Mrs. Melaney's Class Plants a "Sight to See" Garden

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1) Sixth grade students are planting flowers outside the sixth grade hallway. Evan, Kate and Latoya are digging up the weeds.
garden2.jpg (31667 bytes)2) Evan and JT are making the garden beautiful by planting flowers.
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3) Students are waiting for Bridgette to dig a hole. 4) Neema is on hands and knees mixing sand and the soil with shovels to beautify our school walkway. 
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5.) Chauncey pours mulch while Brent smooths it out. 6) This is the garden before the soil. The class is standing back to see their progress and to see what they will do next.
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7) Kate is pouring her bag of mulch out over the soil and sand mixture.  8) Haddy and fellow students help to spread the mulch.
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9) Mixing and spreading the soil. 10) Everyone digs to freshen up the garden. 
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11) Kids start their playtime in the dirt! 12) Neema works to get the flower out of its plastic holder without breaking the flower.
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13) Students select a package of flowers to plant. 14) Students begin planting their beautiful flowers. 
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15) Students are adding the finishing touches on their flowers.  16) Students add more mulch.  
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17) Kendall is thinking very hard about this garden. 18) Mulch gives protection to the newly planted flowers. 
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19) Bridgette looks around to make sure no one passing by steps in their lovely garden.  20) The shrubs in the garden look great. 
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21) Mrs. Melaney's 6th grade class admires their work and enjoys the hard work and participation in their garden. 22)  Here is the garden a few weeks later.