Compost bin and Autonomy Problems.

I guess its fitting that we only have  pictures of one of the jobs being worked on today considering we also had a high level of students off task today also. Maybe its Halloween, maybe its something else but unfortunately today we didn't get a whole lot accomplished.

Our First very rainy day...

But it didn't stop Tiffany from getting the job done

and it didn't stop Kameron from starting to install our rain garden

It didn't stop Robert from putting in two posts on the raingarden fence

it didn't stop the peas \Dalante planted from sprouting

and it didn't stop Mr. Hoover from helping out

We work together, couldn't ask for nicer weather :)

We started to talk about different projects to work on over the cold winter months.
Here were some of the suggestions


Research Topics:

Harmful and Beneficial Pests

What is a Rain garden, How does it work?

How do compost/Worm Gardens Work?

Cooking Garden Vegetables (what can I make w/ my garden ?)



Drillbit boys





sweeping up the last of the woodchips

We did good puting the cornstalks on the front of the school

Taking corn to decorate the school 

Frustrating Day

We had a couple frustrations today.

First: Drilling and Assembling the compost bin was very difficult. The drill kept falling out of the chuck.

Second: We had a very hard time finding numbers to get free wood chips donated.

Third: Mr. Iverson was annoyed because some of us didn't step up and take a job and roamed around instead of working.

Frankie working solo on the rain garden open fence.

a picture of the drill bits we were using.
we drilled a hole through each 4 x 4 post and then put re-bar through them to keep them together

Spencer and Mr. Iverson are assembling the cedar 4 x 4's.
Watch out for splinters!

Mikey, Mateo, Patrick, Herrera and Cody started working their
way around school doing the landscaping our groundskeepers
seem to miss each year.

Workin our Butts off!

Ethan Wheelbarrowing the last of the woodchips, I guess we need to call for more donations

Transplanting as many strawberries as we can before the fall frost

"Seeds no weeds" is Dalante's motto.

Andrew and Javier worked their butts off cleaning up a neglected area on the side of the school. They also collected leaves for the compost bin!

Strawberry fields forever (or until we run out of transplants)



Jaiden digging a hole for a fence post.




Patrick, mateo, mikey, aurora tranplanting strawberrys from Ms. sheridans garden






talon moving corn to the compost bin to cut off the ends for decoration.

Self Assessment of Garden Work.



The problem with recycled cedar posts is that they have so many old staples and nails

 Today we self assessed ourselves on how we are doing in the class. We looked at the following criteria:

Jobs Completed
Jobs In Progress
Quality of Work
Teamwork
Effort
Safety
Autonomy

Mackenna and Miriam cleaned out the garden work room...still work to do!

Pounding the recycled post ends in with a sledgehammer helped stick them into the clay

Micheal adding one of the last posts to the 8'x8' bed. So close!

getting stuff done on 80's day :)

last of our wonderful squash!

soon enough we will have our compost bin

the end of wood chips



we need our fence!

beautiful sunny day and Dalante planted new seeds peas carrots and spinach. thats it for the day.

Making the Most of our Cedar Posts

We recycled the ends of the cedar posts to create a accessible barrier for the rain garden

Jaiden flexing his muscles moving a 4" x 4" cedar post

The second cedar post compost bin in progress. This one will be 8' x 8'

Lincoln Log House Compost Bin

Jeremiah rescueing some onions from an older garden

Here is a picture of our compost bin in the works

Today We Still are finishing our lincoln log house style compost bins. They are recycled cedar posts

This is a picture of the wood getting sawed by daniel

Prepping Winter



Javier Spreading Wood Chips on soggy areas

  

 Mrs. Dean-Wright, Jeremiah and Amaya Picking Up Corn that no longer was producing



Tiffany Vu Measuring A Piece Of Wood for our compost bin!

Today we made cucumber salad again but with different chefs.

The first time we didn't add salt and today we did. Daniel said "It has a wierd taste."

The compost bin is going to be finished soon, pictures to come!

compost bin in progress



Mateo Goofing off after pulling up old corn




Herrera loading up some debri



Mackenna, Miriam cutting up some zuchini for Cucumber salad



Yesenia stirring up the final product...YUM!



Talon, Jaiden, and Spencer taking turns cutting lumber to size for the new compost





Planting Winter Gardens, Sawing Posts, Cucumber Cutters,

Amaya is on Fiya!

We took 6 loads of wood chips today to the whet spots.

We harvested some corn, pumpkins, lettuce, squash, and beets, and jalepenos.

We cut three boards down to length for the compost bins, Daniel's arms are sore!

We planted one bed with carrots, two kinds of peas...and that's all.

Russell the Muscle

Seeds no weeds

Daniel's got a handle...on the...handle of the saw