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"Lettuce" Learn - Gardening Goes Global
Waxhaw Elementary hosted its first “Garden Club” during this school year. The club, which was open to third grade students, met after school on Tuesdays. Master Gardeners Jason and Tanya Loseke skillyfully guided the club members in learning how to weed, mulch, plant and harvest. Their leadership was inspirational.
As part of the third grade science curriculum, some of the classes began growing plants from seeds inside. As the weather warmed up, the Garden Club members transplanted the seedlings into raised beds in the Learning garden area. They had fun comparing worm lengths as they transplanted… the classes had also contributed their “vermicomposting” creatures to our raised beds!
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Natural History Comes Alive at the Schiele Museum
First grade students recently enjoyed a field trip to the Schiele Museum in Gastonia on Monday, April 30. The trip began with a ten minute wait at the famous Waxhaw train tracks, counting the train cars going by!
Once we arrived at the museum, we enjoyed seeing the huge dinosaur bones as you first enter the building. We walked around it, wondering what it might have looked like with its skin on.
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