tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33693050745193315802024-03-12T19:35:39.081-07:00Kids Grow Green Sioux FallsKids Grow Green Sioux Falls is a project / event created by an elementary student in Sioux Falls to educate kids on how to grow garden plants from seeds, to sell at a stand, similar to a lemonade stand, in order to raise money for green causes.MusicalMommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202088552092965426noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369305074519331580.post-50547723645937204592015-12-18T08:00:00.001-08:002015-12-18T08:00:05.572-08:00Recycle Milk Cartons!!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Please watch and spread the word about milk carton recycling and how to implement programs in your school to recycle school lunch milk cartons!!</div>
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Visit the Carton Council website at <a href="http://www.recyclecartons.com/">www.recyclecartons.com</a></div>
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for more information and resources about how to implement a program in your school.</div>
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A couple weeks ago I was able to present the Black Hills Raptor Center with the money we raised for them from the sale of the tomato plants we planted from seeds.</div>
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-The money we gave the Raptor Center will be enough to buy 7 bags of mice to feed their birds.</div>
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-The money we gave the Mary Jo Wegner Arboretum will go toward buying a tree for the park.</div>
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-The money we gave Ground Works will be used to make kits for local teachers who wish to do growing and garden projects with their classrooms. </div>
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Total we raised $431.40 just by growing something from a seed.</div>
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Here are some photos of the tomato plants I saved to plant in my own backyard. </div>
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These are some of the first to turn red.</div>
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If you look closely there are at least nine tomatoes in this one photo.</div>
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Happy 4th of July!</div>
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Well, today is really the 5th of July, but it is a great time to give you a KGG challenge.</div>
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One great way kids can help the environment is by picking up garbage when they go on walks. Just bring a garbage bag with you when you go on a walk.</div>
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Today we thought it was the perfect day to go on a garbage walk around our block because it is the 5th of July and there was a lot of fireworks going off last night in our neighborhood. This is the bag we collected while walking around or block.</div>
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It is good to get this stuff off your yards and out of gutters. If it was to rain much of this would have ended up in the sewer system and the toxins such as burned sulfur would end up polluting the water in local drainage ditches which provide a habitat for local animals.</div>
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Researchers have not yet determined how much the shooting of fireworks really effects human health because it is hard to pinpoint a cause and effect for much of the problems they may cause, but they are filled with toxic chemicals that do pollute the air and heavy metals which can be toxic. We may not be able to stop our country from shooting fireworks on the 4th of July. But we can all help clean up afterwards to help keep more pollution from happening after the celebration is over.</div>
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You can take a class, or sign up to bring a field trip here and they will have different classes and activities for you to do. I took a nature photography class.</div>
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You can see the formal gardens, where every thing is labeled so you know what kinds of plants they are. They almost have one of everything that can be grown around here.</div>
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Even the trees are labeled.</div>
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You can sit by a pond.</div>
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You can get your feet wet.</div>
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You can explore.</div>
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I am not talking about window screens but TV and computer screens of all kinds. This means No TV shows, No Movies, No computer games, No DS handheld systems either.</div>
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Put our feet in a nearby lake.</div>
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Explored Pioneer Village in Madison SD</div>
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Spotted things we are sometimes to busy to see.</div>
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Millennium Recycling is having a video contest to help people know what they can and can't recycle in Sioux Falls. <br />
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I love making and editing videos. If given the choice, I make videos for my school projects. So this was a fun contest for me, keeping it to two minutes was the hardest part.<br />
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My little brother's middle name is actually Henry so he thought that this was funny.</div>
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Hello everyone! I am happy to announce that this year we raised $452.75 selling our tomato plants. Considering last year I raised about $64 at the garage sale by myself, I think that this is a huge jump. We ended up giving some of our extra plants to teachers at our school, and then brought some more to the outdoor campus who put a free-will donation box out for those who wanted to give and take home a plant. </div>
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Thank you <a href="http://gfp.sd.gov/outdoor-learning/outdoor-campus/east/default.aspx">Outdoor Campus!!!</a></div>
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We finally got our tomatoes planted in our garden too.</div>
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You are probably wondering why it looks like I planted a plastic bottle. We burry an upside down plastic bottle, with the bottom cut open, next to our tomato plants roots. We water our tomatoes all summer long by putting water into the cut open bottom(now top) of this bottle. Tomato plants don't enjoy getting wet and this delivers water and even some extra air (in our clay soil) to our tomato plants roots. Seems to work well for us and a wise gardening friend once they are full size, they need one bottle full a day to produce. Its a simple built in measuring system. It is also a new use for an old plastic bottle.</div>
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School here is coming to an end soon. Next week Thursday is our last day! We still have some tomato plants left so our principle said we can sell after school next week during the book fair.</div>
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The Book Fair is Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday</div>
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We will plan on setting up shop and we will sell until our plants are gone.</div>
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So come get your tomato plants before it is too late and help us raise money for the Mary Jo Wegner Arboretum, Ground Works, and The Black Hills Raptor Center.</div>
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I am Kids Grow Green!</div>
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This tomato is good for slicing and sandwiches, and this one is great for salsa.</div>
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We have some plants leftover. Please send us an email if you are interested.</div>
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Better Boy's and Celebrations $2 each</div>
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Unknown varieties where we lost the labels are $1 each or 6 plants for $5</div>
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Proceeds go to Ground Works, Mary Jo Wegner Arboretum and The Black Hills Raptor Center</div>
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<strong>Tomato Plant Sale</strong></div>
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<strong>Where:</strong> Sioux Empire Farmer's Market</div>
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Sioux Falls SD</div>
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<strong>When:</strong> Saturday May 3rd</div>
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It's Kingswood rummage sale time again. Kingswood is a HUGE area of rummage sales. We live in the extended Kingswood area and our street is so busy, it is usually ends up like one way traffic. </div>
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So in keeping with tradition I set up shop at our rummage sale this year for an hour before soccer practice started.</div>
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I sold 15 tomato plants!</div>
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While I sent to soccer practice the owner of Kidtopia Toy Store stopped by our rummage sale and saw my booth, tomato plants, and the Hood Magazine All Things Green Issue's I had sitting out. She was impressed and left her phone number and card with my grandparents, who were running our rummage while our family was at soccer events tonight.</div>
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How about truly learning what can and can not be recycled in your recycling bin if you live in the Sioux Falls area? </div>
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To help them to better spread the word, and cut down on the confusion, they came up with a contest. You visit their website and learn what can, and cannot be recycled. </div>
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Totally visit the link whether you enter the contest or not.. </div>
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Learning something new to help the environment is a great way to celebrate Earth Day!<br />
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At the Party for the Planet Event at the Great Plains Zoo, we were able to teach many people how to recycle newspaper into origami seed planting pots. It was a popular booth activity.</div>
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The theme was Princess and the Frog because April is national Frog month and in our break time we got to learn a bit about how far different frogs can jump.</div>
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We had our green hood shirts and my mom and I up cycled some frog headbands the night before using some sticky foam we rescued from the local girl scouts who were tossing large scraps of it away at a reading event a couple years back. We brought home a big box of sticky foam scraps that day we rescued from the landfill and we have used it for many projects over the past couple years. It is handy to have and they were just tossing it.</div>
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Nicole was back to help us fold again as well. She helped at Ag Day too.</div>
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My extended family pitched in and because it was windy outside we turned our dinning room table into tomato transplanting central. Grandma, Aunt, Uncle, brother's and cousins all helped.</div>
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My friend Sean came over to my house to transplant his plants today too. </div>
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I have a total of 192 plants transplanted at my house so far.</div>
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9 of my friends all have trays that have between 20 and 32 transplanted healthy plants at home.</div>
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In honor of Earth Day, the Zoo hosts an annual “Party for the Planet.” April is Frog Conservation month, join us as we celebrate the importance of frogs and conservation with a fairy tale twist.</div>
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Dress as a fairytale character or frog. Learn about saving your amphibian friends.</div>
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Journey through the Zoo for fun conservation activities.</div>
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1:30 p.m. Siamang Gibbons<br /> 2:00 p.m. Cheetahs<br /> 2:30 p.m. Grevy’s Zebra<br /> 3:00 p.m. Eastern Black Rhinoceros<br /> 3:30 p.m. Amur Tigers / Snow Leopards<br /> <br />
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<strong>These Groups will be present and provide activities and learning experiences about helping our planet. </strong></h3>
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<strong>Kids Grow Green will be presenting for Hood Magazine's Booth!</strong></h3>
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We had parents, teachers, a master gardener and my classmates that could stay after school help transplant their plants from the sprouting trays into the milk cartons we collected from school lunch last week. Now they are ready to sell in a few weeks.</div>
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We had a lot of fun working together.</div>
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Gracie's dad was amazed how perfectly the milk cartons fit into the planting trays.</div>
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Nice huh. We didn't plan that it just happened.</div>
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We also got dirty and made a mess. The community center is great! They wouldn't even let us sweep up the extra dirt afterwards. They took care of it for us! Special thanks to Chad!</div>
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We had a few tomatoes that didn't make it, and some that were too small yet to transplant but we had a few extra sprouts we were able to send home with our friends to try again. I brought home some extras that need a little more time to catch up.</div>
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Since I have more plants at my house than my classmates have. I decided to start transplanting mine at home to save some time. This day I worked for about 2 and a half hours transplanting. It was a nice day outside so it worked out great. </div>
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Dumping dirt into the milk carton around my tomato plant.</div>
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Putting my newly transplanted tomatoes back in the tray.</div>
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You can see all my plants to the right waiting their turn.</div>
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I brought this nifty milk recycling system to school Monday and Tuesday and used it to collect milk cartons for transplanting our tomato plants into.</div>
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It didn't seem to take much extra time or effort for the 2nd through 5 graders to do. I only had to rescue one or two full cartons from the bin to dump out and we saved a total 4 recyling containers full milk cartons from the landfill in two days. If we were to recycle them the bags of cartons would go in with our schools other recyclables.</div>
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We got fun collection containers from Millennium Recycling to use to collect our milk cartons. This it is part of the national Carton Council. Milk cartons and juice boxes are actually recyclable here now, and Roosevelt HS and one SF Middle school are already using this system to recycle them. We will be borrowing it and trying it out when we collect our milk cartons.</div>
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A Dr. Seuss, Truffula Tree Planter</div>
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This year's design challenge was to build a Red Planet Rover to accomplish tasks. A group of three other friends and I entered the competition. You get points for the recycled materials you use.</div>
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It is a lot of fun, and fun to watch, and they have a lot of fun things to do while you are there too.</div>
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My group is called the Blast Off Bunch.</div>
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We will start to post challenges for you at home to share with us how you go/grow green at home. You can write us a note, or make us a video about the challenge and we will post it. Our kid ideas of how to Go Green, might be totally new and we should share them with the world.<br />
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Grow your own plants at home to sell at a small stand like I did last year. Sell at rummage sales, or just on your corner. Donate the profits to a green cause of your choice, and let us know about what you are doing and how it is going along the way. </div>
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I sold marigolds last year with my tomatoes. Marigolds are easy to grow and sell really well!</div>
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The Hood Magazine Issue "All Things Green" has now been officially released so I can post a link to the online version for you all to see!</div>
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