Tag Archives: #growingschoolgardens

Roots of Wellness: Planting Lifelong Healthy Habits With Your Children

Parents play the most enduring role in shaping how children view health, balance, and self-care. Every meal shared, walk taken, and calm response modeled becomes a lesson that lasts beyond childhood. By turning everyday routines into learning moments, families can make wellness feel natural rather than forced.

WE SENT HOME PLANTS – Here’s how to care for them & Photos!

5th Grade Garden Club Students under cover during a rainy Learn @Lunch In Garden Club, we focus on growing food, and part of our mission is to help our families grow at home! So, your kids are brought take-home plants to your family after school Friday. We are here to support our families to grow!Continue reading “WE SENT HOME PLANTS – Here’s how to care for them & Photos!”

School Front Native Garden Planting Event on May 4th

Make an impact and change the front of our school! We know it’s been pretty ugly up there, but a lot has been happening behind the scenes! JOIN the TFES Garden Club for the “School Front Native Garden Planting Event” Event Details:   When:  Tentatively – May the Fourth Be With You!  1:30pm – 3:30pm  Who:Continue reading “School Front Native Garden Planting Event on May 4th”

How To Care for Your Student’s Take-Home Plant

THIS WEEK:  WE ARE SENDING HOME CUPS OF SOIL WITH SEEDS YOUR KIDS PLANTED!  In Garden Club, we focus on growing our own food, and part of our mission is to help our families grow at home! So, we send home starter plants and are here to support our families to grow! We have putContinue reading “How To Care for Your Student’s Take-Home Plant”

Soil, Sun, & Science with Students

A 5th grade class and all the 4th grade classes joined us in the TFES Food Garden to help us correct our soil and prepare our beds for planting! With the help of Penn State University’s Agriculture Department, we had our soil tested. We used the reports, as we applied math and soil science toContinue reading “Soil, Sun, & Science with Students”

Join Our Family Event – Saturday, March 22nd

Our 1st event of the year is the Garden Family Kick Off on Saturday, March 22nd, 1-3pm (event approved!)  All the March 22nd updates, info, and RSVP link at https://bit.ly/Garden-Kick-Off2025. All are welcome to join the TFES Garden Club Community!  NO CLEARANCES NEEDED for this Family Event, but Parental Supervision is Required for anyone underContinue reading “Join Our Family Event – Saturday, March 22nd”

TFES GARDEN CLUB: SPRING INTO ACTION! 

Grab your calendars and your garden maps! It’s time to plan the spring! SPRING NEWSLETTER: with all the happenings and links. Highlights below: 🍅 EVENT: Garden Family Kick Off: on Saturday, March 22nd, 1-3pm 🥬 SEE THE SPRING SCHEDULE.          🥒 STUDENTS LEARN @ LUNCH starts in April! Some important seeds below:       🌽 Students still wantingContinue reading “TFES GARDEN CLUB: SPRING INTO ACTION! “

TFES Assembly – Setting Goals to Get Healthy in 2025!

Garden Club was so honored to be featured for this year’s Heart Health Assembly for all TFES students and staff. Coach Elise Carlin of Life in Motion Boot Camp, helped raise the roof and the cheetah’s heartrate with exciting exercise and an interactive lesson about how exercise is good for our body and mind. TracyContinue reading “TFES Assembly – Setting Goals to Get Healthy in 2025!”

Photos from Garden Club Learn @Lunch (K, 4th, 5th)

We had a fabulous fall time in the garden, this past Wednesday with the Kindergartner, 4th grade and 5th grade students. First, we enjoyed our bagged lunches in the outdoor classroom, then learning all about pumpkins, touring /planting in the Food Garden, eating whatever we could harvest, playing with the sensory table, and a funContinue reading “Photos from Garden Club Learn @Lunch (K, 4th, 5th)”