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9/19/2009
The Plantings Go Native
Last year's Third Grade Planted Natives in our meadow Restoring native plants can sometimes be frustrating to water and watch them die. Here is a success story. Scarlet Cardinal Flower, flourishing.
{cardinal flower} Brilliant yellow Jewel Weed, Touch-Me-Not spreading
right beside poison ivy. Native Americans used it to stop the itch poison ivy causes.
{jewel weed} Look closely to see if you can see the "pollinator" on the lip of the flower. It is the multiple wildlife they bring that makes natives so marvelous. Douglas Tallamy's book, Bringing Nature Home will give you all the science behind how native plants bring wildlife.
Signs of fall include these Woodland Asters as
well as red leaves and the busy squirrels enjoying
all our nut trees. {Woodland Asters}
The Jamestown Oak is our special guest "native" to Virginia's Jamestown. Planted by both Colonial history students in the Fourth Grade and Third Grade park stewards this Oak needed
little watering to feel right at home in our park's wetland. {Jamestown Oak} Colonist used these trees for masts and homes, their first cash crop sent to England. Our little oak is now 3 feet tall.
Posted by Mary McLean at 9:00 PM
9/3/2009
We've Been Working on the Stream Bed...
IT REALLY WAS CRAZY IN JUNE!
We did some amazing work on our Parkside Habitat to help stop erosion.
Pictures coming soon! I promise. This summer Mrs. McLean was delighted to see that the jewelweed we planted last fall had not
only survived to bloom but had multiplied. SUCCESS FOR REINTRODUCTION OF
A NATIVE PLANT IN OUR MEADOW
RESTORATION!!
Posted by Mary McLean at 3:00 PM
9/3/2009
Banneker Park Stream Monitoring
COMING SOON!
Sorry! JUNE WAS CRAZY!
Posted by Mary McLean at 3:00 PM
8/17/2009
Watershed Video
Posted by Marnie Lewis at 1:00 PM
4/20/2009
Butterfly Release
Woodland workers release painted lady butterflies.
{butterfly}
Then we looked over the dry stream bed to see what
improvements were needed.
{hillside}
Posted by Mary McLean at 1:00 PM
4/13/2009
Enviroscape
Students learn about the watershed with the
enviroscape model.
{watershed}
Posted by estelle panagakos at 11:00 AM
4/3/2009
Woodland Workers
Woodland Workers Help Save the
trees in Tuckahoe Park by removing
invasive English Ivy
Here are some "Woodland Workers"
dressed as Greek Olympians
{woodland workers}
This is our favorite thing to do with invasive English
Ivy! We learned that the ivy can kill a tree. English
Ivy also keeps native plants from growing that insects, birds and
other animals could use for food. We go out into
Tuckahoe Park to learn and have fun during our recess
with our parent volunteers Hillary Horn and Lindsay
Levy.
Posted by Mary McLean at 4:50 PM
4/3/2009
Panagakos Egg hunt
Mrs. Lee made super clues for a scavanger hunt.
{egg hunt}
We went all around Tuckahoe and into the park
to find all the eggs at the answers to the riddles.
Here we are returning from getting eggs from the
sand box in Bean Sprout Corner and Peter Rabbit's
Garden.
Posted by Mary McLean at 4:25 PM
4/3/2009
Workshop on Third Grade Lessons
Ms Panagakos and Mrs. McLean
led a workshop for Arlington Public
School teachers about "Learning in the
Schoolyard". It was based on lessons
they had done with Third Graders
over the past three years.
Here Mrs. McLean in her signature hat tells the
teachers about the dry stream bed you can see
behind her. It is a simple way to control erosion.
{Dry stream bed}
Posted by Mary McLean at 4:00 PM
3/4/2009
Meadow in Snow
Our meadow has many small shrubs and
trees now- in the snow they stand out.
Two large trees are snags now. Insects already
use them for a home.
{meadow in snow}
Posted by Mary McLean at 12:50 PM
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