Students get gardening
Projects give students opportunity to learn about environment; aids attentiveness, emotional development, teachers say
Winchester Public School kindergarteners Kaan Ronan Kaplangul, 6, Dordjie Radusinovic, 5 and teacher candidate Nathalie Collin look through the school's garden in Toronto May 4, 2012.Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail
Winchester Public School kindergartener Emma Syme, 5, searches through the school's garden in search of items that help a garden grow.Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail
Winchester Public School kindergarteners Emma Syme, 5, Nisha Kulkarni, 5, and Lily Stewart-Ward, 6 look through the school's garden.Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail
Winchester Public School kindergarteners Emma Syme, 5, Kaan Ronan Kaplangul, 6, and Jackson Cook, 5, look at items they've collected in the garden.Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail
Winchester Public School kindergarteners Dordjie Radusinovic, 5, Nisha Kulkarni, 5, and Emma Syme, 5, look through the school's garden.Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail
Winchester Public School kindergarteners Emma Syme, 5, and Nisha Kulkarni, 5, look at a snail found in the school's garden.Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail
Winchester Public School senior kindergarten teacher Nathalie Collin and students, Niya Ibrahim, 5 and Emalia Derricott look over the items found in the school's garden.Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail
Grade 12 student Henry Lau shovels chicken manure into a wheel barrel in the garden at Windermere Secondary School in Vancouver, B.C., May 2, 2012.Rafal Gerszak
Grade 11 student Kaitlyn Fung transplants rhubarb chard outside the greenhouse at Windermere Secondary School.Rafal Gerszak
Grade 11 student Nichoson Nguyen walks in circles to operate the industrial composter in the garden at Windermere Secondary School.Rafal Gerszak
Grade 12 student Kevin Liu waters plants in the greenhouse at Windermere Secondary School.Rafal Gerszak
Students turn in the cover crop in the garden at Windermere Secondary School.Rafal Gerszak