A line most often associated with actor Kevin Costner's character, Ray Kinsella, is actually one whispered to him in his field by a voice.
At Diefenbaker last year, we held a meeting for anyone in grades 3 through 6 that might be interested in joining our Green Team for the upcoming year (the one we are in now). Quite a few students showed up and with the help of our green guru at the school (Mrs. Alvaro-who has since retired) we asked the students what they would most be interested in doing if we formed a green team next year.
Interestingly, about 80% of them wrote down gardening as the thing they would like to do most. So, we wanted to help them have a venue to do that. With the help of the district (thanks Mr. Lyseng!) we applied to have 3 garden beds installed on our school grounds as step one in a long term plan of greening our school. They were installed yesterday:
Well, since step one is done, so that means we are on to the next one. We're going to hold our first Green Team meeting next week and go from there. I do not have a "green thumb" but after successfully growing tomatoes in my back yard that we started courtesy of the tomatosphere project (if you haven't tried that with your class, you should...) We actually installed our own raised bed in our back yard and have had some summer crops for the past 2 years. My kids love it and I would say there is nothing better than picking lettuce out of your own garden to put into your salad for lunch!
Hopefully we will soon be planting some kale at Diefenbaker and reaping the benefits of our garden.
I will keep you "posted" on our progress.
No comments:
Post a Comment