End of Year Reflections
The following reflections were written by the Grade 5 Green Thumb Club at their final meeting of the school year.
We were making a fertilizer. The way we make it, is that we got some comfrey leaf and water. After that, we put the cap on [the bottle] and put it outside. Then, when a couple of weeks passed, we finally opened the fertilizer and it smelled like a rotten egg!
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Me and my friend was removing the weeds from the garden so we could build our beautiful garden and plant our plants there for our school garden. The Green Thumb Club helped build our school garden because our students in that club helped Ms. Slaton and Mr. Nakatsu with building the school garden. The big tall plant that is in the picture was a big corn. The thing I liked about the corn was that it was starting to make corn on the cob.
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We were painting fish for thank you card for people that we thank. We took paper and we pressed it gently down [on the painted fish]. Our work in the Green Thumb Club helped our school community by making a garden for the future for younger grades.
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In this picture, we are all making the soil for the ‘uala (sweet potato) and we all got dirty. Our work in the Green Thumb Club has helped the school community start a garden by making pots for the younger grades, planting some of the seeds to eat at the end, and we got rid of some of the weeds. Finally, we cleaned the garden a little bit.
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This picture is of a Okinawan sweet potato plant that is still growing and as it grew we learned that to grow the potato you don’t use a seed you just use a leaf from the potato plant and plant the same way you would plant a regular seed.
This picture is of a Okinawan Sweet Potato plant. It was planted about a month ago. Soon, it will grow the sweet potatoes. They taste very good. Yum!
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In the picture, we show how the Green Thumb Club is planting seeds for the garden in their school. We were happy because we helped our garden grow and we also helped our school protect the flowers. We were making soil for seeds with coconut skin, cinder, and compost and we try to get it to the right amount water just for the plants to grow.
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In this photo, this picture is showing the before and after results of a cooked and uncooked carrot. The carrot in here are yellow, purple, and orange. The green part in the photo, (that looks similar to spinach) is the top of the carrot. The raw carrots are kept the same and wasn’t cooked. The uncooked carrots appear differently than the cooked carrots, though kind of taste same. The difference between the raw and cooked carrots are that the raw carrots are hard and they taste natural. While the cooked carrots are more soft.
In this picture, we are about to snack on cooked carrots that one of our teachers cooked for us. These are the carrots that we planted in our community garden. [Teacher Note: The carrots came from the local farmer's market, from Kahumana Farm.] Our teacher cooked these carrots while we were busy planting flowers for mother’s day. My teacher put the cooked carrots and the top of the carrots on different napkins for each of us to eat. Our work in the Green Thumb Club helped start the school community garden because, when we started our club we were the first people to start planting flowers and other plants. Then the other grades started to plant flowers. This is how our work in the Green Thumb Club help start the school community garden.
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