Ben Chambers Elementary SchoolGARDEN “RESCUE” EVENT

Green Apple Day of Service 2012

Kindergarten does “Kid Writing” about

the overgrown garden in their

journals with their teacher, before the

event!

Teacher Trish Thomas gets students organized, while 5th graders line the fence

to grab bunches of weeds to fill the Building and Grounds trailer.

************************************Principal Gladys Leon works early on with some moms from Wilson College’s Women With Children Group that came out to help.

IT WAS A TEAM EFFORT AT THE GREEN APPLE DAY OF SERVICE

Looking better as the afternoon went on, students, moms, dads, and teachers all pitched in to reclaim the garden. ..and

no one was afraid of a little dirt!

Mrs. Thomas’s 3rd grade, pictured here with Barbara Aldrich from PSU Extension 4-H, Katie Kough and WWC from Wilson College, and some classroom moms, plan to use and maintain the garden for

various projects and inspiration going forward…along with any of the classes at Ben Chambers. The strawberry patch was retained and the other 3 beds will be replanted with ?????????

(They have ideas!)

Before…

…and After!

THANK YOU STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF, COMMUNITY AND PARENT VOLUNTEERS,

AND BUILDING AND GROUNDS DEPARTMENT FOR ALL YOU DID TO HELP

RESCUE THE BC GARDEN!

GREEN APPLE DAY OF SERVICE 2012