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November 11, 2015

Lower Elementary Visits Children’s Garden at Jarboe Park

After the short trip from Montessori Tides School to Jarboe Park in Neptune Beach to visit the Children’s Garden, the Lower Elementary students were eager to get started with the day’s Thanksgiving celebration with Miss Peggy and Miss Kelly.

Miss Peggy started the group with an orientation session, where she used rocks to create a sort of compass showing the relationships between the sky, the earth, north, south, east and west.

Miss Peggy guides the group through an orientation session before the Thanksgiving.
Miss Peggy guides the group through an orientation session before the Thanksgiving.

After the instruments were passed out around the circle, she began to read the Iroquois Thanksgiving Address, Greetings to the Natural World.

“Today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things,” she read. “So now, we bring our minds together as one as we give greetings and thanks to each other as people.”

Everyone joined in to say, “Now our minds are one.” Then, they picked up their instruments and played them. And so the Thanksgiving address continued, as they gave thanks to such things as water, fish and plants.

The children had a variety of instruments to play at the end of each verse and passed them around the circle.
The children had a variety of instruments to play at the end of each verse and passed them around the circle.

Of course, after testing out the instruments, the students were ready to feast — just like the Native Americans may have. Roasted pumpkin and pine needle tea were on the menu, as well as a discussion about our local Native Americans, the Timucuans.

The pumpkin and pine needle tea are the types of food the Native Americans might have enjoyed.
The pumpkin and pine needle tea are the types of food the Native Americans might have enjoyed.

Once the feast was over, Miss Kelly guided the group in making observations about the foods they had just eaten. She showed samples of different pumpkins and a branch of green pine needles. They observed the shapes making up each item, and drew the pumpkins and branch in their nature journals.

The students observed the pumpkins, pine needle branch and the tea, and then drew them in their nature journals.
The students observed the pumpkins, pine needle branch and the tea, and then drew them in their nature journals.

Miss Kelly then tasked the group with exploring the gardens and finishing the prompt: “I feel the spirit in….”

These Lower Elementary students are working on finishing the nature prompt with a little help from the Children’s Garden scarecrow.
These Lower Elementary students are working on finishing the nature prompt with a little help from the Children’s Garden scarecrow.
The kumquat tree created a lot of interest, with students and adults, alike, trying to find ripe ones to try.
The kumquat tree created a lot of interest, with students and adults, alike, trying to find ripe ones to try.

After spending time exploring and drawing in the gardens, the students came back together to share their drawings from their nature journals.

The students share their nature journals with the group.
The students share their nature journals with the group.

Before making the quick trip back to school, the students were ready for lunch and some recess time.

Playground time is always a welcome ending to a field trip.
Playground time is always a welcome ending to a field trip.

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