This Weeks Activities

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       This week we reviewed our plans and made modifications to our original idea. After walking around the campus, we decided that we would build our planter by the banana trees behind Mr. James' art room. Hanna and I sat down and discussed what plants we would grow in our garden, here's a list of what we are planning to grow: green beans, cherry tomatoes, cilantro, mint,  basil, kale, lettuce, rosemary and marigolds. We are also planning to plant papaya and lilikoi at the lower school in the Early Childhood. We found materials for our planter, left over plastic composite from the old planter boxes. We wrote our proposal and are planning to ask Mr. Dwyer if would like to be our mentor. All construction as well as planting will begin if and when we get approval to implement our idea.
 
     Next week we hope to have gotten approval for our idea and will be able to begin building our planter box. We also hope to buy the plants we don't have and begin planting.

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  1. AnonymousSeptember 19, 2017 at 3:19 PM

    This is super exciting! I sure hope your proposal gets approved so you can start working on your project on campus. Will Mr. Dwyer be your lower school mentor, as well? Don't forget to post pics of your progress (shopping, surveying, etc)... keep us engaged :-)

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