The garden has created a healing environment to explore and learn long-term strategies and coping tools while managing feelings. The children enjoy using nature photos and drawings from their gardening experiences to creating class-made posters and books and other nature-based projects to share their ideas and predictions. story Need a special cake pan We have that in our Library of Things. Gardening is promoting an interest in literacy to positive social interactions with rich language. Green Apple Garden is a nature-based playschool.
The garden is part of all learning domains, from reading books about plants and bugs to small cooking projects with herbs and vegetables. The teachers and children love tapping into their inner scientists and caring for nature. This hands-on learning promotes sensory exploration. We grow an edible garden throughout the seasons to promote hands-on gardening to table learning! We garden by using the five senses and making real-life connections while the focus is all about the process, not the product. Sweetened treats are not allowed at school. View the school’s Family Handbook for information for ways to support healthy habits while celebrating at SVP. We serve nutritious foods that fit the theme/interest and plan fun activities such as festive music, friendship art, and silly games. At Storybook Village Preschool, we make healthy habits part of the fun. We believe birthdays, celebrations, and seasonal events are a great time to include nutritious foods and active play. The preschoolers will be responsible and proud to plant and prepare their food from planting seedlings to harvesting vegetables. SVP provides nutritional and positive experiences through meaningful mealtimes as a preschool family. Our mealtimes promote healthy habits, from creating taste testings to facilitating small cooking groups in the outdoor classroom. Our school provides nutritious snacks and lunch for children enrolled in the Toddler Room and Preschool Room. We are proud of our school garden and prepare fresh snacks and healthy lunch sides daily on-site. The director and teaching staff appreciate the support from families in promoting the health of our children. To provide the best possible nutrition for the children in our infant, toddler, and preschool programs, Storybook Village Preschool (SVP) implements nutrition and physical activity policies. This program supports child care educators in implementing research-based best practices in nutrition and physical activity for children from birth to age 5. Sitting at the base of The Apple is a fine place to enjoy the sweeping river and landscape vistas in the West Village.įor a listing of blooms in the Park, view our Bloom Guide.Storybook Village Preschool is a Healthy Apple Program participant through Sonoma County 4Cs. The encircling plant selection compliments the bronze with shades of orange, brown, purple and yellow, blooming continuously from early spring to early winter. A trio of tall golden Sawara cypress create a dramatic backdrop for the sculpture. Many understory flowering trees such as magnolia, serviceberry and dogwood are scattered throughout the plant beds, giving splashes of white and pink flowers come spring.ĭesigned and donated originally by the Garden Club of New York, and later updated by Lynden Miller, the Apple Garden includes plants not found anywhere else in the park such as Japanese quince and honeysuckle.
Abundant English ivy crawls along the ground plain to create an evergreen carpet of foliage. The sculptural Japanese white pines, large native red maples and expansive oaks protect the lawns from both sun and wind.Ī diverse understory of native inkberry and bayberry bushes along with mature Japanese yews provides foliage, fruit and interesting textures. The timeless landscape in Greenwich Village consists of conifers, deciduous canopy trees and an evergreen understory. Except for a few trees in Chelsea, the plant material here is the most mature in the nearly 5 miles of riverfront parkland. When approaching the park from any West Village side street, the Hudson River comes into view through a lush layered landscape. Piers 45, 46 and 51 and their adjacent upland areas was the first section of the park to undergo construction, with its official ribbon cutting in 2002.
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Home to established trees and shrubs, the storied West Village Park area includes the Apple Garden, named for the bronze sculpture designed by Stephan Weiss at its center, a whimsical tribute to New York City. The Apple in the Garden: A Children's Book About Seeds, Plants, and Sharing in Nature Paperback Maby Tabby Adams (Author) 8 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 2.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 13.50 1 Used from 14.40 4 New from 13.50 A children's book about sharing in nature and how seeds turn into plants.
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