在阳光明媚的六月日子里，路过O.S. Geiger 学校的人们会看到一群学生热情投入到室外建设活动中。

这是从哪里开始的呢？去年秋天，六年级的学生们在蒂姆霍顿儿童牧场度过了一个充满乐趣的学习周。现在在五月，五年级的学生们轮到他们去露营了。

在蒂姆霍顿儿童基金会的赞助下，五年级和六年级的学生们与加拿大公园与野外保护协会合作，通过社区领导者项目展开工作。他们在整个学年期间一直致力于一个社区服务项目，即在学校的校园内建造花园箱。他们撰写了提案和信函，就蓝图进行了辩论，并通过计算每个花园地块的周长、面积和体积来加强他们的数学技能。

五月份，在加拿大公园与野外保护协会的雅克琳的帮助下，学生们在学校的温室里种植了蔬菜的种子。雅克琳教给他们如何制作报纸种植器来容纳他们的种子和土壤。这种种植器可以直接移植到他们的花园地块中。

在6月1日，期待已久的花园箱建设日到来了！学生们运用他们的建筑技能搭建了五个雪松花园箱。他们在底部铺上景观布，然后放入一层浅层的碎石。接下来，他们用肥沃的土壤填满每个箱子，用我们温室中培育的蔬菜进行移植。整天的活动中，来自蒂姆霍顿儿童牧场的指导员和项目 facilitators 带领着我们。当地蒂姆霍顿咖啡馆的老板们，他们慷慨地支持蒂姆霍顿社区领导者项目，也来参观我们的建设过程。

请在我们的户外教室旁寻找这片花园。秋天，我们计划收获这些蔬菜，并向卡尔加里食品银行捐赠。这个为期一年的过程旨在为未来的数年在O.S. Geiger 学校开展园艺种植奠定基础。

Those passing by O.S. Geiger School on a sunny June day would have seen groups of students highly engaged in an outdoor construction activity.

Where did this begin? Last fall, Grade 6 students enjoyed a fun-filled week of learning at Tim Horton’s Children’s Ranch. Now in May, the Grade 5 students had their turn at camp. 

With thanks to sponsorship from the Tim Horton’s Children’s Foundation, the Grade 5/6 students have been working through the Community Leaders Program in partnership with CPAWS (Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society). This process saw them spend the school year working on a community service project to build garden boxes on our school grounds. They wrote proposals and letters, debated blueprint plans, and strengthened their mathematical skills through calculating the perimeter, area and volume of each garden plot.

In May, with the help of Jaclyn from CPAWS, the students planted seeds in our school greenhouse to start the vegetables. Jaclyn showed them how to make a newspaper planter to hold their seeds and soil. This planter could then be transplanted directly into their garden plots.

On June 1, the long anticipated garden box building day arrived! Students used their building skills to construct five cedar garden boxes. They lined the bottoms with landscape cloth, followed by a shallow layer of gravel. Next they filled each box with rich soil for growing and transplanted the vegetables started in our greenhouse. Throughout the day, we had the leadership of the counselors and program facilitators from the Tim Horton’s Children’s Ranch here to help us. Owners of the local Tim Horton’s, who generously support the Tim Horton’s Community Leaders Program, also visited us to see the construction occur.

Look for the garden by our Outdoor Classroom. In the fall, we plan to harvest the vegetables and make a food donation to the Calgary Food Bank. This year-long process aims to kick-start garden growing at O.S. Geiger School for years to come.