Yes, that's right, I said, Happy New Year! Happy New School Year! I met all of my new students today and I'm so excited about our year together. We seem to have a wonderfully diverse mix of personalities and interests. It was fun to get to tell my students about the composter and the worm bin that were donated to us via DonorsChoose.org. We're also receiving an audio CD of the book The Gardener and a pair of work gloves, which we will sign as a symbol of our inaugural vegetable garden at SES.
Coincidentally, or perhaps, serendipitously, our order for the gardening and composting items shipped today. I can't wait to get our table scraps and lawn clippings cooking away in there so we can get some nutritious, organic soil into our veggie beds! Obviously, we're going to "cheat" a little by purchasing organic soil at first, or we'd have to wait two months to plant anything. I'm hoping Home Depot will donate some soil to us in exchange for free advertising at our school.
The best part of all of this is how enthusiastic my students seemed about getting to dig in the dirt and produce food by themselves. I'm so eager to get us going, I may have to go to Home Depot this weekend!
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