Since our last update, we have done a lot of playing, celebrating, garden shop-making, and garden chores. For Halloween, students enjoyed making and eating pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and making nature-themed masks. Some of our favorite student-led games have been "Owl vs Weasel" and "Fox Tail," both of which playfully focus on team building and compromise. During garden time, many students are still choosing to build and run "shops" in corners of the garden; trading and tasting garden-grown treats with one another. We are at the end of our second week of hosting some PSU students in Garden Club! These folks have come in a few days a week, each time bringing a new activity or game to offer the kids during garden time. One of these activities was a resource trading game, intended to set the kids up further for success in running their garden "shops," and to learn a bit about resource sustainability. Other games they have offered include Pollinator Matching and an Animal Habitat game. This week, as almost all of the leaves have fallen and the rain is beginning to set in, the kids' shops are turning into shelters and we have started putting the garden beds to sleep. Kids spent yesterday using last year's sunflower stalks as building tools and clipping comfrey and raking leaves to sprinkle on the garden beds. With the time change and winter darkness, we come back into the classroom as the sun goes down to play games (Wildcraft, Cauldron Quest, and Bug BINGO are some favorites) and craft and wind down for the day. Chloe and I have seen such growth in our Garden Club group so far this year and look forward to seeing what each child continues to bring to the group as we move into the winter season.
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