Photo: Queen Elizabeth II Public School students in Jenn Kranenburg’s Grade 3/4 class display one of the vegetable gardens they have planted at the Chatham, Ont. school on Friday May 20, 2016. Pictured clockwise from left, are: Kaydence Kronemoore, Tiara Blackbird, Trinity Walker, Mirah Coll, Caiden Coll, Jayden Ogle, Chloe Tetrault and Hannah Doey. Ellwood Shreve/Chatham Daily News/Postmedia Network
If your introduction to gardening was planting a bean in a plastic cup in science class, Jenn Kranenburg’s Grade 3/4 class has taken it to a whole new level.
Her students at Queen Elizabeth II Public School have not only planted a large garden at the Chatham school, they have used their coding skills to create apps to educate people about the vegetables they are growing.
They have also joined forces with C-K Table to offer a dining experience on May 28 at the school, using locally-sourced food. The event is the Junior Edition of the Community Dinner Series by C-K Table.
Kranenburg said this interest in locally-sourced food began during the last school year when her class started an indoor garden to provide fresh produce for Outreach For Hunger. Read more…
May 24, 2016
Ellwood Shreve
www.chathamdailynews.ca
