Lesson Plan: Week #6

Week #6 Lesson Plan

Theme: Wrap-Up

o   Mini Class by Lesbia

When to plant
 How to prepare the earth

o   Plant (if the kids bring seeds)
o   Write letters to community members asking for volunteers, donations, and help with the garden

  Discuss with kids what it means to maintain a garden

Ask them what help we might need, how can we ask for that help

 Talk about the different parts of a letter

·      Greeting

·      Body

o   Who we are

o   What are we doing

o   What do we need help with

·      Sign-off

o   Thank you and signature

o   Together make a pledge to care for the garden and have each kid sign it. Talk with the class about:      

 What does it mean to maintain the garden?

What are things you can do?

o   Materials 

o   Fancy paper to write the pledge on

o   Paper/notebooks

Comments:

            By biggest goal for the final week with the kids was to get them thinking about “next steps” and to make sure that they recognize the work isn't over. Just because I am leaving, doesn’t mean the garden is done. I had the kids brainstorm and then write letters to friends, family, community members, businesses, the Ministry of Education, etc., to ask for help with the garden. A few of the kids even wrote their letters to me! I was happy to see that they recognized me as a resource and as someone who could help them, even after I had returned to the U.S. After we finished the letters I talked with the kids and asked them what they thought they needed to do in order to maintain their gardens. I wrote all their ideas down on a sheet of paper and then had all the kids sign it. Lesbia and I then asked the teacher to hang it up in the room so that the students could have a visual reminder of the promises they made to keep the garden going.

Below is an example of a pledge the students at Dezandberg came up with: