End of the School Year ;-}

 Posers.... and good workers too.
I think these three will help me out quite a bit next year.
Exploring and solving real-world problems through hands-on exploration is essential. In the garden, students learn to work cooperatively with others, practice patience, and feel pride in their accomplishments and it's fun too.

The test are all graded and the room is cleared out.

Some of  the kids at school welcomed the opportunity to get outside and get their hands dirty in the school garden/prairie.   This year we hand dug the four raised beds, then ran the tiller through them.  We planted  red flint corn and a mix of sunflower seeds in each bed. We removed the split rail fence from the construction area.

 With the expansion of our on-campus community college welding academy (white pole building on the right side) , we will be loosing about half of our outdoor nature lab.  So the kids have been busy transplanting prairie grasses and forbs  to the western side of the prairie.

My Bee Keeping mentor Dave was subbing at school for one of the teachers who took kids out the state track meet.

Dave showed a few of the boys who got geared up and I around the bee hive while some others watched from inside the green house in the back of my classroom.  Dave pointed out the developing drone cells and worker cells on the frames.

Here's a shot of Derek in the bee gear.
Nice shot Nick.

One of the frames that Dave pulled out of the hive.

Some of the standard Banana plants moved outside for the summer.  I also have several dwarf varieties of bananas and Doc's rubber tree (not one of those damn jade plants) planted at home by the VW bus at home just for that tropical feel.

Closed out soccer regular season with an 8-6-0 record.  5th in the State of Iowa in overall goals scored with 82 goals!  On to Districts.