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BY JAMIE MOORE
Students learn responsibility through hands-on care.
Local Head Start programs provide hands-on garden lessons.
PHOTOS BY JAMIE MOORE COMMUNITY IMPACT
Local Head Start programs help families bloom
outside the classroom walls. How it works Teachers are integrating gardening and other experiential learning into the curriculum, helping children connect with their environment while building essential developmental skills. Head Start’s commitment to the community goes beyond its garden program, o ering comprehensive early childhood education and family support services to low-income families, according to Danielle Engelke, Head Start director at Community Action. The services include utility assistance, help with medical appointments, adult education, job training and housing support.
Near the playground at A. Washington Child Development Center, children scoop soil into garden beds, their small hands guided by teachers as they learn to plant sun ower seeds. At Head Start and Early Head Start locations in Hays and Caldwell counties, programs facilitated by Community Action Inc. of Central Texas, learning extends beyond the classroom. The overview Head Start gives children the opportunity to get their hands dirty—literally. Thanks to a $5,000 grant from ScottsMira- cle-Gro, four area locations, including Kyle, San Marcos, Lockhart and Luling, planted the seeds of a new garden program where learning blossoms
Children tend to the plants they help care for.
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215 S. Reimer Ave., Ste. 130, San Marcos www.communityaction.com/headstart
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