Email seeds@waynewoodpta.org if interested in joining the committee or if you have any questions or comments.

 

Spring 2024 Workday Schedule

All workdays are after school from 4 to 5:30pm.

Friday April 19th

Friday May 17th

 

Projects for 2023-2024

• Install Little Library!  Looking for a family or group that can assemble and install the Little Library!
• Install compost area signs (volunteers requested!)
• Install fencing or edging around the shade & pollinator bed.
• Continue removing the landscape fabric in the pumpkin patch area.
• Continuation of the Garden Club enrichment program
• Author and Illustrator will visit with Grade K-3 on Wednesday May 1st.

We are excited to welcome author Cazzy Zuhursky to Waynewood ES for an assembly for K-3 on Wednesday May 1st at 3pm.

 

Cazzy Zahursky is a wife and mother to two daughters and a lively Australian Shepherd. She sees life as a source of inspiration for children's book concepts, often popping up unexpectedly. When she is not drawing or writing, she enjoys spending time with her family, reading, traveling, volunteering at her children's schools, and staying active. She is a firm believer that all children have the potential to develop a love for reading, as long as they find the right book. Cazzy also believes in the magic of storytelling, using her words and illustrations to transport young readers into fantastical worlds within the itty-bitty confines of a book.

 

As a mother of two, and avid reader, and an author and illustrator, it is an absolute pleasure for her to get a chance to visit our school.  Hopefully, our students will return home after the assembly excited about reading and inspired to explore their own creative potential.

 

If you are interested in pre-ordering any autographed, school visit discounted books for them to receive during her visit, please order them here by Monday April 29th.

 

Click HERE to Pre-order Autographed Books

 

Any questions or need further information, please reach out to our SEEDs committee chairs Rochelle and Erin at seeds@waynewoodpta.org 

 

Thank you for your continued PTA support!

 

2022 – 2023 School Year Projects and Programs

• Planted produce donated by Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food & Agriculture. The Waynewood Elementary School Garden Club harvested & donated produce to United Communities food bank & to Groveton Baptist’s weekly food distribution.
• Constructed two compost holding bins with funds awarded to SEEDs from a Community Forklift grant.
• Repaired damaged raised beds.
• Installed signs in the pollinator bed.
• Pruned the trees & bushes.
• Spread 20+ cubic yards of mulch in the courtyard & throughout the school grounds.
• Prepared the progressive pumpkin patch.
• Organized the sheds.
• Provided supplies to teachers to make grade-level raised bed signs.
• WEEDED!!

 

Programs offered:

• The PTA Enrichment Committee was able to offer the Waynewood Garden Club.
• Hosted hot chocolate in the courtyard during the bookfair.
• Hosted Grade-level planting activity with Juan Pablo Echeverria, Outreach & Education Manager at Arcadia Farm.
• Hosted Kindergarten basil seed planting & garden lesson also with Juan Pablo Echeverria.
• Began collecting compostable items like apple cores & banana peels from students during lunch.
• Hosted a chicken party with Mrs. Hanson & Courtney Nelson’s chickens.
• Author Flora Ahn shared her book A Spoonful of Time.
• Hosted a monthly Garden Club of Waynewood weeding & social workday.

 

 

 

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On April 12, Arcadia Farm helped with a spring planting day in the courtyard!  Check out the pictures below!