Playing during Spring Break

Spring Break wasn't all work. We made time for fun as well. On Wednesday we drove down to San Jose to meet Erika and Emily from Monterey. We went to the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum. We had so much fun there that we forgot to take photos.

Charlotte and I made a corn husk doll together. It reminded me of an Ohio History class I took one summer at the Old Stone House in Lakewood.

After a lovely picnic lunch outside the museum, we walked over to the carousel.













The children took three rides each. In addition to the ostrich, shark, and hummingbird, they rode a dragon, horse, cheetah, elephant, wolf, and others. It was quite a zoo!

Working through Spring Break

One of the tasks keeping me very busy since last October is our school garden project. I submitted a grant proposal through Lowe's Toolbox for Education, and our school was awarded $7000! Now I am coordinating the effort to make our dream garden a reality. This is turning out to be a slower process than planned, and more work as well.

Here is our yard before the project began.

Ten half wine barrels were donated a few weeks ago. We filled them with soil, and the kids were so excited!


Before Spring Break several classes planted seeds in their barrels and transplanted seeds that they had germinated inside. The garden needed tending during the break, so we made several visits.

Here they are planning what to plant.

Now they are sowing the seeds.

And watering them.

We returned to school yesterday, and this barrel already had many green sprouts: snap peas, radishes, and several kinds of lettuce. We'll post more photos soon!