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Island Kids: Learning Workshop in the Garden

9/20/2014

 
Late August brought more outreach opportunities to RIGC.  
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Thanks to Sande Elinson, Nikki Leopold, and Kwasi Long, we were finally able to connect, schedule, and host the Island Kids campers in the garden for a learning workshop.  

On Friday, August 22, thirty children, ages 4-6, and their 6 counselors spent an hour in the garden. By dividing them into smaller groups we offered them three 20 minute participatory activities. 
  • Touching and smelling herb cuttings,  learning about worms and snails, then planting seeds with Julia Ferguson in the front picnic area .  
  • A scavenger hunt/exploration walk through varied sections of the garden.  
  • Sorting new materials and observing the cycle that brings compost to enrich soil  with Anthony Longo in our back working center.  
  • The visit ended with some cool water and the Inch by Inch song on the ukelele. 

If you see our visitors bring their parents back to the gardens, you may hear them explain how the garden works on weekends. "Look and enjoy, but don't touch!"  One of the college age counselors grew up on Roosevelt Island, but this was her first visit to the garden! We are so glad they all made it before the summer ended.

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