this is what it looked like in back of Stanley school before their garden:
May 2008 – Before the garden
and here it is in the fall of 2009:
Summer 2009 – The growing garden!
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McDevitt Middle School garden began in the summer of 2007 with a modest effort: With free soil amendments donated by Agway in Waltham, we dug up a small patch and planted beans, tomatoes and marigolds with the summer program students. In the fall, we had a tiny harvest and collected marigold seeds with the afterschool EcoTeam. The [...] Pumpkin Lesson 1st Grade (45 min.) Book: Pumpkin Jack by: Will Hubbell Learning Objectives: - Make seasonal connection to plant life cycles - Introduce vocabulary related to plant life cycles - Connect themes of seasons, life cycles, and gardening to the children’s lives - Obtain viable pumpkin seeds to plant next spring Science vocabulary: Life-cycle Frost Rot Book vocabulary: Fierce (intense, angry) Jack-o’-lantern (pumpkin with a face) Spell (magic) Wrinkled [...] This summer, a group of Waltham middle-schoolers built a raised-bed garden at the McDevitt Middle School as part of Healthy Waltham’s summer program. Read all about it in the Daily News Tribune article. In the summer of 2008, students from the McDevitt Middle School summer gardening program learned about growing vegetables at the garden located right outside their school. Students interviewed Judy Fallows, Healthy Waltham’s Director and the force behind Waltham’s school gardens, about the McDevitt program. The interview can be viewed here: |
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