On September 27th, Walter Bracken STEAM Academy Elementary School participated in the Green Apple Day of Service. The Green Apple Day of Service is a community engagement initiative that gives individuals, companies and organizations the opportunity to transform all our schools throughout the globe into healthy, safe, cost-efficient and productive learning places. Here in Southern Nevada, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is hosting the Green Apple Day of Service at Walter Bracken STEAM Academy to help them transform their campus into a "green building" at the same time saving them money long-term in operating costs. One of the projects was in the Kindergarten area and here are some pictures of them enjoying their new garden area!
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Room 4 planted beet seeds today. We used our sense of touch, smell and sight to observe the garden beds.
Ms. Pierson First Grade The first graders in room 5 were busy today. First, we had to pull out the tomato plant in order to get the bed ready for planting a new crop. The students were able to observe the roots of the tomato plant with their eyes. They then planted carrots in the bed. Last, the students harvested the peppers off of the pepper tree. We can't wait to taste them and write about it. Mrs. Williams First Grade Class We need your help!On September 27th, Walter Bracken STEAM Academy Elementary School will be participating in the Green Apple Day of Service in conjunction with the U.S. Green Building Council of Southern Nevada. With the help of 100 volunteers, the school hopes to remove the final 4,000 square feet of grass and also hopes to change out all of the school's light bulbs from 35 watst to 20 watts, which will help save both electricity and water. But the school needs your help to make this happen. The artificial grass that will replace the living grass is expensive and so is replacing more than 2,400 light bulbs.
To learn how you can help please share and visit our project page! Friday, May 30 from 8:00 to 10:00 in the playground
Items for sale include: Carrots, peas, cabbage, lettuce, kale, herbs (mint, rosemary, cilantro) peppers, eggplant, chard and more. Proceeds will be used to support Bracken's Garden program. In our garden I saw many different plants.
First, the tomato plants had red and green tomatoes. Next, the lettuce was not there any more, but the collard greens had many leaves. The leaves felt greasy! Then an insect was eating a leaf and the other leaves had white dots on them. This is what I saw in our garden. Aidan ~Ms. Swanson's First Grade Class A very big thank you to everyone who came out to our Musical Fairy Garden Dedication and Farmer's Market! It was a great success and everyone had so much fun. You can watch the choir sing and see more pictures at the Musical Fairy Garden!
The last part of February and the Beginning couple weeks of March, Kindergarten is discussing bad bugs in the garden versus good bugs. We learned about aphids, bad bugs, and that they destroy the plant. We pulled several plants that were dying because of the aphids. We saved several ladybugs, good bugs, they eat the aphids. We also learned about garlic water and that you spray it on the plants with aphids and they do not like garlic and leave or die. We also picked some sugar snap peas that were ready to be harvested. We also saw ladybug larvae on some plants. Itty bitty ladybugs will grow from the larvae. They do not look like ladybugs at first. ; ) Mrs. Fleckenstein ~ Kindergarten Have you heard? One lucky school will win one 4′x4′x11′ raised bed from Garden Farms this spring. Read below for rules on how to enter the contes:
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