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WHAT'S NEW AT
MEDULLA ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL
Box Tops for Education
It's easy to earn cash for our school. Go to btfe.com and sign up
today!
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coupon is worth 10 cents for our school. Send the Box Top
coupons to school. Twice a year, Box Tops will send a check to
our school for each Box Tops coupon redeemed, up to $20,000!
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Medulla gets up to 8% back in cash! You may even find discounts or
free shipping offers. You will also find special promotions
throughout the year with exclusive offers and increased donations.
Get your friends and family involved! They buy
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our school no matter where they live. They, too, can take
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go to btfe.com and sign up today!
Labels for Education
Help us earn free merchandise for our school!
Save the UPC codes from eligible products and send
them to school. Medulla sends the UPC's to the Labels for
Education program and receives points towards the purchase of
merchandise for our classrooms. The points add up! We exchange the
points for things like teaching tools, art supplies, musical
instruments, sporting goods, software, and much more.
Garden Club Happenings
Florida
Learn and Serve Project
This year our fifth graders have been involved in a
Florida Learn and Service Project.
It is called Medulla Schoolyard Nursery.
They have been learning about Florida Native Plants.
After the classroom instruction, they have propagated plants from
cuttings and seeds.
We have a greenhouse with a misting system to
facilitate rooting the cuttings.
Once they begin to root, the plants are moved outside to continue
to grow until transplanted into larger containers.
The students will be taking a field trip to the
Circle Bar B Preserve to plant these Florida native plants and some more
mature ones that we have purchased.
We are in the process of editing a book that the
students have created on Florida Native Plants.
This will be published and available for sale.
We are participating in the Florida Learn and Serve
Fair at Tenoroc High School on April 23.
Two of our students will represent the fifth grade to explain our
project and speak to the school board.
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| Planting seeds in the greenhouse |
Labeling all of the plantings for
identification |
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| Garden Club members |
Gathering seedlings for repotting |
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| Mrs. Hansill with 5th grade Learn and Serve
team |
Watering the newer container plantings |
Beautification Project
Have you seen the beautification going
on around the school lately? If you are here every other Thursday
each month you will see a small group of adults and lots of children
with shovels, rakes, and wheelbarrows gladly traversing the campus
pulling weeds, laying much, and planting flowers to help make Medulla a
beautiful spot on Schoolhouse Road.
This handiwork is done by the Medulla
Garden Club, which started in the spring of 2007 under the
direction of one our teachers, Ginger Hansill. This club which
meets twice a month have received excellent instruction from local
nurserymen and landscape experts as well as going on a field trip to the
STAR Nursery to learn about plant propagation.
In January they began the Backyard
Nursery, a service learning project, where the children are taking
care of seedlings to be donated later to schools and Polk County Parks
for landscaping. This project along with others are planned for
the remainder of the year and it is going to be a great opportunity for
children to learn about the love of gardening first hand.
Take a look at some of the photos that
have been taken during Garden Club.
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| Planting in the Butterfly Garden |
Butterfly Release into the Garden |
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| Planting Coleus in the Picnic Area |
Releasing ladybugs into the Garden |
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| Preparing the Ground for Planting |
Pulling Weeds in the Garden |
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