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A Child's Haven Preschool Garden
It’s no secret that fruits and vegetables taste better when you grow them yourself. This holds true for children too.
Getting toddlers or preschoolers involved in a preschool garden allows them to experience plant care and nourish a responsible, consistent and positive attitude towards hard work.
For self-grown fruits and veggies children will take great pride, you can rest assured.
Before you can think of it, they will be eating tomatoes, spinach and even celery! By explaining the importance of gardening from an early age, healthy eating will become a day-to-day habit shaping the foundations of any young mind.
Importance and Benefits of a school garden
Skills learned from gardening engage all senses
A preschool garden can be an interactive playground for kids that will engage all of their senses.
Gardening encourages children to eat healthier.
Getting toddlers or preschoolers in gardening allows them to experience plant care and nourish a responsible, consistent and positive attitude towards hard work.
Gardening enhances fine motor development
While in the preschool garden, children are constantly practicing their locomotor skills without thinking about it.
Gardening introduces children to science
Using gardening as a way to teach preschool children science is a fairly new and unique approach but considerably rewarding. Not only do young ones become a part of the learning process, but they acquire practical knowledge not found in textbooks.
Gardening reduces both the level and effect of stress
Gardening can be a huge stress reliever for children as it teaches how to relax, calm down and control emotions. Spending time in nature, amongst flowers and trees has been proven to make both children and the elderly feel happier.
Gardening teaches young ones patience, improves focus, and enhances memory, too
Nowadays, preschool children have an ever shorter attention span mainly because of immediate gratification that our digital age provides.
A great way to teach children patience and also improve their focus is through regular garden care.
Gardening teaches children the responsibility of preserving the environment
Helping preschool kids get into the habit of caring for seeds and plants they’ve sown can instill a great sense of responsibility. As children spend more time in the garden, they become naturally driven to green thinking and environmental preservation.
Gardening nourishes self-confidence
Confidence is crucial for the healthy development of any child. It might come as no surprise but gardening helps children feel more capable.
Pre-K and Kinder Bridge
Junior Master Gardener
Growing good kids by igniting a passion for learning, success, and service through a unique gardening education.
Our JMG Program
Coming Spring 2020
The Junior Master Gardener program is an international youth gardening program of the university cooperative Extension network. JMG engages children in novel, “hands-on” group and individual learning experiences that provide a love of gardening, develop an appreciation for the environment, and cultivate the mind.
JMG also inspires youths to be of service to others through service learning and leadership development projects, and rewards them with certification and recognition.
Preschool Children can get involved in exploring their world through meaningful activities that encourage leadership development, personal pride and responsibility, and community involvement. Youth involved in the program develop critical thinking skills, and the ability to identify community concerns and take action to address them through individual group projects.
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