Critter Apartments

What are those posts out by the playground garden for? These will be apartment complexes for mason and carpenter bees. The great thing about these types bees are that they are better polinators than honey bees, are solitary in nature and do not have any honey or a hive to protect - so they are not agressive and rarely if ever use their stinger. They will use the tubes of the attached house to lay their eggs and food for their young and the students will be able to observe their life cycle.

iCare Community Project

The Low Down: This project came to us at the last minute and with a considerable donation of time and money from the folks at iCare. They completely weeded the playground area, built planter boxes for the sunflowers and started a retaining wall for a future garden. About 35 volunteers showed up for almost 6 hours to donate their time. And iCare donated materials worth over $2,000.

Here are some pictures of the day.
And here are the big trucks. 

Cherry Blossom Project in Bloom

2012 is the 100th anniversary of the gift of 3,000 trees from the Japanese governemnt to the United States. The students, teachers and parents at Korematsu Elementary, inspired by their school's namesake and his Japanese heritage, have planted 12 Japanese flowering cherry trees along the East side of the school's library. Check out the project and the photos here

Art Around Campus

A new page has been added that has galleries of all the sixth grade Korematsu Elementary legacy art projects and some of the classroom art projects with a green theme. You can find them here. Take a look and tell us what you think?!

Welcome Back!

All the plants missed you very much! Please take a look around and check out the site and the garden at school. We have some great plans to spruce up the campus a bit this year and work in some educational and fun learning experiences for the students at the same time. If you have any suggestions, please drop us a line on the CONTACT page.

Thank you!