Tag Archives: Atlanta Public Schools

Healthy Holidays: Halloween

Ms. Gulledge’s 1st grade class celebrated Halloween with healthy snacks this year! They made broomsticks using pretzels, string cheese, and chives… And ate banana ghosts! They also got an extra dose of Vitamin C (important during this cold season!) but eating oranges disguised as pumpkins! Students had a lot of fun with their healthy snacksContinue reading “Healthy Holidays: Halloween”

Trees Atlanta: October Visit

SPARK second graders had the opportunity to explore the trees around our campus with Ms. Sabrina from Trees Atlanta this week! They learned about different types of leaves from smooth to serrated to lobed. We are looking forward to our next class with Trees Atlanta as the seasons change from fall to winter!

Pollinator Garden: October 5, 2016

It’s that time of year again! Time to replant the pollinator garden. We are so grateful to Caroline of Riggins Landscaping for her expertise in choosing the perfect plants for our rooftop pollinator garden! We love watching (and trying hard not to chase) the pollinators that enjoy our pollinator garden. We hope they love allContinue reading “Pollinator Garden: October 5, 2016”

Seasonal Garden: October 4, 2016

The weather has finally started to cool down and it is time to start planting our fall garden! So far, we have planted sugar snap peas, cauliflower, chard, lettuce, and varieties of kale. Thank you to the Wylde Center for providing us with strong seedlings for our garden!

Weeds We Love and Weeds We Love to Hate

On our rooftop garden, we find a surprising amount of plants growing wild – seeds have an incredible ability to travel (even to a rooftop)! Some of the plants we find growing on our rooftop garden we do not love and try to weed as soon as we see them, like this one: Others, weContinue reading “Weeds We Love and Weeds We Love to Hate”