Everett Environmental Club 2013: Signs of Spring
Week 1: Buds & Bulbs
Cora: Crocus can be purple, yellow and white. The quaking aspen have lots of catkins. You can see the strawberry leaves [in the environmental bed]. Dead marigolds are full of seeds. Blue spruce – when leaves [needles] are new, they’re blue.
Jamyra: I see 7 different kinds of leaves and there is going to be a daffodil. We also found a tulip. There are strawberries in the enviro club bed that I can’t wait to eat. The marigolds are dead from last year. We saw a dawn redwood tree, the bark peels by itself. [Dawn redwoods] have been here since the dinosaurs. We have a red maple tree.
Cora: Crocus can be purple, yellow and white. The quaking aspen have lots of catkins. You can see the strawberry leaves [in the environmental bed]. Dead marigolds are full of seeds. Blue spruce – when leaves [needles] are new, they’re blue.
Jamyra: I see 7 different kinds of leaves and there is going to be a daffodil. We also found a tulip. There are strawberries in the enviro club bed that I can’t wait to eat. The marigolds are dead from last year. We saw a dawn redwood tree, the bark peels by itself. [Dawn redwoods] have been here since the dinosaurs. We have a red maple tree.
Week 2: Sprouts and Flowers
Mary: The mung bean sprouts are good and taste like they have water in them. I have had them in rice at a Chinese restaurant. We are going to plant potatoes and pansies, they like the cold weather.
Grace: We put the pansy in a big pot … we had to open the dirt to let the roots out so the plant can grow.
Kali: Every day I notice that everything is growing and they’re colorful. The colors are pink, purple, green, white, light green and light purple.
Mary: The mung bean sprouts are good and taste like they have water in them. I have had them in rice at a Chinese restaurant. We are going to plant potatoes and pansies, they like the cold weather.
Grace: We put the pansy in a big pot … we had to open the dirt to let the roots out so the plant can grow.
Kali: Every day I notice that everything is growing and they’re colorful. The colors are pink, purple, green, white, light green and light purple.
Week 3: Seeds and Flowers
Grace: Perennial – something that you don’t have to plant again. Annual – [plant] yearly. We just ate a carrot. It was delicious!
Kali: Hyacinth is perennial. The tulip is reddish, orangish, and yellow and brown and it does smell and it is called an emperor tulip. Dandelions do smell and they’re yellow.
Grace: Perennial – something that you don’t have to plant again. Annual – [plant] yearly. We just ate a carrot. It was delicious!
Kali: Hyacinth is perennial. The tulip is reddish, orangish, and yellow and brown and it does smell and it is called an emperor tulip. Dandelions do smell and they’re yellow.
Week 4: Field Trip to the top of Savin Hill
Mary : We think we found a rock where Native Americans were. We pet a dog, we climbed rocks.
Grace: We found a sign that said beware of coyotes. We saw the whole city.
Cora: We walked to the Savin Hill. ... I think this place is cool. We saw the Savin tree and my house.
Jamyra: We saw metal rings attached to the rocks, maybe they’re for boats. The sun makes the rocks hot.
Mary : We think we found a rock where Native Americans were. We pet a dog, we climbed rocks.
Grace: We found a sign that said beware of coyotes. We saw the whole city.
Cora: We walked to the Savin Hill. ... I think this place is cool. We saw the Savin tree and my house.
Jamyra: We saw metal rings attached to the rocks, maybe they’re for boats. The sun makes the rocks hot.
Week 5: Trees and sticks - dead or alive
Mary : We saw a cherry blossom tree, dogwood, and some purple tulips, also nettle, red and orange tulips, (and) viburnum.
Tina: Dogwoods have tiny flowers that look like broccoli. Cherry blossoms are pink and they are beautiful. Bottle brush plant [have] white [flowers]. They look like a brush.
Kali: I see oakleaf hydrangea – [the leaves] look furry. Viburnum has lots of flowers.
Jamyra: We pulled out maple trees [in the outdoor classroom].
Mary : We saw a cherry blossom tree, dogwood, and some purple tulips, also nettle, red and orange tulips, (and) viburnum.
Tina: Dogwoods have tiny flowers that look like broccoli. Cherry blossoms are pink and they are beautiful. Bottle brush plant [have] white [flowers]. They look like a brush.
Kali: I see oakleaf hydrangea – [the leaves] look furry. Viburnum has lots of flowers.
Jamyra: We pulled out maple trees [in the outdoor classroom].
Week 6: Planting & pulling
Mary : We are going to plant sunflowers. We will pull maple and horse chestnut trees … and burdock. We ate some violet petals. They were good.
Grace: Violet [petals] are edible and they are delicious.
Cora: We were planting sunflowers today [in the strawberry bed].
Mary : We are going to plant sunflowers. We will pull maple and horse chestnut trees … and burdock. We ate some violet petals. They were good.
Grace: Violet [petals] are edible and they are delicious.
Cora: We were planting sunflowers today [in the strawberry bed].
Week 7- Art in nature
Tina: We made art using leaves only. I made head wear today.
Kali: I learned Andy Goldsworthy makes painting and drawings without glue or scissors. He just uses water to stick it. We used plants to wrap around a stem.
Jamyra: He put leaves on sticks with water. And we did it too.
Mary : We saw pictures made of nature by Andy Goldsworthy. I made a stick creation with flowers, a stick and leaves, I will take it home.
Grace: … Andy Goldsworthy uses nature stuff to make collages. Today we made things out of flowers and weeds. I made a bracelet for my sister …
Cora: A new lady came in with Ms. Zipp. She is an artist [(Sue Denniston)]. She knows the artist [(Goldsworthy)] that does art with nature. He sticks things with water. She is showing us a book of the creations he made. I made a bunch of stuff.
Tina: We made art using leaves only. I made head wear today.
Kali: I learned Andy Goldsworthy makes painting and drawings without glue or scissors. He just uses water to stick it. We used plants to wrap around a stem.
Jamyra: He put leaves on sticks with water. And we did it too.
Mary : We saw pictures made of nature by Andy Goldsworthy. I made a stick creation with flowers, a stick and leaves, I will take it home.
Grace: … Andy Goldsworthy uses nature stuff to make collages. Today we made things out of flowers and weeds. I made a bracelet for my sister …
Cora: A new lady came in with Ms. Zipp. She is an artist [(Sue Denniston)]. She knows the artist [(Goldsworthy)] that does art with nature. He sticks things with water. She is showing us a book of the creations he made. I made a bunch of stuff.
Week 8: Working in the garden: Thinning, trimming and planting
Mary: We ate radishes that we planted earlier. We just replanted our potatoes.
Grace: We are going to be thinning radishes … we are going to be trimming a tree. We found a huge worm and a small worm.
Cora: I ate a radish. Yum, hot, spicy! I love radish. I took rolly pollies home and we found a humungous worm.
Mary: We ate radishes that we planted earlier. We just replanted our potatoes.
Grace: We are going to be thinning radishes … we are going to be trimming a tree. We found a huge worm and a small worm.
Cora: I ate a radish. Yum, hot, spicy! I love radish. I took rolly pollies home and we found a humungous worm.
Week 9: A field trip to the Blake house
Mary: The house is cool. The house was moved a little down the street. The people who used to live here had a farm of 80 acres.
Grace: They moved the house by putting logs under it, [and] then attached horses to pull the house. They built the Blake house [without nails] by cutting pieces so they can put it together like a puzzle. When they moved the house, they put in new windows.
[Outside] there are celandine … rhubarb… corn and squash. She used kelp meal [for fertilizer]. There is comfrey – you can make medicine with comfrey. There is horse radish – it makes you cry like an onion. Mugwort makes you have crazy dreams.
Cora: [The Blake house was] built in 1661. It wasn’t a city house like right now. It was farm land … the house was built with holes and pegs. It used to have gables.
[Outside], celandine kills warts. If you take a bunch of mugwort and hang it over your bed, you’ll have crazy dreams.
Kali: The Blake House was about to be destroyed but some people saved the house. The picture that we saw was different from the [current house]. There is no well or gables.
Jamyra: They had a hard time telling when the house was made … trees have rings to tell how old the tree is. There are two rocks … that said 4 miles to Boston and another said 6 miles to Boston
Mary: The house is cool. The house was moved a little down the street. The people who used to live here had a farm of 80 acres.
Grace: They moved the house by putting logs under it, [and] then attached horses to pull the house. They built the Blake house [without nails] by cutting pieces so they can put it together like a puzzle. When they moved the house, they put in new windows.
[Outside] there are celandine … rhubarb… corn and squash. She used kelp meal [for fertilizer]. There is comfrey – you can make medicine with comfrey. There is horse radish – it makes you cry like an onion. Mugwort makes you have crazy dreams.
Cora: [The Blake house was] built in 1661. It wasn’t a city house like right now. It was farm land … the house was built with holes and pegs. It used to have gables.
[Outside], celandine kills warts. If you take a bunch of mugwort and hang it over your bed, you’ll have crazy dreams.
Kali: The Blake House was about to be destroyed but some people saved the house. The picture that we saw was different from the [current house]. There is no well or gables.
Jamyra: They had a hard time telling when the house was made … trees have rings to tell how old the tree is. There are two rocks … that said 4 miles to Boston and another said 6 miles to Boston
Week 10: Rain Day: Learning about Compost - sorry no pictures :-(
Week 11: Field Trip to Malibu Beach
The girls used the sand as an opportunity to continue their work with ephemeral art
Week 11: Field Trip to Malibu Beach
The girls used the sand as an opportunity to continue their work with ephemeral art
Week 12: Make up day: Planting the 3 sisters garden
You can see from the photos below of the seeds, that we used 3 different kinds of beans, squash and corn.
In addition, in the photo at left, we planted several tomato and basil plants in the bed that already has lots of marigolds growing for good protection from pests.
You can see from the photos below of the seeds, that we used 3 different kinds of beans, squash and corn.
In addition, in the photo at left, we planted several tomato and basil plants in the bed that already has lots of marigolds growing for good protection from pests.
The members of this year's Edward Everett Elementary Environmental Club were all excellent students,taking photographs, making observations and using every opportunity to discover the nature that is all around us, even in the middle of the city.
- Ms. Zipp
- Ms. Zipp