Deliciousness . Six Sentence Stories . Out of Eden Learn . We are the Forest . Food Forest

Deliciousness

This week we prepared the handful of tomatoes harvested from the garden this fall. We quartered them, sprinkled with sea salt and Aleppo pepper, drizzled with olive oil and then let them sit comfortably in the oven (225 degrees) for a few hours. We think you should try it sometime.

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Six Sentence Stories

While working on our own short stories, we identified major plot points found in stories and practiced telling stories in six sentences. Our purpose is to recognize the framework that forms the skeleton of stories and then use it to shape our own. This helps foster intentionality in our storytelling and encourages us to consider the purpose that each sentence has in the story. Is it advancing the action? Is it revealing character?

Students worked on retelling favorite stories of theirs (or the one they just had to pick because they couldn’t decide) in six sentences, paying attention to the Exposition, Hook, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution (which we refer to as Denouement because it sounds better.)

Out of Eden Learn

We connected with our learning partners in different parts of the country and globe this week by reading their posts about themselves and posting questions and comments, naming what we noticed and extending our thoughts by sharing connections or asking some follow-up questions. We also shared a little about ourselves and how we connect to the Out of Eden Walk. Next week we will begin working on mapping our neighborhoods, sharing both how these places inform our identities as well as exploring how places themselves have identities.

We are the Forest

This week, we welcomed back brothers Nate and Nick Ayers (We are the Forest) to our elective to share their passion and wisdom with us. We explored the importance of forests through music, history and ecology. We also continued to grow our native tree library with a selection of native trees which we started to plant this week and will finish putting in the ground next week.

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Buhr Park Food Forest

We returned to the food forest today to continue our work there. The students prepared a grass barrier by soaking and arranging cardboard and then covering this with wood chips. Some also planted fennel in the pear guild, which will serve as both a pollinator plant and attract beneficial insects including parasitoid wasps and lacewings to help control pests.

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