PS 102 – The Bay View School Brooklyn, NY

News

• Garden Group Meetings

  Parents  work together each Friday morning from 9:00 - 10:30ish to maintain the garden throughout the year. "Meetings" are informal - but we do use this time to make plans for the garden season and future programming for our students and families. Gloves and tools are available. These sessions are cancelled in the event of rain or cold temperatures (below 40 degrees.) If they are cancelled for any other reason, I will post on www.ps102.org as early as possible.   Hope to see you soon!

  We meet throughout the year - though our sessions are more brief in the winter months.  In the winter we host a Winter Solstice Celebration from 10-2 and we raise money at the PTA Valentine's Day Sale in February - donations of garden/plant/nature/love themed items to sell at our table are appreciated.

  If you are not getting emails about the garden and would like to -- please ask me to add you to the list: melliotsheri@schools.nyc.gov.

   

   

   

  Nature's Classroom @ PS 102

• Family Days in the Garden

  Family Days in the Garden will return in the Spring of 2024.  Check back here when dates are announced.  

  Sign up is required and an adult must accompany and supervise children.  All dates will be confirmed by email by the day before and will be rescheduled if rain is likely.

  Dress for possible mess and bring your own gloves if you prefer (or use ours - we have cotton and also disposable).

  Feel free to bring a snack and water bottle. 

  Activities may include clean-up, planting, harvesting, watering, weeding, clipping, mowing, digging and enjoying our natural world.   Bring a sketch pad/pencils or a camera if you like!

  Feel free to bring/drop off veggie/fruit/bread/coffee grinds/tea bags/egg shells for our compost on these dates.  (Please no meat/dairy or oils)

  All family members are expected to participate  - but you will be able to choose from a range of jobs from light duty to a garden workout.

  Younger and older siblings are very welcome.  

  Please sign up by  emailing  melliotsheri@schools.nyc.gov.  Available dates:

   

   

  Nature's Classroom @ PS 102

• Family Garden Days

  Sign up to join Ms. Sheri in Nature's Classroom @ PS 102 (our school garden) for an afternoon of work and fun! 

  Family Garden Days will return this fall and take place on most Tuesday  (changed from Wednesday for the month of November)  and Friday afternoons from 2:45-3:30pm (or sometimes a bit longer) as weather permits. 

  Sign up is by appointment and an adult must accompany and supervise children.  All dates will be confirmed on the day before and will be rescheduled if rain is likely.

  Participants must agree to wear face masks and practice social distancing. 

  Dress for possible mess and bring your own gloves if you prefer (or use ours - we have cotton and also disposable).

  Feel free to bring a snack and water bottle. 

  Activites may include clean-up, planting, harvesting, watering, weeding, clipping, mowing, digging and enjoying our natural world.   Bring a sketch pad/pencils or a camera if you like!

  All family members are expected to participate  - but you will be able to choose from a range of jobs from light duty to a garden workout.

  Younger and older siblings are very welcome.  

  Email melliotsheri@schools.nyc.gov to sign up.  Available dates will be posted here and updated frequently as they fill. The numbers below indicate open spaces.

  FRI 11/5/21 - 12

  FRI 11/12/21 - 12

  TUES 11/16/21 - 12

  FRI 11/19/21 - 12

  TUES 11/23/21 - 12

  TUE 11/30/21 - 12

  Nature's Classroom @ PS 102

• Week of July 27

  Do you like bugs?  We've attached some cool pics of a katydid that Kim found on our tree guard outside the front door of the school.  If you are on FB - you might want to join "bugspotting" a site where people post and admire pictures of insects - many are quite beautiful.  This link tells you more about our katydid:

  https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/katydid/602773

  I can't say I like mosquitos and ticks! Check out these resources for info on mosquito control and how to avoid or treat a tick bite.

  https://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/pests/tick.htm

  https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/mosquitoes.page.

  ... and we've included pics from the garden.  The white flower is a balloon flower -they also come in shades of pink, blue and purple.  Can anyone identify the other plant and which insect needs it to survive?  

  Nature's Classroom @ PS 102

• Week of July 6

  One of the things most students find interesting in the school garden are these weird bumpy leaves from our hackberry tree.  What do you think causes the bumps?  Read the article to find out.  

  https://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resources/hackberrypsyllids.shtml

  Nature's Classroom @ PS 102