The mound of earth at the back of the building is already gone and work has begun on our very own Nature garden!
It was always part of the plan to have a Nature Garden as part of the play and learning opportunities at Kaleidoscope and now that we are settled in, the time has come to get on with the task of creating it! We want the garden to be as accessable as possible and to this end, we have had to remove a HUGE pile of earth to level the garden with the building. Simon has skilfully left us the bare bones of the garden shape, which is going to include a water feature for pond dipping and frog spawn,
a digging pit, for discovering lots of lovely worms in,
lots of bug hotels of various designs, a group seating area for story telling or group show and tell and an orchard of native fruits.
The first part of the garden will be a vegetable plot with child sized raised beds, strawberry planters and maybe even our own compost maker...A miniature 5 bar gate will lead the children through a "secret" tunnel of living willow and then out into the naturte trail section of the garden beyond.
This is such an exciting project and will bring so much fun and dicovery to the Pre-school. Children will be able to learn about the changing seasons, how food grows, how to look after plants, what bugs lurk beneath the soil and in the water, what birds visit our gardens and so many other things.
We are looking for fundraising support for the items in the garden and will also be needing your practical gardening help as the project continues. Also, if you have any NATIVE plants that you could donate, they would find a very happy home and be most welcome on our very empty (so far) plot! They do need to be native however, and probably prefering woodland conditions as we are trying to create an English woodland feel to the garden.
Please watch this space for news about how you can help and how the project is going. This project is something so special for our children and they will enjoy it for many years to come, so it's worth the hard work we put in now. Thanks!
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