Fall 2023 - Week Six
October 20, 2023 • Vol. 6
Wow, what a week! This late-breaking edition of the Gazette is coming to you after our first half-day adventure to the 6BC Community Garden yesterday. But first let’s recap the week.
It was so nice to see our Monday kids after Indigenous Peoples’ Day off last week! After snack time, the children were newly interested in the sweeping station and had fun pretending to be witches on their brooms. We focused on one of the Callery Pears on 3rd street that needed lots of love and returned to work on a weaving craft with sticks that we call spider webs.
On Tuesday, we ventured over to 4th street and tended the trees there, many of which needed lots of water. The children did a wonderful job carrying their buckets and tools over to the trees.
On Wednesday, we visited 4th street again and worked in our nature journals. Trees were hugged, watered and weeded, and we found a very large grub which was exciting. Afterwards we worked on our spider webs again.
On Friday, we ate our snacks and talked about the historic East Village Community Garden movement in the 70s and 80s and connected it to the work that we are doing in our tree wells. We did our first big adventure to the 6BC Community Garden. Many thanks to Magdelena Mercier and Kristen Showty for chaperoning and coordinating our access to the garden. The kids needed no help appreciating the wonder and delight of this magical space and got right to work exploring and drawing in their nature journals. When we returned we made our way to Room 207 and worked on painting signs for our adopted trees.
