1. Education and Culture DG
Lifelong Learning Programme
Let ’s make a garden
in Pre-School
Little Europeans Know Each Other
EU LLP COMENIUS
Multilateral School Partnership Project
Bourbon L’Archambault
FRANCE

2. For the 5 year-old Children
« Grande Section »
September-October 2012

3. Weeds have invaded our garden…
STEP 1 :
clearing our garden.

4. Children have made discoveries ...
An earthworm ...

5. Weeds will use compost...
What energy !
How effective !

6. 1
2
STEP 2 :
digging our garden.
3

7. STEP 3 :
using the rototiller
The ground is
returned and airy.

8. STEP 4 :
using a rake
to level the
ground.

9. What do we plant, sow in our garden ?
Six strawberry plants
bulbs of hyacinths
tulip bulbs
crocus bulbs
A variety of salad :
corn salad

10. a tulip bulb
Corn salad seeds
a bulb of hyacinth
a crocus bulb

11. 2
1 a dibble 3
STEP 5 :
4 let’s plant our bulbs
5

12. 1 2 3
STEP 6 : let’s sow our corn salad seeds
1- draw a furrow in the ground
2- sow the seeds
3- cover the seeds with soil

13. STEP 7 :
let’s plant our strawberries

14. Here, our plantations are completed. We do
not have to water them because the rain came
just after!
Now, be patient! Our first flowers should
bloom in spring.
Hope that our strawberries will be productive ...
Yum, yum!

15. The plantations of « petite section »
3 years old
Radish seeds We sow
Our album We compress And we water

16. The flowers
Onions of
Tulips
We put our onions then we water a little We hide onions in the earth

17. Bulbs of hyacinths
We pay some water into small glass jars then we put bulbs
above; roots have to touch the water.
We planted one in the earth to see the
difference.

18. A few days later …
 Our radish grew a lot!!
 But PATIENCE still….
Before being able to eat our  There are big roots !
radish and offering flowers
to our moms

19. Selective sorting with
« petite section »
A green Trash can
From this album
We sort out by material A yellow trash can
A blue trash can