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At Long Last ...

6/10/2018

 
​... we have entered our final ecology week!

Monday and Tuesday, June 11 and 12, 7th grades, Room 301, then 303, will travel to Montrose Point via CTA to learn about lake food chains, go fishing, and groom the shore and dunes to create artwork.  We leave at 9:00 a.m., both days, and are back by 3:00 p.m.

Wednesday, June 13 we hold the First Grade Tree Olympics, in which teams from each classroom tackle 50 tree questions about our school yard trees.  Anything above a 46/50 is considered (by me) to be a champion score. Parents wishing to peek in on this extraordinary event, are welcome to join us. 
Room 211 at 11:30 a.m.
Room 208 at 1:15 p.m., and
Room 210 at 2:15 p.m..
Good luck!

On Thursday, June 14, with the help of our Pizza Elves, we will be making pizzas with the 8th grade class,
tossing a garden salad,
and mixing up some extra-ordinary rhubarb juice, and Aronia juice.
The pizza oven will be warming all day, and activities will begin after lunch. Will they still be hungry? (answer: Yes!)
Can you help out? 
Pizza and juice reward.

My best thanks to you all, 
Mr. Leki

More Outings and Celebrations This Year

6/6/2018

 
​Dear Friends, 
Finally, with a break in the field ecology schedule, we've been able to schedule garden outings for classroom. 
Four today! Planting, lettuce tacos and silent reading. Beautiful day, beautiful kids. 
Tomorrow, Thursday, June 7, there are two more outings.
At 10:30 a.m., 4th Grade Room 204 will visit to do as above.
At 1:15 p.m.,  8th Grade, Room 211 will be out to do various other arduous  tasks:
moving compost to a new squash hill;
installing a new bench plank to replace the decrepit old one by the fire circle,
and to install one more length of split rail fencing.
Any extra supervisory help would be greatly appreciated. 


And on Friday, June 8, Field Day, – I know already saturated with requests for volunteers –
we will be treating our fantastic ( actually, fantastic and other) Recycle Captains to a pizza lunch with garden salad, fresh fruits and Waters organic lemonade (Rhubarb and Aronia). I am seeking help from 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. to set up. serve, fetch pizza, and clean up. Anyone game? These are Lil Cesar's pizzas, not Rick and Co's, but the kids will love it anyway. 

Heads up for next week:
Monday and Tuesday, June 11 and 12,
Room 301 and Room 303
respectively 
will visit Montrose Point to fish and learn about Lake  food webs.
Wednesday, June 13 is the First Grade Tree Olympics.
Thursday, June 14 is all-day – 8th grade
will have their pizza, aronia lemonade blast with the help of dear alumni parent Clayton Miller.

Days fly by ...

Mr. Leki
    Ecology Program & Calendar
    PictureMr. Pete Leki, Waters Ecology Program Founder and Director
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     Email: 
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