Program Basics
We are a ___-free area
Nuts
What does SEL mean?
Social-Emotional Learning;
Building upon your ability to understand your own thoughts, feelings, and motivation
What do we plant from the ground in the garden
Seeds
What is environmental justice?
Understanding the environmental issues facing areas and implementing ways to mend them.
I'm feeling sick, what should I do?
Slack instructors, Ammy, & Jasmin. Stay home. Email Jasmin if you are showing/test positive for COVID or want to make up the hours
Who teaches each group? Littles (Ages 4-5), Bigs (6-7 & 8-10), Junior Naturalists (Middle School)
Littles - Tasnim & Rune
Bigs - Calvin & Melanie
Junior Naturalists - Colleen
A kid needs to use the bathroom in the middle of a lesson, what do you do?
Take the kid with a buddy (another kid) to maintain the rule of 3
What does a plant grow to protect their seed?
Fruit
Name an example of how environmental injustice is seen water, air, or food
Examples can include water pollution, industrial smog, and food apartheid
I'm running late, what should I do?
Slack your Instructor, Ammy, & Jasmin
What should you do every 15 minutes you are with the kids?
Remind them to drink water & head counts
A child asks you if they can share their snack with their friend
Compliment their kindness and kindly remind them that
Kids should have tools no higher than…
Their belly-button
Your lunch of salad, can of soda, bag of chips, and cup of fruit was half eaten! How do you dispose of them properly.
Compost the salad & fruit. Recycle the can in the blue recycling can. Throw the bag of chips in garbage.
What is the back door password?
5043
Name the 4 summer sessions
1. Botanical Builders
2. The Kitchen & Beyond
3. Growing Artists
4. Trees & Me
A child doesn't have an umbrella or a poncho and it starts to drizzle. They want to stay outside but start feeling cold. What can you do?
Retrieve a poncho from the front entrance.
When weeding, the proper procedure is…
1. Follow the weed's stem to the ground 2. Pull out the ground with all of the roots 3. Shake out the dirt from the roots close to the ground
What is a food apartheid?
Marginalized communities that have limited access to fresh food but large access to fast foods
I can't cash my check! What should I do?
Tell Jasmin, Ammy, and HR
What does your day-to-day schedule look like?
8:30
9:00
9:30
10:00
11:00
11:30
12:30
1:45
2:00
2:30
2:45
3:30
4:30 (Thursday)
8:30 - Arrival
9:00 - Kids Arrive
9:30 - Transition Inside;Introductions & SEL
10:00 - Gardening
11:00 - Reading
11:30 - Lunch
12:30 - Return From Lunch;Activity Starts
1:45 - Snacks
2:00 - Center Time
2:30 - SEL/Feelings Wheel
2:45 - Clean Up & Dismissal begins
3:30 (Monday - Wednesday) - Interns Dismissal
4:30 (Thursday) - Interns Dismissal
A child is having a medical emergency. What do you do as an intern?
- Stay calm - Call 911
- Call security ((914) 797-1520) and tell them your location
- Move students away from child
If a kid wants to eat a plant, what should you do?
Ask the instructor before clearing the plant for consumption;Instructor should be as sure that the plant is edible as they are sure of their name
How do environmental issues correlate to inequalities in society?
Environmental issues disproportionally affect marginalized communities.
Sing a garden song!
Digging, Thank you, Good Morning, The Garden Song!