The Gardening Club

So the gardening club is underway! We have been meeting every Friday afternoon from 2:40pm until 4:40pm. The mission of the club is to learn about global stewardship. Thus far, 20 students from grades 4 and 5 have joined the club. We have been joined by graduate students from Columbia University. These grad students are engaging our students with hands-on, inquiry based science experiments for the first hour of the program. After the first hour, our club applies what we have learned to the garden at The Bloomingdale School. So far, we have learned that we can create electricity from citrus fruit, and that buying locally gown foods can help us protect the environment. Therefore we have begun to plant the seeds of citrus fruits, and are thinking of ways to grow foods so that we can save energy and reduce pollution. It seems that all of the students in the gardening club are enjoying themselves as well as learning important information about how to better care for our planet. I'm thinking of having the club expand their service detail to include a recycling program that we could implement at PS 145M.