Kindergarten does “Kid Writing” about the overgrown garden in their journals with their teacher, before the event!

Teacher Trish Thomas gets students organized, while 5 th graders line the fence to grab bunches of weeds to fill the Building and Grounds trailer. ************************************ Principal Gladys Leon works early on with some moms from Wilson College’s Women With Children Group that came out to help.

Looking better as the afternoon went on, students, moms, dads, and teachers all pitched in to reclaim the garden...and no one was afraid of a little dirt!

Mrs. Thomas’s 3 rd grade, pictured here with Barbara Aldrich from PSU Extension 4-H, Katie Kough and WWC from Wilson College, and some classroom moms, plan to use and maintain the garden for various projects and inspiration going forward…along with any of the classes at Ben Chambers. The strawberry patch was retained and the other 3 beds will be replanted with ????????? (They have ideas!)

Before…

THANK YOU STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF, COMMUNITY AND PARENT VOLUNTEERS, AND BUILDING AND GROUNDS DEPARTMENT FOR ALL YOU DID TO HELP RESCUE THE BC GARDEN! GREEN APPLE DAY OF SERVICE 2012