Garden volunteer program announced ...

The Growing Garden

Greetings PES family -

We are pleased to announce that initial construction phase of the Memory Garden is complete! Each grade is now responsible for an garden area based on their specific state standards. Now it is time to move forward and use this exciting new space and we need your help!

Earth Explorers is a volunteer-run program to enable students to use the Garden as a classroom space. Environmentally based education has been shown to produce gains for students in science, social studies, language arts and mathematics. By engaging in hands-on investigations of the natural world students develop skills in problem solving, critical thinking and analysis. By connecting children to the natural world and real world activities, they improve in self-esteem and self-confidence. We want this for our children!

Can you help us with any of the following?

Earth Guardians : volunteers who support the physical development and growth of the garden. Green fingers are not a requirement! While students will be actively engaged in planting and growing in the garden, volunteers support this process. This is particularly true during the summer months when crops and produce planted in the spring will become a valuable teaching tool at the beginning of the school year. We hope to have two Earth Guardians for each grade. Volunteers attend a one hour orientation session. Volunteer service can take place outside school hours.

Earth Guides : volunteers who help provide outdoor education to our students through active engagement in well designed, nationally recognized curriculum. Earth Guides do not need any specialized knowledge or skills. Only curiosity, an appreciation for the natural world, and a desire to help children learn. Our initial goal is to meet with all students once a season for an hour long on-site field trip. Volunteers attend a two hour training session at the beginning of the school year, or beginning of the calendar new year. Volunteers need to be available during school hours.

Earth Angels provide in-kind and monetary donations to the Garden We are very lucky to have an excellent start to our garden. Family, friends, community businesses, and local granting agencies have provided substantial suppor to get us to this point. However, there are some items that would enhance the garden's potential for education, but which lie outside the school budget.

Volunteer Sign Up Sheet

Please sign and return to your child's teacher.

• Name:

• Phone:

• Email:

Call or email Sue for more information: 646-9973 / carowatts@gmail.com

• Earth Guardian - I am available- days & times

• Earth Guide - I am interested in being a guide for grade (s) :

• Please check one or more

5K – Sensory Garden Sensory Walks	2nd – Butterfly Garden Habitats: Monarch Watch	4th– Columbian Exchange Social Studies Programs
1st – Rainbow Garden Seasonal planting and growing activities.	3rd– Carolina Fence Grdn Habitat: Cornell Feeder Watch.	5th Grade – Aquatic Life Project Wild - Aquatic
6th Grade -Circle Grdn Project Wild.

• EarthAngel

I would like to donate

I would like to purchase

Magnifying lens (25) - $30.00	Bird Bath $25 each	Seeds
Clipboards (25) - $125 Sit-upons – (25) - $125	Bird Feeders $15 each	Plants – Please think of us when you divide your perennials this winter.
Bug box (10) - $20	Bird House $15 each	Small trees/shrubs
Butterfly nets (5) - $75	Bird seed $10	General fund - maintenance
Binoculars (6) - $120

We are also looking for sections of trees to be used as seating and as teaching tools. If you have recently felled a tree, please think of us.

This is only a partial list and prices are approximate.