Arlington, VA
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Our Barcroft garden! Thanks to 4H-environmental club members, kinder &1st grade students and garden work day families for preparing, planting & weeding out garden space! @APSscience @BarcroftEagles @APS_Sustainable @BiBaChat @GabyRivasAPS
Barcroft YES Club members participate in a school yard clean up activity. #1 reduce waste #2 reuse items whenever possible #3 when the others aren’t possible please practice recycling @APSscience @APS_Sustainable @GabyRivasAPS @APS_ProjectYES
And more volunteers talking with the kiddos @APSscience @GabyRivasAPS @APS_Sustainable @BarcroftEagles @BarcroftLibrary @BiBaChat
4H volunteers talking about Earth Day & how to transplant seedlings from mini greenhouse jugs to raised beds (cleared on garden work day!) @APSscience @APS_Sustainable @BarcroftEagles @BiBaChat @BarcroftLibrary @GabyRivasAPS
What a lovely turnout on a beautiful Saturday for our Barcroft Garden Work Day! We tackled weeding, mulching and planting flowers and seeds. @APSscience @BarcroftEagles @BiBaChat @APS_Sustainable @GabyRivasAPS @BarcroftLibrary
New initiative from Barcroft Environmental Club members! Lights Out Friday. Let’s conserve energy! Other benefits, a sense of calm throughout the building. Happy for admin & custodial support @APSscience @APS_Sustainable @GabyRivasAPS @BarcroftEagles @BarcroftLibrary @BiBaChat
Forces and motion playgrounds.Kinders built models of their designs. Simply Amazing to watch when children are given science time & a tray of simple supplies! Good for brains, hands and souls to build and create.@APSscience @GabyRivasAPS @APS_Sustainable
Thank you Ms Ann, Ms Debbie & Ms Cindy for teaching our kids about sowing seeds in homemade jug greenhouses. They planted kale, arugula, brussel spout seeds etc! @APSscience @APS_Sustainable @BarcroftEagles @GabyRivasAPS @BarcroftLibrary
The fabulous 5th graders researched, voted on, secured funding, ordered and installed a new bird bath in the Barcroft garden! I love when kids make things happen! @APSscience @BarcroftEagles @GabyRivasAPS @APS_Sustainable
Guess what Barcroft’s Environmental Club started? Walk (bike,bus,carpool scooter) to School Wednesday!! Cut out fossil fuels. Carpool/ride the bus! If you live/work close, walk or bike@APSscience @BarcroftEagles @APS_Sustainable @GabyRivasAPS
So proud of these students! Completely student led initiative…Recycling Club committee speaks with custodial staff , sharing plan to help custodians collect weekly classroom recycling! @APSscience @APS_Sustainable @BarcroftEagles @GabyRivasAPS
Barcroft 3rd Ss dissecting owl pellets! How does an owl use adaptations to hunt & catch prey? What exactly does an owl eat?! Students found skulls, jaws, femurs and more, belonging to mice shrews and voles! @APSscience @BarcroftEagles @GabyRivasAPS
Nice to get out Barcroft’s Environmental Stewards outdoors with our master gardener volunteers. Kids snipped and turned cover crops in our vegetable bed! @BarcroftEagles @APSscience @APS_Sustainable @GabyRivasAPS
Barcroft kinders are learning about water and how we use it. I just love these littlest Eagles! They are recording info, watering plants and enjoying our fish who’s habitat happens to be water! @APSscience @BarcroftEagles @GabyRivasAPS
And here are some more third grade Barcroft Eagles’ interpretations of the water cycle using colored tiles! @GabyRivasAPS @APSscience @BarcroftEagles @BarcroftLibrary @APS_STEM
So my fabulous third graders are here to show you their interpretation of the water cycle. @BarcroftEagles @GabyRivasAPS @BarcroftLibrary @APSscience @BiBaChat