The Gardening Station consists of two metal garden beds filled with soil, two chairs, pots, scoops, small gardening hoe's and fake flowers. We created this area because the children were picking the vegetables too early in the veggie patch. The Garden station will give the children the freedom to plant and pick as they please and allow them to have fun whilst getting their hands dirty.
benefits:
- sensory development
- dramatic play / imagination skills
- fine motor development
- creates environmental awareness
- sparks creativity
- encourages social skills
- helps develop life skills
Intended Outcomes
Outcome Group 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world
👍2.4 Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment
Outcome Group 4: Children are confident and involved learners
👍4.1 Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
👍4.2 Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
👍4.3 Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another
👍4.4 Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials