Jenna Shea

Upcoming Project: Growing Potatoes

I think planting potatoes would be super fun for the kids! I’m thinking we could get started the week of March 11th… Now all I need is some old tires and some seed potatoes. Anyone able to help?

Video: A Semester in Review {Fall 2012}

Check out the video the kids made reviewing everything we did in their Environmental Education and Nutrition lessons this fall! Our Fall Garden {2012} from Jenna Mobley on Vimeo.

Home-School Connection: Trees Atlanta – Murphy

Great Feedback from Ms. White!

My goal as the Environmental Education teacher at Springdale Park is to teach students the standards they learn in their homeroom classes in a new and meaningful way. This fall, I taught my first grade students about fiction and non-fiction in the context of pumpkins around Halloween. We also used fiction and non-fiction books onContinue reading “Great Feedback from Ms. White!”

A Robert Frost Poem: “Putting in the Seed”

You come to fetch me from my work to-night When supper’s on the table, and we’ll see If I can leave off burying the white Soft petals fallen from the apple tree. (Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea); And go along with you ere youContinue reading “A Robert Frost Poem: “Putting in the Seed””

Finding Symmetry in Leaves

This week, we continued our study of leaves connecting it to mathematics – specifically geometry. Students learned about symmetry and finding lines of symmetry in different shapes. Then we used what we learned about identifying trees by their specific leaf shape to create symmetrical leaves from folded paper.

Home-School Connection: Kaitlyn

Look at the HUGE leaf Kaitlyn found at the bus stop this morning!

Home-School Connection: Isabelle

Isabelle found one of the gingko trees we’ve been learning about in her own backyard!

New Composters!

The kids are loving the new Envirocycle composters that were purchased for us by Schoolyard Sprouts. We picked them because the kids can independently put the food scraps in the barrel since they are low down to the ground. The kids can also mix the compost independently (in a way that is really fun forContinue reading “New Composters!”

Trees Atlanta: December Visit

We were so fortunate to have Lauren Sandoval, the Education Coordinator from Trees Atlanta, out to visit and teach our kids about the trees that are on our campus. We learned some of the reasons why trees are important then created posters with leaf rubbings to display the reasons. Some of our students’ work wasContinue reading “Trees Atlanta: December Visit”