Bananas, Bananas and more Bananas
Today we started our nutrition classes at the Chuk Muk Elementary school.
We picked one of the grade 2 classes. Grade 2’s learn all about BANANAS.
The students learn about the parts of the plant, the care of the plant, the nutrition of a banana and have a cooking class. All this information is given over several classes. When the students have finished the program they receive a banana plant and a bag of organic compost. This year the grade 2 students will have their own compost bin and make their own compost..this is so exciting.
To further enhance the program, the school now has a working school garden and these students will be caring for the schools banana plants for 2 months before they gat their own.
Today we started the students learning about the parts of the banana plant and the role they play in it’s survival.
First off the corm and root system. The mother banana plant lives until it produces bananas then it dies. By this time new baby banana plants have started growing from the corm. It takes 9 months to a year for a banana plant to produce bananas.
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As bananas are an excellent source of POTASSIUM the soil needs to be rich in potassium. How do we make the soil rich???? By adding chicken poop and wood ash. The students will add chicken poop and wood ash around the corm every month at the school. This will teach them what to do when they have their own plant.
We explained how the corm and roots of the plant are it’s mouth and need food and water for the plant to survive. The students will be watering the school plants daily.
Next we handed around a banana leaf. Getting the students to feel it. They could feel that it was full of liquid.We explained that a banana plant is not a tree but made up of leaves rolled into a false trunk. As the plant is leaves it need a lot of water at the corm and sprinkled on the leaves. The students were really listening as they quickly were throwing water at the leaves of the plant when we visited the school garden…what fun!!!
We then explained the importance of the sun. Banana plants need a really sunny site. We gave a brief explanation of photosynthesis explaining that the sunlight helped the leaves make food as well.
We then sent all the students to wash their hands. Explaining that ALWAYS was your hands before handling food. The students then made banana smoothies. For many students it was their first smoothie. They were totally excited to be cooking in the middle school home economics room.
We visited the grade 2 compost bin putting in all our banana peals. We took some worms from our worm house and briefly showed the students the soil and worms that will soon be in their compost bin. Every afternoon the students will now empty their organic bin into the composter and pour in a bucket of water.
Finally we showed the students the banana plants they will be caring for.
In the afternoon we had the tailor from San Pedro at the school to measure all the sponsor students for their gym clothing. They receive shorts, t-shirt and a track suit. He also measured the sponsored boys for their school uniform.
