add another layer of bricks and more dirt. Last Wednesday we held a brick decorating event in the garden. Students decorated the bricks with all kinds of images. If you'd like to know more about a Three Sisters Garden, you can watch the short video that I've included here.  Three Sisters Garden, Class of 2008-09  Decorating a brick | About Us
This is Mrs. McKelvey's Third Grade class blog. It was started by Karen McKelvey in 2009, however, Mrs. McKelvey has since moved her blog Edublogs. In this blog we share the day to day activities in our classroom or other classroom assignments. Please feel free to comment--just click on the word "Comments" at the top of each post. (Mrs. McKelvey needs to approve all comments before they appear on the blog.) Thank you for visiting our site. ArchivesJune 2011 CategoriesAll |
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