by Mistral Dodson | Apr 1, 2022 | Blog
The Phoenix School is creating an interactive, outdoor learning space where students will establish a pollinator garden populated with native plants! In addition, our garden will include a butterfly habitat, seed bank, and guided audio tour developed by the students and available to anyone who visits the garden.
We (parents and students) have been working hard because establishing this garden is a multiphase project. The site approval and basic landscaping have already begun with the students meeting with ….. From city Planning back in September. Since then they have been calculating the area of the plot and the garden beds, making sure the city mowers still fit between them and identifying the trees that are already there.
With active involvement from our students, their families, and surrounding community members we have created a series of hugel cultures and have begun growing many of the native plants from collected seeds.
As we come out of the winter months we are excited to see the progress we have made, with beginning buds popping through the topsoil of our hugel. As the ground warms up will start designing and planting our pollinator habitats, creating butterfly and insect homes.
Our students have been researching the plant species, of the pollinators, and attempting to create a gorgeous walk-thru and educational garden. Our Kindergarten through 8th-grade students work together to make this garden experience come to life.
This garden will be a continual site of natural science learning, hands-on education for the students as well as an open resource for the wider North Shore community. Feel free to stop by and watch the changes take place over the next few months.
by Mistral Dodson | Apr 1, 2022 | Blog
We participated in the CoolScience and their 10th Annual Art Competition on Extreme Weather.
Please join us in congratulating Karina, 5th grade is a Cool Science Runner-Up. Congratulations Karina!
Karina’s Artist Statement: “We all seek a home, a satisfaction. The birds in the trees, the worms at our feet. Somewhere we can rest, forget. But flames will devour, even not by our cause. When I think of these animals and people I wish, and many others do, we could give them this shelter they seek. Running from the thing that comforts us most, leading onto the horridly gleaming sparks. Once we can all have this shelter, we can fix the shambles we’ve left behind.”
You can learn more about the competition and CoolScience here:
https://www.facebook.com/coolsci
https://www.coolscience.net/
by Mistral Dodson | Apr 1, 2022 | Blog
We participated in the CoolScience and their 10th Annual Art Competition on Extreme Weather.
Please join us in congratulating Fiona, 4th grade, is a Cool Science Merrimack Valley Runner-Up. Congratulations Fiona!
Fiona’s Artist Statement: “There’s a build up of emotions within me while talking about this subject, sitting with me all day pouring into my hands and flooding onto the long strip of paper. Showing how I felt by doing something I’m passionate about was relieving, but knowing that my artwork could be exposed on a popular transportation made me push myself to do my best. I care about climate change and against it; so, if this gets put up on a bus it would attract people, making them feel how I feel. I need people who care about this issue, and know how it’s hurting animals and people, while feeling bad about it. My eyebrows still point down towards my nose illustrating the story behind why I’m mad. My eyes start brewing tears while seeing people hurt our own planet like this, and not doing anything about it. Empathetic people are the key to this problem. Empathetic people like me would understand what’s going on and how to spread awareness. My piece of art is showing two eyes, in the reflection there’s a green happy city with flowers, trees and windmills. In the reflection on the other side are factories, forest fires and trash, all representing climate change. If you look closely there is a tear and the eyebrow is curving up, showing that the person is worried, anxious, sad, or any other gloomy feelings, like how I feel. I made the eyes be my eyes, and I tried to show how I feel about the artwork, which is ‘unique’ and has more meaning behind it than the others.”
You can learn more about the competition and CoolScience here:
https://www.facebook.com/coolsci
https://www.coolscience.net/
