June 27

These radishes are our first pick of the crop in our community garden!! Super exciting!! 

June 2

Mr. Daher and Mr. Armstrong’s Grade 4 classes planting potatoes in the school garden! We can’t wait to harvest our crops and share the food! Students had fun digging, measuring, and collaborating while following procedural instructions on how to properly plant and take care of red potatoes!

Friday June 3rd, 2016

Tomotosphere - Grade 3 Inquiry

Today all 5 Grade Three classes got together to plant our Tomatosphere plants in the St. Cecilia garden.  The students were so excited to prep the gardens, plant and water.

We decided to plant the larger, stronger plants first and wait until our tiny seedlings become a bit stronger.  The Grade Three Students are looking forward to continue their observations over the next few weeks and see how our plants grow and change now that they have more room to grow!

  

May 31

Mme Nathalie JKSK5 and Mrs. Smith’s Grade 1 Class

We have a great gardening block this week. We decided to plant cucumbers and snow peas in our garden bed. All the students helped by getting our soil ready. It was super dry. All students watered a section. Then they had a chance to plant a seed in the garden. The students also noticed that there were weeds growing around so we spend some time taking the weeds out of our bed and around the beds as well. Here are some pictures of the day:

May

Tomatosphere - Grade 3 Adventure!

The Grade 3 classes are participating in a garden project that is super exciting, called Tomatosphere. They have received “special” seeds that have 2 packs. One package contains seeds that have been sent into space and the other package contains the “control” group, which have not been in space. The grade 3 students will learn how to conduct a scientific experiment and compare the germination rates of the two groups of seeds. This inquiry will help the children learn what plants need to survive and also help astronauts understand some of the issues related to long-term space travel. “It is an out-of –this-world opportunity for the Grade 3 students!! We wish you luck with the tomatoes. We can’t wait to see how they progress.

May 26, 2016

Yesterday, Mme Gauthier’s JKSK class and Mme Nicoletti 4B’s class partnered together to plant some lettuce (la laitue), kale (le chou) and spinach (les épinards).  The Grade 4s helped to pull all the weeds that had popped up since the volunteers prepared all the beds. They now understand what the expression, “growing like a weed” means!

The grade 4s learned that there is important  information on the seed packets, such as the spacing of the seeds during planting and the  the appropriate depth to plant the seeds.  They made many connections to our Science unit on Habitats and Communities, about a living organism needing enough space to survive!

The Gr 4 leaders were grouped with the JKSKs and once the beds were ready, they planted the seeds.

The JKSKs got right in there and dug into the dirt to plant their seeds.  The Grade 4s watered the seeds after planting and a group of students returned to water them again today with Mme Nicoletti and Mr. Collen.

Thank you parents for the wonderful tools we received to assist us in our planting! We can’t wait to see our plants grow!

     

Our 2016 Spring Clean Up

On Saturday, May 14, 2016, we got started! A big thank you to our Parent Lead Volunteer, Brandy McDevitt!  She organized a great, successful morning! 

First, the families that joined in helped finish up the weeding and clearing out of last year's growth. 

These boys looked like they are playing but they had an important job to do! They were helping Mr. Collen by hauling the full compost bags to the other side of our school! 

Then the dump truck arrived with the soil! 

 

We also had a bit of extra soil to fill a couple of our flower beds around the school yard!

Great team work! Our beds are ready for new seeds and keen St. Cecilia students! This team also helped us divide each bed into sections!