Ms Kari's Summer Greenthumbs Log -

August 8 - 12 The Week of the Conference:

Isaac, Hannah, Jack, Gage...The Greenthumbs have been so busy this week putting their displays together, coloring posters, collecting specimines, and doing last minute research. I have never seen kids more engaged with the process of learning about plants as I have this week! Yeay Greenthumbs!!

PHOTOS

Week One
June 14 - in attendance were Kierian, Gage, Oskar and Jack

Cooking - Oskar an Kierian made us all pancakes from scratch and sausages. Kierian notices that the recipe for pancakes was the same as for waffles. You cook them differently. Jack played runescape during this time. They each washed dishes after the meal.

Runes - Rivers of the 9 Worlds, Name the World Tree ------. They made a vocabulary list of known and unknown terms from the chart of rune alphabet lineage. While doing on-line research of their first term - Phoenicia - they learned that Taautos got the runes from Ba'alat Nikkal (goddess of the moon) by playing a flute. 8,000 B.C.

Skald - a vocab word from the "Viking Times" book. (means bard)

Q. How did Odin get the Runes? Answer found on line from a link off Phoenicia. At choice time Oskar and Kierian (but mostly Oskar) played Runescape.

Biking and such - We learned first aid procedures for possible arm fractures. We practiced on Kierian as he had need of first aid after wiping out on a jump. He was wearing his helmet.

Herbology - Ms Kari, Gage, Jack, Oskar and Kierian met plantswoman Sandy Arseth at the Medicinal Garden housed at Minnehaha Aveneue Community Gardens. They collected plant specimines, wrote their names, and explored their uses. They took down a Buckthorn tree and planted hops. We snacked on strawberries and tea. We were there for almost two hours.

Free Time - Xio Lin Showdown and a little more Runescape then swimming and biking.

June 15 - Kierian, Oskar, Jack, Isaac, and Hannah

Museum Field Trip - We went to the MIA. First we saw the outdoor sculpture. The kids identified several medicial plants used in the borders including juniper, echinacia, mint and birch trees. They discovered the labyrinth and were enthralled. Other highlights included the Chinese warrior cerimonial dress and helmets, Oskar's favorite part. Isaac stood and drew the the Egyptian amulets for almost half and hour. Hannah loved the Mummy. Kierian was overwhealmed by the African masks. Jack was fascinated by the travel Menorah's and the Chinese rooms. Jack could remember much about the "Winged Genius" that he learned about through Hiawatha Community School's involvement with the MIA's Art Adventure Program.

We found works from the Phonecians and Eutruscans that were mentioned in our Runeology from yesterday. We looked at the pages from the scriptorium especially the pages from the herbal/medicinal books and the music.

Herbology - We took our samples from yesterday's garden trip and created paintings, sketches and terminology just like the medeval pages we had seen in the museum.

Runeology - Isaac translated the Rune Your Day page from the packet and everyone translated Ms. Kari's messages.

We swam at Hiawatha Community School Park and played quite a lot.

June 16th
Hannah, Isaac, Kierian, Jack, and Oskar

9-11 Herbology at the Medicinal Gardens with Sandra Arseth. Children will be designing the covers for the tour brochures!

Lunch and free time

1-3 Bike to some other gardens around Longfellow and to the river

Swim

June 17th

Isaac, Kierian, Jack, and Oskar

Herbology - We made a poultice for Isaac's thumb of Comfrey leaves and St. John's Wort oil. Kierian made Tarragon Vinnegar. We played a lot of
D&D, took a trip to the bike shop and lounged in the sun. We said farewell to Kierian who will be in Colorado for the rest of the summer and the Greenthumbs take a break.

Greenthumbs

June05

July 05

August 05 The Garden Conference!