Author Archives: Jenna Shea

Preschool Lesson: Cool Weather Salad

South Jackson preschoolers today tore their kale, poured their olive oil, ground their salt, squeezed their lemon, dripped their honey, and broke off their broccoli to make their own cool weather salad all by themselves… All of them were brave enough to try something brand new and most of them even liked it!        Continue reading “Preschool Lesson: Cool Weather Salad”

Farm Scavenger Hunt

This weekend, Community Farmers Markets and Georgia Organics joined forces to host the 3rd Annual Farm Scavenger Hunt at Love is Love Farm as part of the Atlanta Science Festival. Families investigated soil types…  And learned about how compost is formed with David from Compost Wheels.  They learned about how some plants can grow without soil in a system calledContinue reading “Farm Scavenger Hunt”

Seasonal Garden: March 9, 2016

Today, SPARK 4th and 5th graders helped weed and plant in the garden! 45 days until our arugula will be ready to harvest and 55 days until students can find arugula at their new farmers market – the Ponce City Farmers Market on the Beltline every Tuesday from 4:00 – 8:00 starting May 3rd.   

Grady Cluster Planning Meeting

 It is incredibly discouraging that in digging through the strategic plan for one of the Atlanta public K-12 school clusters, there is no language at all, on any level, around hands-on exploratory learning or creative artistic development. I understand the intention of a 21st century college and career readiness focus but there are clearly hugeContinue reading “Grady Cluster Planning Meeting”