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Goals for the garden

by u4056 | May 3, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

This year we had a lack of monarchs in our garden; all of the monarchs we have raised so far have been from a teacher’s home garden. Unfortunately, we didn’t have very much milkweed when we were raising caterpillars; we think that’s why we didn’t have very many...

Seven-sons tree

by u4056 | March 1, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

The Vierthaler's, master gardeners that have helped us with our project, explained why we might not have butterflies and told us we might want more pollinator plants around the school . One of the plants they recommended was the Seven-Son Tree. It will be a really...

maypops

by u4056 | December 14, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

The one on the left is the maypop fruit/seed the maypop fruit/seed are from our garden and on the right is the maypop flowers which were in Mrs.Stava's butterfly garden What are maypops? Maypops are a type of passion fruit. They are edible and smell very sweet. They...

look what we found!

by | May 10, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

These are newly laid butterfly eggs, too be specific these are variegated fritillary butterfly eggs. They can lay their eggs on violets, passion vines, and pansies. They are a statewide butterfly that fly multiple flights through April - November. (Ps, its the little...

New plants!

by | May 3, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

We have ordered new plants and wood chips for our garden. We are very excited with all of this and think it is a very good achievement for this year. Looking forward to it. Thank you to Mr. Wendorff and Ms. McMullen for the donation to our project.

We’re almost there!

by | March 2, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

We have almost raised enough money to buy our rain barrel. This was one of our goals for this year and we are on our way to achieve it. We could not have done this without our parents and teachers helping us this year.

What Are We Saving For?

by | March 2, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

We have made $167 with the snack cart. It has got us $429.75 in total. We are saving for $650, plus the plants we have to replace this year. We will use the money for a rain barrel. It will help the garden by collecting rain. We will earn the money we need by doing...

Fundraisers

by | February 8, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

"What are we doing with our funds" you might ask? We are getting a rain barrel to collect rain to water our garden. We need about $650 and the city of Shawnee doesn't want sediment, contaminants, litter, nutrients, and other pollutants going into the water system....

About Stem

by | February 1, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Stem is a activity for us, the students, to help our environment and the area around us, in the best possible way. In stem the habitat group improves the environment. The website group edits the website. The education group educates the school about the butterflies....

Snack Cart Time!

by | February 1, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

We went around with the snack cart today, we worked really hard to make the cart. We will see what happens with it. We will be doing it again on these days: 2/2 and 2/8 I hope everyone enjoyed the cart for the first day. Today is the 2nd day we will come around with...