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Grades TK/K,1/2/3 Living, Breathing, & Learning Outdoors
March 28 @ 9:40 am - 10:10 am
Oasis Elementary…Living, Breathing, and Learning Outdoors
PREFACE: Reviving the school’s oasis was a goal that was developed by school staff and parents during the initial meetings of the grant application process. That goal will develop over the 3-year period of the grant ending in Spring 2026. It will be a work in progress with the hope of creating a nice outdoor space where classrooms can visit for outdoor learning.
Throughout this current school year all students have contributed to revival of the school’s oasis that has been neglected for several years. Students studied pollinators, native plants and their adaptations, decomposers, the role of pollinators, and how we attract this pollinators to our oasis. And even district maintenance is eager to help. To date they have been working on getting the irrigation working.
Objective:
In this last session of the year, students will now experience Living, Breathing, and Learning Outdoors. Students will review the work they have done throughout the year including the ladybugs and butterflies that were hatched and released, planting of native seeds nurturing them in the classroom under grow lights, planting of some of those seedlings and more mature native plants, making red worm compost to nourish the soil, and more recently some classrooms will have praying mantis to release into the oasis. A visit to the oasis will reveal the fruits of their efforts with evidence that their oasis is alive and beginning to thrive. Students will be asked what they see/hear/smell, what they observe that is different from their first visit to the oasis last fall, what they think has made this difference, and what needs to happen to nurture their oasis into the future. Finally, students will get their classroom sit pads and clipboards. We will give them a brief assignment such as drawing, poetry or worksheets to do while out at the oasis. The classrooms will keep their bins of sit pads and clipboards to encourage teachers to take students out to oasis for occasional lessons as weather permits.
The legacy will be their care and understanding of how land use impacts the interdependency of all living things on Earth. The ultimate goal is inspiring lifelong stewards of the earth through activities, experiences, and sharing with others in the community.
Where: The JTREE team will meet students in the quad.
Materials/Supplies: Each classroom will be provided a tub of sit-pads and clipboards to be used for outdoor education in their oasis. All materials are provided by JTREE.
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