Category Archives: With the Community
Trees Atlanta: December Visit
Partnership with Atkins Park Featured in the AJC!
We are so grateful for our Partnership with Atkins Park in Virginia Highland. Chef Andrew has come to our school monthly for the past five years to lead cooking demonstrations using produce from our garden. You can see all of the posts about his visits here. Atkins Park is also hosting an event to benefitContinue reading “Partnership with Atkins Park Featured in the AJC!”
Trees Atlanta: Adopt a Tree Program
This year, Lauren from Trees Atlanta will be back to work with our third grade students again! For this series of lessons, students will be selecting one tree on our campus to “adopt.” Each month, Lauren will come to visit and lead an activity where students will learn something new about their tree – examineContinue reading “Trees Atlanta: Adopt a Tree Program”
A Visit to the DC Central Kitchen
Today, I visited the DC Central Kitchen along with the Give Back(packing) team. I was very impressed with several of the innovative programs they have put in place to create long-term solutions to the interconnected problems of poverty, hunger, and homelessness. They are truly using food as a tool to strengthen their community. Food Recycling The USDA estimates thatContinue reading “A Visit to the DC Central Kitchen”
Kula Project: Creating Sub-Irrigated Planters with 3rd Grade
Today is World Water Day. Earlier this week, we asked 100 third graders if they thought they could carry a jerry can full of water, and all of them said yes. When they attempted it, most kids could barely lift it. The reality is 800 million people, many children, spend the majority of their daysContinue reading “Kula Project: Creating Sub-Irrigated Planters with 3rd Grade”
Trees Atlanta: Upcoming Visits
Lauren from Trees Atlanta will be coming back to Springdale Park in the spring to lead monthly lessons with our 3rd grade students! Our 3rd graders learned so much when she came in the fall to teach them about the trees on our campus and why they are so important. Check out photos from herContinue reading “Trees Atlanta: Upcoming Visits”
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”
Field Trip to the Chattahoochee Nature Center
The third graders visited the Chattahoochee Nature Center for the Georgia Eco-Regions program. They learned about the different habitats of Georgia and the adaptations of plants and animals in these different regions. (GPS: S3L1a,b,c,d; S3L2a,b)
Atlanta Partners for Education Project for a Day
We were excited to be selected as a project site for Atlanta Partners for Education Project for a Day event. We can’t thank our volunteers enough for their work with our kids on the garden!
Tending Our Common Ground 