Gardening

Gardening with children provides them with skills that help our child’s development. Gardening is a great physical development activity. Young children can practise locomotor skills, body management skills and object control skills while they move from one place to the other carrying tools, soil and water. Kids need to learn about how plants grow and where our food comes from. Simple experiments with plants, like the bean experiment, can help encourage their interest. There’s so much hidden magic beneath the surface. Through the bean plant experiment, teachers demonstrate every stage of germination. Skills learned from gardening engage all senses. Through gardening we want our students to unleash their imagination by growing their very own magical mini garden whether at the school or their homes. Children, over a period of time, become more responsible due to caring for plants and develop a love for nature. Being a Waldorf inspired school, it is our bounden duty to incorporate nature and gardening in the child’s regular activities. Teachers take their class students to the garden at least once a week, including the sand-pit area. Children are made to work together and most of the children are very fond of watering the plants. Gardening presents wonderful opportunities for children to bond and help each other look after and nurture their flowers and this is precisely the learning outcome that TBPSB teachers aim for.