Restore

Conder Arts Integrated Magnet School

Restore Soil and Habitat


2019-2020

Some of our friend with their Bonnie Plants Cabbages.

Students learned all about how to take care of them and will go home to teach others. We also planted a few extras at school to watch grow. We also make sure to use our water barrel to water them!

Arbor Day 2019

Staff with the Richland Soil and Water Conservation District, The SC Forestry Commission and the US Forest Service had a tree planting ceremony in celebration of Arbor day.

Each student and teacher receive a reusable bag of goodies to learn about why trees are so important. Students then gathered for a special assembly which featured and Arbor Day proclamation by Richland County Councilman Jim Manning encouraging tree planting. Follow this the students enjoyed educational entertainer Tim Womick, who explored the importance of tress an forest.

2018-2019(Due to Construction at the school we didn't have the garden but can't wait to have it up and running for the 2020-2021 school year. )

Habitat-

Bonnie plants has continued to donate the plants for our garden. We plant a fall crop and our a spring crop every EARTH DAY with the community. Our school used the garden to learn about how we get our food. Students in the BSP class help take care of the garden and harvest crops. They teach others by how to take care of a garden. The students love watching the crop grow.

Learn: Students learned all about soil from the one of our Green guest from the Richland Soil and Water Conservation District.

Teach: Students have discussed and taught others about the plants in the garden, the needs, and growth of the garden.

Soil and Water Conservation Visit-

Learn: Students at different grade levels learned about standard specific information on the importance of soil to our plant.

Compost in and out-We have three outside compost bins and two inside compost bins. Pre-K and first grade save lunch scraps to fill the outside bins. Third and fourth grade have worm compost bins inside that they place lunch scraps in and create compost for plants and our school garden.



Richland Soil and Water Conservation District Activities Schedule

Green Guest

2018-2019

Richland Soil and Water Conservation District



Students planting our garden during our Earth Day Event


Soil and Water Conservation Picture


Watch my Garden Grow




Columbia, SC – Twenty-three students will receive awards in this year’s Conservation Poster Contest sponsored by the Richland Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD). Student posters addressed the topic “Life in the Soil: Dig Deeper,” raising awareness about the importance of healthy soil ecosystems and how humans can protect and promote soil life. Students illustrated this theme in a multitude of ways, from the colorful biology of soil ecosystems to conservation practices such as silt fences which reduce soil erosion on disturbed ground. This year’s participants demonstrated that soil is more than just “dirt,” and that we should take precautionary measures to ensure its health.

  • Honorable Mention: Janely Resendíz, L.W. Conder Arts Integrated Magnet School, 3rd grade


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UPDATE: Outdoor classroom with be moved and updated! We are so excited that our outdoor classroom is being moved to beside our Conder Community Garden area. Coming Soon! Stay tune.

We are trying to restore and protect the little bit of green area we have on our school grounds. We planted a Conder Community Garden this year during our Recycling/Earth Day Community Event, April 21, 2018. Bonnie Plants donated all the plants for our community gardens. On that day parents, students, and staff came to the school worked together to clean up the neighborhood, school grounds, and plant a community garden.



2017-2018 A District Conservationist from USDA presented to the students at Career Day back in November. She talked to the students about where our food comes from and what regions of the state it grows. She also talked about protecting the environment and our resources.


Soil- We have several indoor classroom vermi-bins where we recycle food scraps from

lunch and then our fabulous P-K class has a outdoor bin to compost food and one is by our garden