Year End Fun In The Sun

As the year winds down, our students look forward to fun school wide events! Our field day is an over the top, outdoor extravaganza  filled with running, hopping, jumping and even water balloons.  Parent volunteers spend hours setting up and manning the booths that the kids rotate through. All of the activities involve movement, exercise and fun!

Then we have a kickball game where students and staff show the school what they've got. We even take an intermission break with  healthy snacks.

Modeling active healthy lifestyles for our kids is important. Kids grow up to be like the people that surround them in their lives. So healthy living has become a mantra at our school. Being involved with the American Heart Association, United Way, Cooper Institute and Healthy Zone Schools has helped us take great strides towards raising healthy kids and the teachers are all the better for it too. 
E I E I O..., It 's off to healthy living we go.

Master Gardener On The Farm Days

We love our farm and especially love it when our Master Gardener friends come out to work with us! We just held our last Master Gardener Day for the year and it was a great learning experience, as always. 

The harvesting is always the big payoff for our school farmers. They love digging up their carrots and radishes, cutting off their lettuce and swiss chard and plucking their broccoli, cauliflower and  cabbage from the stalk. Even when some of the farmers are down on their luck because their plant did not yield any crops, that old farm value of sharing kicks in and the bountiful harvests of other farmers are shared with the ones who have none. Teamwork and sharing are always a common theme on the farm.

Lessons on the farm are planned and organized so that they are matched up with grade level objectives. However, often times, we get off track with the magic of what the farm presents us with on any given day.

In any event, whether it be planned or unplanned lessons, there are always opportunities for learning and growing and hatching healthiness every time our students step out on the farm!