or at least her Elementary School before she leaves it for Junior High next year. Yesterday, Jaden, acting as Student Council Representative as well as newly appointed Head of Garden Committee, and two other SC members (Claire and Josselyn), got a couple minutes to speak to the student body during morning assembly. Wearing green shirts in recognition of Earth Day, Jaden was first to speak. She told the students about her idea to create a school garden. Her idea came during one of her brother's flag football games at another elementary school nearby. After walking the grounds she came upon the school's garden and thought to herself, "Well, why shouldn't we have a school garden too?" Taking initiative Jaden began presenting her idea at the Student Council meetings she attends after school on Tuesday's. Once the idea passed SC she had to get permission from the Principal, who allowed for her committee to purchase and plant flowers at the entrance of the school. When school lets out they will be moved to a designated garden area in the back of the school to be watered by sprinklers. (Originally, Jaden offered to water them in these pots all summer long until her mother shot that down. Unless, of course, she wants to ride her bike to the school once a day.) I ran these 3 girls after school one day this week to purchase the flowers. It took us nearly 2 hours. They all had such great ideas and were so enthusiastic about the project. The next day I learned that the 3 of them planted every last flower without an adult around. I guess I was under the impression that classes were to help out from each grade and that it would be supervised by an adult. Props to these girls! Jaden's hands were black when I picked her up after school.
Jaden told me that the girls decided to end their speech with this motivating line, "We need to be kind to our Earth so that our Earth will be kind to us!" And since the kids are out of school for Good Friday we will make our way over to see the new Disney Nature show, African Cats, this afternoon. We love our Earth. We do our best to reduce, reuse and recycle around here and hope we can make the world a better, more beautiful place one small step at a time. We are proud of you, Jaden. Happy Earth day all you inhabitants of beautiful Earth!
Above: Before school started we snapped this shot of Claire, Jaden and Josselyn to give you an idea of the before and after. Claire and Josselyn weren't around for the "after" shots because we took them at about 7:00 p.m. on our way home from dance. Not pictured are 4 other big pots closer to the front doors of the school that they also filled.
I had to take this pic of Jaden fussing over the plants when we stopped by to take the "after" shots.
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