Atlanta Public Schools – Page 17 – Tending Our Common Ground

Garden Update: March 12

I love proving to my kindergarteners that all plants (well, besides mosses, ferns, conifers, and the like) have flowers! I can’t help but appreciate their skepticism until they see it with their own eyes :)

Fresh Fruit Fridays: Grapes for Kindergarten!

Home-School Connection: Winter Gardens

Ayden’s working hard on his winter garden!

Garden Update: March 11

I’m in tough competition for my kids’ attention sometimes 🙂

Home-School Connection: Compost

Gavin, Avery, and Hayden composted their fruit and veggies craps at home! To see more about methods of home composting and to see more photos (and videos!) of our kids composting visit:https://tendingourcommonground.com/2013/08/30/home-school-connection-compost-2/

Trees Atlanta: March Visit

Home-School Connection: Reusing and Reducing

Stella reused her used soup cans to turn into pencil cups! Avi reuses his cream cheese container to bring his snack to school.

CINS Grants Announced!

Congratulations to Parker Pape for receiving a grant from the Council of Intown Neighborhood Schools for his “Rooftop Garden Home for Birds” project proposal! This project will include the installation of six bird feeders to our rooftop garden along with inviting the Atlanta Audubon Society to our school to teach each of our Kindergarten classesContinue reading “CINS Grants Announced!”

Green Eggs for Dr. Seuss’s Birthday!

Today we celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday by making greens eggs (blending spinach and eggs before scrambling)! We also read the Dr. Seuss book “Green Eggs and Ham” to encourage kids to try new things! Of course, our green team helped us compost all of our eggs shells and paper plates when we were done!Continue reading “Green Eggs for Dr. Seuss’s Birthday!”

Kindergarteners Loved their Eggs and Spinach!

I was so thrilled to receive great feedback from our Kindergarten parents regarding the lesson we did on “Green Eggs” for Dr. Seuss’s birthday last week! See more about the lesson and recipe here: https://tendingourcommonground.com/2015/03/06/green-eggs-for-dr-seusss-birthday/