Friday harvest day!

Fall is in the air, snow has made an appearance, and it's time to harvest potatoes and onions! Today we worked as a team to dig out potatoes from our potato tower and onions from our outside garden. Both of these spaces required a lot of hard work and several generations of preschoolers participated to make them what they are today. It is so wonderful to see how our gardening project has brought such life to our program. Getting our hands in the dirt is always a pleasure. We found so many worms today and we discussed the important role worms have in our soil as well as played with the wiggly creatures. Next step will be cooking up our harvest and nourishing our bodies with preschool-grown organic produce! 

Some of the Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines we worked on with this project include: 

• Gross Motor Skills: The control of large muscles for movement, navigation, and balance. 
• Self-Concept and Self-Efficacy: The perception that one is capable of successfully making decisions, accomplishing tasks, and meeting goals. 
• Conceptual Knowledge of the Natural and Physical World: The acquisition of concepts and facts related to the natural and physical world and the understanding of naturally-occurring relationships.