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First Graders have contributed to the improvement of their school this year through the use of the KidsNet grant money by planting and maintaining a garden in front of the school.

Before planting the garden, the students had professional landscapers talk to them about the site choice, plant selection and necessary soil and site preparation.

The students visited a local greenhouse to learn more about potential plantings and to plant some seeds in a starter bed for later planting outside.

Many plant and flower activities were incorporated in the Science, Math, Writing, and Reading Curricula:

• We measured our site.
• We talked about plant sizes for order and organization of the garden.
• We wrote stories about planting a garden.
• We did sequencing of the life of a plant.
• We read fiction and non-fiction books about plants and flowers.
• We studied the parts of seeds and plants.
• We planted seeds and plants.
• We cared for our garden.

Our garden is beautiful. Some flowers will blossom in the spring, some in the summer and some in the fall. Our school looks prettier since we planted the flowers. Everyone has been very respectful of our garden.

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