In conjunction with Singapore Green Award 2019, our Nursery One children and their parents were invited to the SSDB workshop on 3 August 2019. This workshop aim to promote sustainability by conserving resources and encourage reuse and recycle habits in our young ones. Additionally, to instill good values in them, to be responsible and caring.
Prior to the workshop, the children helped to clean up and prepared a plot of soil for gardening at the school’s roof garden. They experienced the plucking of overgrown grass and the digging the soil etc.
After which, the children engaged in cookery session with their class teachers. They were taught how to cook vegetables soup and stirred fried eggs with tomatoes and onions. Teachers explained to the children that instead of throwing away the vegetables scraps and seeds, they can use them to regrow.
The children learnt that there are a number of fruits and vegetables that they can replant and grow themselves instead of buying from supermarket. They used tomato seeds, onions, potatoes and carrot tops.
The children together with their teachers created growing kits out of recycled materials. They regrow the vegetables scraps and seeds using the DIY pots which they made with their teachers and peers.
The children developed a sense of their responsibility and showed care during the gardening process. Making sure their tomatoes plants were exposed to sunlight and watered them everyday. After two weeks, the children were amazed and proud to witness their tomatoes plants grew well! And, the carrot tops grew into healthy carrot greens. In time to come, they can even harvest the greens to eat.
As a closure to our SSDB project , children and their families participated the workshop on 3 August 2019, Saturday. The parents brought in recycled items to create their own home growing kits with their children. It is a beautiful wrap!
“No one can do everything, But everyone can do something”
