Welcome to the McNear Bird and Pollinator Garden
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Welcome to the McNear Bird and Pollinator Garden 〰️
Please respect all the inhabitants of our living classroom by moving carefully and Quietly through the garden.
Restorying the Landscape
What stories does the habitat garden have to tell? Fourth grade students explored the garden as story catchers this spring. Here are some of the stories they caught!
How the Slug Got Slow
The One Tough Cookie
The Story of Slug, Salamander and Bird
The Dance of the Worm
The Bee and the Slug
The Worm Who Thought He Could But Couldn’t
Bird and Nest
A Karma Story
A Young Tree
Leaf Luck
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Stay tuned for more stories!
This project, which explores how visual art helps kids connect with nature, is a collaboration between McNear forth grade students and Garden Teacher, Catherine Sky. Following work on rewilding the habitat garden, the students, as co-researchers, collected data in the of form artworks to answer the following research question:
WHAT STORIES DOES THE LANDSCAPE TELL ?
Step 1: Using observational drawings from the habitat garden as source material, students identified characters, setting and action.
Step 2: Students drew story diagrams inspired by the twin crows, Question Woman and Answer Woman, from Greg Sarris’ book How a Mountain Was Made.
Step 3: With the StopMotionStudio app students animated their stories.
Step 4: The stories will be analyzed by each class for themes that reflect students’ perceptions and conceptions of the habitat garden.
Stay tuned for more stories as they get finished!
The Restorying project draws on the 4th grade Rewilding unit in the Fall and Winter…
…And collecting data through sound maps
Habitat Garden Projects 2021/22 School Year
GRADE 4/5 RESEARCH QUESTION: WHICH BIRDS COME TO THE HABITAT GARDEN? WHAT ARE THEIR STORIES?
These are their stories.
Kinship With Nature Through Deep Observation
Map Stories document students interactions with plants, animals and insects as they move through the habitat garden.
