How Proud Can a Teacher Be???

Yesterday, my 7th period science class finished a BIG project. After harvesting over 25 gallon bags stuffed full of lettuce, kale, spinach, Swiss chard, beets, carrots, and radishes, celebrating with a wonderful salad party, and culminating with the long-awaited, much-promised water fight, my students donated the rest of their produce (over 20 gallons) to the Rescue Mission. (yes, Jon, it was your idea a LONG time ago) Miss Scott delivered it for us after school, and we hope they enjoyed it as much as we did. As we said, not everybody gets to eat stuff fresh out of a garden, and ours was really, really good.

What a great class. What a great experience. We left our compost "can" in its special place near the school, with hopes to return next fall to find rich new soil to add to our garden. It makes it hard to leave school and eager to return...
With love, Mrs. Sellers

Boxerwood Gardens

Our 7th period class went on a field trip to Boxerwood Gardens. We took a bus; it was one hour and 10 minutes until we got there, but it was worth it. When we got there we put our lunches in back of a car and then we started our tour. First we saw the crow's nest, then Hunter took us to the angel statue. We went in the greenhouse; it had fish in there and n.e.w.t.s. The other group saw a black snake but not in the green house. After that we had lunch and we saw Uda the boxer dog. Then we saw the zig zag bridge and the great oak. By Shane

Chasing Uda(dog)

Uda (the boxer) was a big part of our trip to Boxerwood Gardens. She ran and ran until she finally pooped out.

Our class is going to Boxerwood Gardens on May 29. We are going to see all kinds of beautiful plants and we will see how they do their septic system. Ewwww!!!!!
Krissy, Shane, and Josh

Salad Party Practice

On Friday the students selected a salad dressing recipe, created it, and did their first taste test on new lettuce and radishes, comparing it to some brought from home. Mrs. Sellers

What We Did Today...

Today we picked radishes and lettuce. Before that we put worms in the garden to make the soil better for growing.
Then, when we came in we had to pick a picture for everyone that we wrote a thank you note for. Then we had to put some stuff on the pots that we made to make then look glazed and done. Everyone got have a radish if they wanted one. I had one, and it was spicy. Zac D.

One day we looked at all the plants and watered them. What kind of plants did we look at? We looked at radishes and lettuce, and we took a picture with the whole class. Today we put in worms that were really big and disgusting. Shane B.

Today we picked lettuce and radishes. I didn’t plant any radishes; I didn’t think I would like them, but they are ok. Ryan S.

After...

May 1, 2009