SAD #41, 2006-2007

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KINDERGARTEN

The first item of business for the first class of day was to take a class picture. Above, Vickki Cary's Kindergartners gather around a tray of seedlings planted last year about this time and a tray of 2-year old seedlings that will be transplanted to a transplant bed by Third Graders sometime in May.

The first major step is to fill a peat pot with potting soil. Here, three little people work dilligently while it appears the fourth member of the team has her pot full and is either waiting for instructions as to the next step or wanted her picture taken. I'm not at all sure she realized she was going to be on the world wide web but here she is.

Mrs. Walker's class of Kindergartners was the second class to do the deed. They gather around the table of seedlings to have their class picture taken.

After the peat pots are filled, they are taken to a table with seeds and water. Each student counts our enough seeds to plant one in each corner and one in the middle. That's five. But even after working with the kids for several years, it still amazes me that almost all the kids can figure out that one in each corner and one in the middle equals five.

The Kindergartners in MaryJane Zamboni's class in Brownville Jct. appear to be a lot more interested in their class picture than in the trays of 1 & 2 year old seedlings on the table.

However, when the get ready to go to work, they're all business. After the peat pots are filled, the kids go to the working table and count out the five seeds and place them in the peat pots full of potting soil.	Next, the seeds are thoroughly moistened with the spray bottle of water.	The last step in the tree seed planting process is to carefully place the pot in a second tray.

From then on, the student loses track of which pot he or she planted and the class ends up with a tray of planted pots. Often the kids resist giving up their pot of seeds, but when it is explained, that lots of seedlings, even trees several years old die each year, they would not be very happy if it was their tree that died. If the class has lots of trees, the class will also have quite a few trees to harvest when they are in High School.

In LaGrange, Rebecca Brown combines the Kindergartners with the First Graders. Here the kids gather around the table for a class picture and to study the trays of 1 & 2 year old seedlings.

First, fill the peat pots.	Next, select 5 seeds to plant in the peat pot.	And last, thoroughly wet the seeds and place to pot in a second tray.

               

FIRST GRADE

Nancy Barden's class of First Graders get together for their class picture.

Once the planting process starts, the First Graders really get right down to business filling peat pots ready to receive the fir tree seeds.	While most of the kids tend to planting and watering the seeds. One young man questions Mrs. Law. He probably wants to know what happens to his peat once he placed it in a tray full of identical peat pots.

Marie Hayes's class of First Graders pose for a class picture. The next step is to get down and dirty and plant fir tree seeds. Mrs. Law, in the background, doesn't seem to be working very hard.

Here, Lillian Gerrish's First Graders pose for their class picture.

First; the kids fill their peat pots.	Next, they select 5 seeds from a plateful of fir tree seeds.	And last, after placing a seed in each corner and one in the middle, they water the seeds thoroughly.

Tammy Murano's class of First Graders, from the Brownville Elementary School pose for thei class picture.r

Everyone seems very intent on the task at hand.	After planting the seeds and watering, the kids place their pot in a second tray. One young man appears to be watching to see if his seed will grow into a tree.

               

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FOURTH GRADE

               

FIFTH GRADE

               

SIXTH GRADE PLUS

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