Class poster about cheetahs.
Many of my books are about animals and when I do
school visits I often find that these are the books the children have read,
especially if they have done animal reports. At one school I visited the class
had read my book about cheetahs, focusing on all the adjectives in the book
that described the cheetah. Then, as an art project, they made a large poster of
cheetahs and the words they had learned.
My book CHEETAH is available online as an ebook.
Cards are also available at the Zazzle site of Tom's beautiful painting of a moonrise over the lake at Camp Bovey.
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| School Garden poster, 1919 |
The United States School Garden Army, was founded by the Bureau of Education in 1917 during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson described gardening as "just as real and patriotic an effort as the building of ships or the firing of cannon" and opined that "food will win the war".
The First World War gave a real boost to the School Garden Movement, which began in this country as a way of developing courses about nature, providing a taste of the country to inner city children, and motivating youth to work together. School gardens flourished as an integral part of the war effort and were an important source of local food.
Adopting the motto, “A garden for every child, every child in a garden,” the School Garden Army was created by the U.S. Bureau of Education, with funding from the War Department and the blessing of President Wilson. It was comprised of boys and girls, ages 9 through 15. Each participant pledged to “consecrate my head, heart, hand and health through food production and food conservation to help the World War and world peace.”
For more about the history of school gardens go to https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2017/01/the-school-garden-army-in-the-first-world-war/ .
