Soon enough, it will be time to plant cool weather crops like peas, salad greens and radishes. If you want to help out, be sure to keep checking our Volunteer page or contact your child's classroom teacher about volunteering.
Last week's rain seems to have sprung spring into action! The last of the snow piles have melted and gone, the grass is turning green, and now look at the 2nd grade circle garden (pictured above)! All those tulips have poked through the ground and are growing happily amongst some rogue crocus flowers. Last fall, the 2nd grade team unexpectedly ended up with twice as many tulip bulbs as they anticipated, so there were plenty leftover for some experimentation. You can see the clumps of flowers in the center of the circle; for those, the kids planted bulbs upside down, sideways, shallower and deeper than the recommended depths to see if those factors would affect how they grow. As you can see, nature sometimes has amazing ways of self-correcting for those little adjustments!
Soon enough, it will be time to plant cool weather crops like peas, salad greens and radishes. If you want to help out, be sure to keep checking our Volunteer page or contact your child's classroom teacher about volunteering.
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