Jenna Shea

Home-School Connection: Recycling

I love to see my kids sorting their trash and recycling at home as well as at school! Check this link for more information on City of Atlanta recycling for residential homes: http://www.atlantaga.gov/index.aspx?page=493 At home (just like at school), you can recycle: Paper: All paper products (except boxes/paper with food contamination) Shredded paper in aContinue reading “Home-School Connection: Recycling”

Book Reviews: Recycling

Lesson: Introduction to Compost

All of our lessons throughout the school year focus around the central themes of land, water, air, and energy. This week, we began our unit on land by discussing the necessity of healthy land for our food to grow. Composting serves this purpose in two ways – This process “recycles” fruit and vegetable waste ratherContinue reading “Lesson: Introduction to Compost”

Home-School Connection: Compost

There are many methods to compost at home. Here’s a quick list from the most hands-on to the quickest and easiest. All equally as effective though! Compost Bin If you have an outdoor area, you can keep your own compost bin in your backyard. You can build your own with anything from chicken wire toContinue reading “Home-School Connection: Compost”

Book Reviews: Compost

For an introduction to compost, I have three favorite books – “Compost Stew,” “Composting: Nature’s Recyclers,” and “Diary of a Worm.” For classroom activities around compost, my favorite is “Worms Eat Our Garbage.” “Compost Stew” is a fun book to read because of it’s rhythm and rhyme and it’s repetitive chorus “Just add toContinue reading “Book Reviews: Compost”

Thank You!

Thank you so much to our garden volunteers for helping us weed the entire rooftop garden! The beds are looking beautiful – all ready for our fall crops! Also, thank you Schoolyard Sprouts for donating organic planting mix from Farmer D‘s and new brooms and tools for our garden!

Classroom Connection: Ms. Beaumont’s Praying Mantis

Look what Ms. Beaumont’s class found in the courtyard the other day – a praying mantis! They named him “Abraham Lincoln” 🙂

Lettuce Try It! Lesson Plans

In preparation for Farm to School Month in October, I’m helping the good folks at Georgia Organics write some lesson plans for preschool all the way through high school in a series called “Lettuce Try It.” We are hoping to provide a model for nutrition lessons that reinforce academic standards in the areas of science,Continue reading “Lettuce Try It! Lesson Plans”

Georgia Organics “Taste Test Success” Video Shoot

Georgia Organics just released a video called “Bright Ideas for Taste Test Success” and it features none other than our very own Springdale Park students! Check out the link here to learn more about implementing taste tests for kids (and to see our kids cute faces)!

A Visit from Compost Wheels

David, from Compost Wheels, came by today to teach our 5th graders about the importance of composting. He taught them about the types of food that can be composted and students completed a relay race to sort different foods between the trash can and the compost bin. Then students created posters to show how theyContinue reading “A Visit from Compost Wheels”