King in the News

SOLV KING GREEN TEAM

Tue, 1 Nov 2011 21:23:56 -0700

A connected green team community
Posted on November 1, 2011 by SOLV Green Team
Green Teamers from King Elementary School visited Abernethy Creek for the first time this school year to help us protect some newly planted native trees and shrubs with coffee bags. Together with Charlie(SOLV), Gavin a Gladstone High School senior who is volunteering to lead our King Elementary students on their monthly outings to Abernethy Creek, instructed students on proper coffee bagging techniques while also reminding students why this stream enhancement project is so important for water quality and wildlife habitat.
The coffee bags are donated to us from Boyd’s Coffee Company. The bags are made out of a grass called Jute, which biodegrades in a few years. We lay them on either side of our newly planted natives to shade out invasive weeds from around the plantings.
Many students from the Clackamas Academy of Industrial Science Green Team joined us and worked alongside the younger students! Green Team staff were so proud to have students representing three Green Team schools all volunteering together after school on their own time!
Thank you King Elementary, Gladstone High and Clackamas Academy of Industrial Science students!

Farm to School Day

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:09:27 -0700

http://orcityfarmersmarket.com/2011/10/30/the-market-goes-to-school/

The Market goes to school!
Posted on October 30, 2011 by Oregon City Farmers Market
King Elementary School invited the Market to their Farm to Table activities on Wednesday October 26th. Teacher and Green Team Coach Jamie Semrad and her volunteer’s set up a wonderful replica of a Farmers Market in the gym with a shopping area, an apple tasting table and a fun activity. We set up the Kid’s POP Club table with pictures and information, and spoke about the Power of Produce Club offered at the Oregon City Farmers Market to each class as they rotated through the gym.
Each class stopped first at the POP Club table to learn about the club including the great news that it will be continuing through the Winter Market starting November 5th. (Thanks to Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation District!) Each student received a bookmark with all the OC Farmers Winter Market info in their shopping bags.
Next the students rotated over to the activity table where they could write down their guesses for the weight of a giant head of cabbage. Rumor has it the cabbage weighted 13 pounds!!! Then the kids went over to shop at the “market”.
Second grade teacher Jamie Semrad and her team of volunteers had arranged fresh local produce from the Oregon City Farmers Market and the school garden in attractive displays. The tables were filled with both orange and purple carrots, radishes, rhubarb, apples, both red and golden beets, purple peppers, green beans, kohlrabi, brussles sprouts, potatoes and turnips. Another table held fragrant produce; garlic, cilantro and a small herb pot containing thyme, rosemary and sage. Each student was encouraged to choose two pieces of produce, hopefully ones they had not tried before, to put in their bags and take home. Popular early choices included purple carrots, kohlrabi, and purple peppers!
Students were then encouraged to smell the herbs and garlic as they passed the fragrant table on their way to the tasting station. At tasting station students were able to sample slices of fresh Tsugaru apples and a variety of crisp Asian pear. Big smiles filled their faces as they munched away on the sweet healthy treats.
Congratulations go out to Jamie and her crew of volunteers….great Job!!! And thanks to Oregon City Farmers Market vendors Kiyokawa Orchards, Three Brothers Nursery, Spring Creek Nursery, Gardenripe, Green Acres Farm, Parsons Farms, Hansen Family Farm, Family Table Farm and May’s Produce and Flowers for providing the fresh produce and decorations for the first Farm to Table day at the school.

Oregon Green Schools

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:27:11 -0700

Students.pdf

Digital Classroom

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:24:50 -0700

Digital Classroom by Jody Bean.pdf

Oregon City News

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:20:17 -0700

Students plant a garden fit for a.pdf