Ten Days of Little Celebrations - May 2016
/May was the height of the spring school field trip season and three was something to celebrate about all of them –
Being remembered by a 2nd grader as his hike leader from last fall (and the hike that followed),
The 5th graders on the first Bioblitz day finding a toad near the pool in a formal garden – on their sunny day,
The 5th graders on the second Bioblitz day documenting beetles and trees and slugs and flowers – in the rain making the most of their teams of two or three: one holding the umbrella and the other entering the data into iNaturalist…..and then having their picnic brown bag lunch under the chandeliers in the tent that usually hosts weddings,
And the group of middle schoolers that removed a big pile of invasive plants…..before the rain started!
A wildflower talk was worth celebrating for the topic and the ‘new to me’ tidbits sprinkled through the lecture.
I am celebrating a good start to my project to digitize our slides. There are some hidden treasures there!
Another project – cleaning out stuff – is also proceeding well. In this early phase, one of the measurements is how much (paper) is going in the recycle directly or being shredded (and then recycled.