Welcome to the McKinley Garden online lessons! Join Ms. Marney and sing along with our Garden Song (see below), and click the lesson at the left to learn more about Earth Day.

This week, you can learn about Wangari Maathai and her positive contributions to the world by clicking the worksheet to the left, and take a Virtual Tour of the McKinley Garden by clicking the link below.

This week our worksheet “Salad People” encourages thinking about different ways to put together a healthy and beautiful salad , see link to the left. And click below to take a virtual tour of Ms. Marney's garden.

Click the link below to hear Ms. Marney and kids sing a song about bees, Every 3rd Bite. The worksheet at left is all about reading labels on foods, with some optional activities to explore food and nutrition.

This week we explore birds and one very special pollinator, the Monarch Butterfly. Click below to watch a video by Ms. Marney about the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly. The worksheet at left is about birds and their songs, and includes some activities about listening to birds as well as a podcast that Ms. Mindy recorded in a local canyon, with many local bird calls.

The worksheet at left is about "gathering words," using the garden or nature to inspire us to make a word bank that can be used later for poetry and creative writing. Check out the worksheet first and then be ready to get inspired and write some words while you take another virtual tour of the McKinley Gardens with Ms. Marney, see link below.

This week our focus is creative writing and poetry, with the garden and nature as a way to get inspired. Click the worksheet at left to explore options and ideas for creative writing, building on the “word bank” that students created in the last lesson. And click below if you'd like to meet Ms. Marney's chickens!