OMG they have a real actual garden for the kids to grow real plants!\r
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Please forgive my enthusiasm but my son has been cooped up in an apartment (pretty luxury but a no-backyard apartment anyway) his whole life. And now he is spending part of his day tending his tomato he planted! How cool is that? Every morning he goes out in the outside classroom at this Goddard school to water his plants, clean up the soil and learn about life cycle and composting and recycling.\r
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This is a very unique program I've seen only at this location. I am not an environmentalist or naturalist or anything like that, but I do love the idea of my son learning to garden and learn about responsibility and appreciate the foods other people grow for us to eat.\r
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If you want your children's hands touching real earth and real dirt, take them to this school. I was sold the very first minute they took us out to the classroom they built outside for this program.\r
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Mark
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