Kids and Trees

Growing Together

MILO, SAD #41 2003-2004
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Here, SAD 41 idnetifies itself as the Kindergarten, 2004. These little guys and gals have only been going to school a few months. When one stops and thinks of that, they do extremely well to follow directions as a group at all. They are great little people.



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Here, the children from the Brownville area of SAD 41 pose just a minute before before getting their hands just a little bit dirty, planting seeds.





The photographer was not too smart. When he asked the kids from the LaGrange area, to sit in a semi circle, so he could take a picture, it never occurred to him that the circle would be so large as not being able to get all in one pciture.





Here is the second half of the semi circle of LaGrange Kindergarten children.





The directions for planting was go to station one, pick up a peat pot. Go to station two, fill the pot with potting soil and tamp it down with a small block of wood. Go to station three pick up four seeds, place them in the pot and tamp the seeds firmly into the soil. Continuing at station three, after the seeds have been tamped by little fingers, they had to grasp a spray bottle and wet the seeds down. Finally, go to station four and place the finished product into a second tray. That's a lot of directions for a child only in school for a few months. But they did very well. All the children did the same thing, the planting group here was from the Milo Elementary School.





Here, Mrs. Law gets down and dirty with four of the kids from the primary school in Brownville.





This photograph shows almost every peat pot has at least one, sometimes as many four, little baby trees growing. Some are hard to see because they have just started growing and are still brown colored. A few days later, the tops of the little tree turns green and trys to shed its hull or seed cover. After a few more days, the hull is completely shed and four little needles spread out. The light brown material on top of the potting soil is vermiculite. A little vermiculite as added to keep the pot from drying out as quickly as it would without the vermiculite.



THIRD GRADE

Debbie Page's Third Grade class from the Brownville Elementary School visited the Tree Farm in Dover-Foxcroft on May 19. The Kids evidently had a real enjoyable field trip because a few days later they all wrote THANK YOU letters to the Laws. Here are the responses to those letters.

To Krishanna: We are glad you enjoyed your visit to the tree farm and especially liked the beaver dam. Next year, we will try to have a trail to another part of the pond where you can see the beaver house.

To Jason: We are glad you consider us your friend. The Natural Resource Education Center is also glad to let you plant your trees on its land.

To Sarah: You wrote a real nice letter and drew a real nice transplant bed where you planted your little tree. We enjoyed giving you the tour of the tree farm. Glad you learned the beaver dam is not where the beaver live. Next year we hope to be able to show the beaver house where the beaver live. It will be quite a while before the trees are huge. You will be a big girl then.

To Rachel:You are a very pretty writer. All the capital letters, the tall letters and the short letters were exactly the size they are supposed to be. We are glad you liked the beaver dam and I enjoyed showing it to you.

To Evan: I like to show people the trees beaver can cut down. They do a real good job. I'm glad you liked our house and liked planting the seedling trees. I even liked your P. S. That means "Post script" and comes after your letter. But you knew that because you used the P. S. correctly. Good for you.

To Louie:We are glad you enjoyed the walking tour. It was fun. Glad you liked planting the trees too.

To Mindy: We enjoyed showing you how to plant trees and showing you the beaver dam. You drew a real good picture of the transplant bed and was that you, kneeling down planting the seedling? We like having you as our friend too.

To Matthew: We are really pleased you learned a lot. That is what field trips are for. There is a lot to learn in the world today.

To Hayley: Mrs. Law and I are both glad you liked what we have done. I think the picture you drew with the blue sky and all those clouds was real cool too.

To Jordan: We are glad you enjoyed the beaver dam. You are welcome to come anytime and visit. I really liked the picture you drew of the cemetery with my fathers gravestone.

To Jessica: You are welcome for the tour of the farm and we are glad you like to plant trees. The picture you drew of the farm was real nice with lots of color. Thanks.

To Coltin Durant: We are glad you liked to tour the farm and graveyard. We are also pleased you like to plant trees on our property. It was a nice picture of me, my wife, you and the little bee.

And finally to Gabby: It took me a long time to figure out you were using your nick-name instead of your given name. You wrote a real nice letter. We are glad you liked the tour, that you learned a lot about plants and seeds and pleased you liked our house. Come and visit us anytime.






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