Our school has a garden that is planted by students, cared for over the summer by local families and teachers....
There is this amazing teacher who started it....
Next, she started composting...this year she asked if my students would do the daily composting job....I thought it would be a good break for them from the drudgery of academics.
They learned the routine and are serious about it...they ask really good questions about how it works (they had the amazing teacher for homeroom last year so they had some ideas).
The teacher assistant who walks them through it looks up mini videos about the different aspects of composting and shows them during their breaks....
I just followed them around one day and took pictures......
Each classroom teacher who was willing received a bucket next to the trashcan. When their class has lunch, the students are instructed to only place the fresh fruit or vegetables they didn't eat into the bucket. (our students eat in their homerooms)
Our students pick up the first bucket and empty all the other bucket's contents into it, they have lids that are put in place after it is empty.
They empty it all into the compost station.
Beautiful!
I got the number cards from Doodle Bugs out --------the pumpkin shaped 5's and the Bat 10's!
These cards are a great resource!
Eight school days ago my math group counted by fives....badly.
Today they did it perfectly!
They counted and arranged the pumpkin cards in order almost every school day and ...
Presto!
It such a little thing that makes a BIG difference!
That's about all I got!
It is cooling off, leaves are turning yellow and red, and I need
to finish a class...like yesterday!
That's what I'll be doing this week-end.
Have a good one,
Paula
