Specialty Crop

Offers a wide variety of classroom and hands-on activities, both indoors and out, and part of the curriculum involves horticulture and farm-to-harvest classes, in which students learn about where their food comes from. In the spring, they plant seeds in trays under grow lights at the school, and then transplant starts into a geodome greenhouse that serves as the Fort Laramie Community Garden (see listing above).

The preschoolers help care for vegetables throughout the growing season, and then harvest what they grow. These classes lead into the holiday cooking class, in which students learn firsthand the origin of such things as baked squash and pumpkin pies (among their favorite activities is pulling seeds out of a halved pumpkin or squash).

The curriculum helps prepare preschoolers for kindergarten in a variety of ways, from academic readiness to life-skills building, and the activities allow them to build on their own natural curiosity.