Global Youth Service Day, 2013

Global Youth Service Day is celebrated worldwide at the end of April (26th-28th), but we celebrated this year on May 3rd with a walking field trip around the Boulevard neighborhood.

Equipped with requisite vests and "litter gitters," we began picking up trash right away.

It's funny (not really) how many cigarette butts we found around medical office buildings.

The dirtiest location by far was between McDonalds and the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house, where the kids found a pair of pants. Luckily, we never saw the owner.

A variety of plants and gardens along Boulevard offered curious stops along the way.

The rain held off until we returned to school, and the trip was a success. In all, we collected around three bags of trash, and one bag of recyclables. 

Click the image above, or right here to learn more about Global Youth Service Day, and how you can join the estimated 2 million young people around the world.

Global Youth Service Day

Thanks to Chase Street parent Stacy Smith, from Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful, for loaning us enough gear for two classes.

The route began outside the 2nd/3rd grade wing, and continued around the neighborhood.

Everyone we talked to along the way appreciated the effort to - as Thomas, Hunter, and Selina shouted - "Keep Athens beautiful!"

The Fantastic Field Trip

It was fun when I went to the fild trip. I learned alot of stuff and I saw lots of plants like cabage,carrots,onions,and cactie. The class went to Boulevard Community garden. I went to Josie's house it was fun because she had a little playground. Josie's mom gave us ice cream the flavor was lemon bomb it tasted good. Josie had two dogs their names were Sally and Molly were playful . The class ate lunch their. I was happy about the field trip. Her mom started to talk about her garden and we tasted plants. Josie had a garden to. Josie's little brother Jack was nervous at first but then when we went to his house and he was happy, then we we went to school I was excited about the field trip Good bye.

Elio Life Reflextion

We went on a walking field trip to Josie's house.  I learned how to identify some plants.  I was happy to see so much wild life in someones back yard.  I was so happy to see so many plants I made a recycled garden bed.  The garden bed is made out of a card board box with an arch at the back of it. I'm going to attach two poles to it so when it gets cold I can lay a tarp across them.  I cut off the bottom of the box so the roots can go into the ground and so that worms can get in. 

Elio

The Walking Field Trip To Josie's House And Community Garden

Today we went on a walking field trip to the community gardens and Josie's house.  First we got seed balls. Next we went to Josie's house and dropped off the lunches. Then we went to the community gardens and we saw plants like arugula, lemon bomb, beats, rubarb, carrots, peas, tomatos and black berrys.  Then we went back to Josie's house and played in her back yard.  Later we got a garden tour.  After we ate lunch then we played some more and had dessert.  After dessert we went back to school. thanks for reading. Bye.

Jake

The Field trip

Today we went on a walking field trip to josie's house. We saw her mom Stacy Smith and her brother Jack and even her dogs Sally and Molly we saw a lot of plants like
blueberrys, cherrys, grapes, honeysuckles, beets, a cactus even, parsley. We had a lot of fun and we got to eat ice cream. I really enjoyed it.


Emma, and Sarahi

Walking Field Trip to Josie's House

We went to the Boulevard Community garden to see lost of plant.  We saw a big fat carrot.  We ate blueberry's at Josie's house. THEY WERE SO SO GOOD AND I LOVE THEM!  We saw some honeysuckle too.  We saw a pond.  We also saw a mocking bird and a thrasher.  We ate Ice cream too. We saw two cute dogs named Sally and Molly. We thought they were really jumpy. Also at the Community garden we saw a bee-hive and tasted lemon balm. They had weird soap in a bags too.  The whole class went to the field trip. We had alot of fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


By Bilka and Josie

The Walking Field Trip to Josie House

First we were walking to Josie's. Then we were walking boulevard community garden and then we were looking at the flower. Then we went to Josie's house and then we were talking about plant and flowers.Then we went to eat lunch and then we ate ice cream as dessert and then we went back to school.

Aron