Grab your shovels and seeds, its gardening season! Planting a garden is both relaxing and educational for children, and gives you a chance to spend time outside together as a family talking about different plants, how they grow and how to take care of your garden. Gardens don't have to be planted in the ground; your child can plant his own personal "garden" in a large pot (or several pots) that he has decorated ahead of time.  

Children will enjoy having the responsibility of weeding and watering their plants and watching their garden grow.  

Children are curious, like to learn by doing and love to play in the dirt. What a great summer project for the whole family.

We Have a Little Garden

By Beatrix Potter

We have a little garden,
A garden of our own,
And every day we water there
The seeds that we have sown.

We love our little garden,
And tend it with such care,
You will not find a faded leaf
Or blighted blossom there.

Together Wee Can "Around the World" -- our next stop in June, is Brazil.  The children will be discovering and celebrating Feliz Dia dos Namorados (which means Happy Valentine's Day) on June 12. Watch for your child to say "Eu tu amo" (I love you) in Portuguese.

Sincerely,

Leslie Wilson