- April 22, 2017
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Preschoolers and kindergartners get their hands dirty planting lettuce.
A preschooler plants lettuce.
Preschoolers at Children First read with Hershorin Schiff Community Day School kindergartners.
Sonya and Nikita Myer read with a preschooler from Children First.
Sylvia Adams, right, shares a book with a preschooler from Children First.
Eileen Levin and Daniel Fine talk about the book they read with a preschooler from Children First.
Anderson Miller, left, scoots along the playground with a new friend from Children First.
Hershorin Schiff Community Day School student David Turner
Hershorin Schiff Community Day School students Elodie Savrelli-Smith and Lila Levin
Students from both schools played together on the Children First playground.
Tommy Pettiti, left, plays with a Children First preschooler.
On March 7, kindergartners from the Hershorin Schiff Community Day School had a lot to share with preschoolers at Children First’s Helen R. Payne Center.
The visit to Children First, a campus that provides early childhood education programs for underprivileged children and their families, brought together the two groups of students to read books, play together and get their hands' dirty planting lettuce and flowers in the garden.
The relationship between the two schools began five years ago when students from Children First visited Hershorin Schiff Community Day School to learn more about their garden.
“The little kids were drawing pictures of what they wanted their garden to look like and getting examples from our garden,” said Shionna Brady, a kindergarten teacher and gardening coordinator at Hershorin Schiff Community Day School.
Brady said that the visit to Children First was also an opportunity to share their resources, recognize diversity by meeting with other students and to get preschoolers excited about stories and reading.
Students from Children First were not allowed to be identified by name by school policy.
