The experience of gardening can help homeschool students learn a lot. A garden can be very rewarding and also very frustrating. Growing a successful garden doesn’t have to be difficult. Here are some things your homeschooler can learn from working in a garden:
1. A hands-on demonstration of how plants grow: You can read all you want about plant cycles in a textbook, but until you see it in front of your eyes, it won’t always make sense. Maintaining a garden shows children how a seed becomes a plant and how weeds grow along with the plants. They see a demonstration of how weeds can choke out a plant if not cared for properly.
2. Problem Solving Skills: When your plant isn’t growing or you see holes or bugs everywhere, you need to figure out what to do. This could motivate further research on how to fix the problem.
3. Growing plants can take a bit of patience and perseverance – Sometimes it’s hard to wait for that seed to sprout out of the ground or for fruit to appear on your plant. Sometimes those pesky weeds keep cropping up and need to be uprooted and uprooted again. Sometimes it is necessary to continue caring for the plant that has insects or becomes sick. Regular weeding is required to have a successful garden.
4. Gardening can be good therapy: After working hard and maintaining a garden, it can be a wonderful experience to just go out into your garden and take a walk to look at the plants and the wonders of God’s creation.
5. Various grades can benefit: a two-year-old and a 100-year-old can learn and enjoy a garden. A small child can help plant and cover the seeds with soil as well as pick up some weeds. An older child can pick up quite a few more weeds and learn how the flower becomes the crop. All ages can help with harvesting and processing the food that was harvested.
Even children who live in a city can benefit from gardening. All you need is a bit of soil, a seed, water, and sunlight. Try some easy plants first like: carrots, zucchini, tomatoes, beans, lettuce and many more. Sometimes maintaining a garden can teach your child much more than he would learn from a book. There are many benefits for both parents and students.
