Fall 2023 - Week Seven

October 27, 2023  •  Vol. 7

This week we continued to work on taking care of our adopted trees.

On Monday we discussed how children played a central role in the creation of the 6BC community garden that we visited on Friday, and I showed them before and after pictures as well as pictures of children helping to make it the beautiful space it is today. We thought about how the work we are doing with our trees is similar. We then visited our oak and elm trees on 3rd street, before painting signs for our trees with messages like: No Trash Please, We Love Our Trees, and Kids Garden Here. Be on the lookout for these signs in the coming week! We also painted some pumpkins.

On Tuesday, the brooms were the popular work station in the garden once again and the children “flew” around the garden before watering and mulching our trees. I am so proud of their hard work with the trees and can see an improvement in their condition just over these past few weeks.

On Wednesday, we read the book “Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea” to revisit the idea of children renovating public spaces for the better. We talked about how tree wells should not be treated like trash cans and how valuable their work with the trees is. It has been so lovely to see them connecting with their trees: hugging, rubbing mud on the bark, and showing their tree off to family and friends.