On Friday, Ms. Benasaraf hosted the district’s first “Pick Your Own” Farmers Market at 396K @ 181.
“I wanted to share some pictures from our farmer’s market that took place during today’s gallery walk! Students and parents who visited the room had opportunities to pick tomatoes, herbs, and lettuce directly off our towers to taste and to bring home in provided bags!”
Teachers at the Math in the Garden PD investigated tree pits and a local playground for patterns, shapes, and measurement. They found math all around us!
754X J.M. Rapport School in the Bronx is the first D75 school to open an FFA chapter in NYC! Mr. Masefields’s students run a small farm with hydroponics, aquaponics, chickens, tilapia shrimp, and an outdoor garden, and they visit local farms and botanical gardens each month.
Ms. Macaluso’s students at 255Q are putting their tower garden to work! Check out this photo they shared of their latest crop.
177Q submitted their curriculum, aptly named “The Right Stuff,” to the Grow NY competition. They shared their experience of traveling to Ithaca overnight to present their work:
“Class Y24 of P 177Q developed a curriculum that would help farmers and the agricultural community to keep and hire young adults with disabilities. Out of 30 teams in NY state, we placed in the top eight. Â Plus we were the only NYC public school invited to compete in Ithaca and the only students with disabilities to present. Â We made an infomercial and spoke for 5 minutes both verbally and using our ACC devices. Â It was like shark tank for students.”
396K celebrated the opening of their new STEM lab at the 181 site with a ribbon cutting, speeches and a student-led tour. The new space is home to a hamster, a tortoise, fish and some seedlings that were newly planted. Great work, everyone!
The students in Mr. Tyler’s class at 77K started a school farm stand that is so popular they can barely keep up with demand! This means that the students have to keep planting so that there are always more fresh greens for the community. Here they are on a recent Monday planting more seeds and taking care of their classroom grow towers.
Horticulture students at 811Q have been busy starting their seeds and getting the tower gardens up and running. Mr. Dean and the students hope you enjoy their new aeroponics webpage with crop info and pictures of the students hard at work. Great job, 811Q!
Who knew there are kiwis growing in Brooklyn?! See if you can spot them in the photo…
Teachers from this year’s Garden Partnership Program kicked off the year with professional learning sessions at their respective gardens. Check out some photos of learning in action at NYBG (below) and BBG (in the post above) all about this year’s theme, Plants We Eat.
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