Can you help kids learn about gardens?

Live Oak Elementary has been transformed into an outdoor learning space, complete with gardens that grow fresh fruits, vegetables, and an outdoor instructional area for reading, math and science lessons. We’re excited to give students the opportunity to learn how some of these life processes work in the real world rather than just out of the textbook.

This outdoor classroom space is allowing us to do that, but we need help. We need volunteers to encourage and share the experience.

School gardens can provide an environment in which students can learn to work with teachers, parents and volunteers while growing plants and learning the relationship between people, plants, and wildlife.

School gardens are a special kind of learning center. Like libraries, they need responsible and knowledgeable people to do all the jobs necessary to maintain them as functional places in which children will learn.

We invite you to get out and garden alongside the children and show them how important it is to make wise choices in eating the foods they grow.

We live in such a great community we know we have some outstanding gardeners who could share talent and knowledge with our children. Make the classrooms come to life with actual demo’s and step-by-step guides.

If you can help one or two hours a week or month, you can make the difference in a child’s life. Let us help you help them. Also, any donations of gardening tools would be appreciated. Please call (760) 791-5194 or email [email protected].

Gloria Polakof