B's Junior GardenersIt's always fun to examine your world around you as these first graders will tell you! Especially when you have magnifying glasses and get to see insects up close!
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Today we continued our explorations into the sun's energy cycle & how it plays out with the environment around us.
How does the sun's waning energy affect insects?
What part do they play in the cycle?
Why are they so important to all life?
Insect counts were held with our top counter reaching 43!
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Students learned that art, science, and nature play roles in our daily lives and can be used to explore our world.
They found joy in reflecting light like fireflies to create their classroom signs on light reactive paper and learned about how the sun can affect objects around them by creating sunprinted designs they get to take home!
STEAMing along as we grow!
Way to grow Lil' Vikes!
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Day two of fun in the sun exploring the sun's light energy through photo printing and reflection!
Junior gardeners were exploring the gardens for their print making materials and found a new fruit to them! Passionflower fruit! Soon they'll be ripe enough to taste test!
Way to grow Lil' Vikes!
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10.5 lbs of food donated this morning brings our totals 140lbs of food given this summer! Woohoo!
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Fun was had as we explored the sun's light energy in today's garden class!
First grade students made photo prints using the sun and nature from their gardens. Later they learned about reflecting light to illuminate their teacher's sign. Way to grow!
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Gearing π for our 1st garden class of the school year & finishing out our summer of food donations!
This week's harvest of green beans suffered due to bean beetles, but the vines look to be recovering after heavy intervention of the plucking kind.
10.5 pounds were donated today of squash, green beans, tomatoes, & passion fruit.
School totals are now 129.5 lbs of food donated! 2nd grade bookmark rewards are assembled & will be given out soon!
One, zero, five!
One, zero, five!
Today's 10 lbs adds to our growing total bringing it to 105lbs!
We've donated 105 lbs of food to this food pantry over the course of the summer from the food beds planted this spring by our Junior Gardeners!
What an amazing achievement!
Way to grow, B's Jr G's!
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Good morning!
What a great day to update our #school totals of donated #food from our gardens!
SOUL Food Pantry received another 17lbs of food today from our gardens, bringing the summer tally to 60.5lbs!
Do you think will make 100 before the season is out?
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