July is HOT at UPES!

 

Watering our garden is very important in the summer!

 

 

Below is a beautiful watermelon plant.  Look at the yellow flower!

This plant takes LOTS of water to produce a fruit!

 

 

Peppers!

 

 

Mr. Slichter's class designed a support system for beans to grow!

 

 

 

Here's one of our attempts to keep the deer out of our garden area. 

It hasn't worked very well.

Notice the straw on the garden beds.  Mr. Aiken's class helped spread this today! 

The straw helps keep the water in the ground during hot days!

 

 

Tomatoes!

 

 

Potatoes!

 

 

These little frogs are all over the garden, near the pond, and in the courtyard!

 

 

Alivia is watering the garden!

 

 

Fish keep cool in our pond!

 

 

HERMOSOS MOMENTOS





UNA HERMOSA MAÑANA DE ALEGRÍA Y MUCHO CARIÑO

MÁS COSECHAS

LOS CHICOS 2DO BROTE COMPARTEN SU COSECHA

NUESTRO CUMPLEAÑOS

NUESTRA ESCUELA FUE FUNDADA UN 2 DE JULIO DE 1875,FELICES DE FESTEJAR ESTE NUEVO ANIVERSARIO Y PODER COMPARTIRLO CON USTEDES..

REPRESENTACIÓN DEL CUENTO "EL VALOR DE LA AMISTAD"
POR ALUMNOS DE 2DO GRADO



INTERCAMBIAMOS REGALOS

CONTENTOS POR TODOS LOS REGALOS Y PODER TRANSMITIR
LO IMPORTANTE QUE ES COMER SANO.





Cute Pests

These three local mammals have been munching through the leaves and stems of many of our plants (peas, beans, cucumbers, squash).  They are so cute, but it is frustrating to lose plants to them.  We are trying new strategies every couple of days!

Lightning Bugs

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/firefly/

In late June and early July, Lightning Bugs emerge in this region of the United States.  We also call them Fireflies.  They light up and fly around as it gets dark.  We have a fun family night during this time - called Glowbugs and Glowsticks -  to celebrate these insects, or at least we try!  During the past week, we have had severe weather in the evenings with much rain, lightning, and thunder.  We have canceled our special night THREE times, and are hoping to reschedule before the lightning bugs disappear!  We are still in this weather pattern for a few more nights (record breaking rainfall).  There are over 2,000 species of these in the world.  Have you seen these in Jesus de Maria?

Growing for Giving

At UPE, our gardens were built for growing and giving.  Over half of our harvest is donated to our local families in need through Project Outreach's Food Pantry so that they may have healthy fresh foods.  In the United States, we often have food collections and are told to bring non-perishable boxes and cans of foods so that these food pantries can have plenty of stock.  It's great that now we have a chance to share fresh food with more than 200 local families!  

During our final spring harvest before summer vacation, our students picked a large amount of swiss chard (leafy, like spinach) and green onions, and brought them to this local "Food Pantry".   We harvest early in then morning, then these donations are made on a few Thursdays in Spring, then almost every Thursday in Summer and Fall.