Flower-Week in After School with Mandala flower coloring and talk of Pollination!
Happy Springtime!
-Grace
As promised: Plant-Dye painting activity!
I made the Dyes by chopping up Beets (for the magenta/ pink), Cabbage (for the Blue/grey), and Onion skins and Turmeric root (for the yellow/gold), and Simmering them in pots of water for 48 hours.
Done.
How awesome is that?
My students also LOVED it— The paints/dyes also smelled like food!
-Grace
Last week’s Plant Part theme for after school was ROOTS! We did Potato Prints AND Plant-Dye Painting (with Beets, Turmeric, Onions and Cabbage!) What fun it is to make art out of food!!
The Photos above are from Potato Printing (cutting shapes into the spuds and transferring the shape with paint onto paper!)
More photos to come of Plant-Dye Painting!
Happy Spring!
-Grace Cherubino
Radishes!! Beautiful Easter Egg and Cherry Belle radishes made up Beeman’s first harvest of the season. The first graders who planted them practiced writing creative adjectives to describe how their crop tasted. They tried their radishes raw, and stir-fried. Delicious!!
School lunch from a kid's perspective
An elementary schooler writes a blog about school lunch!
It’s planting time! Slowly but surely we’ve been getting seeds in the ground. Today Vets, Beeman, Plum Cove, and East Gloucester got a delivery of seedlings to plant as well. We’ll be planting kale, broccoli, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, basil, and more! We’re hoping this time spring is really here to stay.
The Gloucester Daily Times stopped by to snap some pictures of first graders planting golden beet seeds.
This week in after school, our Plant Part theme is: Leaf!
Yesterday at Veteran’s, we walked around the school identifying leaves, and then went inside to draw them!
Peas,
Grace
No-Bake seed cookies! And some great student-made seed mosaics.
-Grace
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