Spring is Here!  

We welcomed our final life science unit of relationships between plants and animals within a habitat by designing, planting and creating our own habitat, a pollinator garden!  We are calling it the "B" garden, it's for bees, butterflies, bats, and birds.  So far we started our process in our grow lab.  Each student chose four plants out of our eight recommendations.  Here are Nana, Ryan, Mrs. Hock and Ms. Bryce helping to plant two types of flowers each.  Our garden will have sunflowers, cosmos, borage, ageratum, verbena, nasturtium, calendula & zinnias.  We are looking for some mature milkweed & echinacea (coneflower) that we can replant into our garden if you have access to any and would be willing to share.  

 

These pictures show the growth as of Monday this week!  I have videos for updating our students about what happened over vacation!

 

This week we also said goodbye to Miss Meg, our Farm to School educator.  She is now pursuing her education degree!  We are so excited for her next adventures, though we will miss her very much as our farm to school teacher.  This week she taught and helped us create vegetarian chili. You can access all the farm to school recipes on our rmcs homepage, under the scrolling pictures by clicking on the leaf icon.

 

We also said goodbye to Ms. Bryce.  What an amazing experience we have had with such a wonderful educator!  These are photos of our family style pizza lunch together.  Thank you Barry!  We also ate cake. Thank you Claire and Carrie!  We shared a compliment circle and she opened up all of her books. Thank you Brittany!

   It was an emotional afternoon full of good tidings, good stories and good moments.   

 

I hope you are all enjoying some time together.  I'm excited to see you all on Monday!

Thank you for all you do,
Jen Belisle