My Students

Have you ever taken a school or family trip to a farm or a botanical garden and were amazed by the things we can grow? People living in the cities take for granted how easy it is access foods just by going to the super market and paying for them. Imagine the feeling of growing your own food!

Our school is the first public school to adopt a vegetarian lunch menu.

The transition was very smooth due to the support of wonderful parents who believe in helping their children live healthier lives by making healthier choices and keeping active. My group of four year-olds has an early start to living a healthy life. They are a curious bunch who love science thanks to a previous project and are always asking great questions about their environment. They are city children who haven't had the opportunity to experience growing their own crops. With the mixture of their curiosity, our school philosophy, and environment, I believe this project will bring a great learning experience to them and the other children of our school.

My Project

Imagine growing your own food and eating it for lunch. This is something that can work successfully at our school. It will be a perfect learning experience for the students of my class as well as students in our early childhood school. We are requesting gardening tools, seeds, and soil to help convert our unused outdoor space into a garden where we can plant fruits and vegetables. When the time is right for harvesting, we can use the crops for our school lunch. This project will have a lasting impact for many years to come and hopefully inspire other schools to adopt a similar philosophy of educating students to make smart choices and remain active to live a happy and healthy life. To tackle the obesity epidemic, we must start early. Ideally from birth, but we do the best we can with what we have to work with.

Growing your own crops is a rewarding experience I want my students to partake in.

It's not every day students in the city can say they grew their own food and ate it for lunch. At our vegetarian school, our students have the opportunity to learn about agriculture as early as the pre-k years. Please help our students experience a once in a life time opportunity!