Spring Volunteer Day
Preparing our environment is about more than just making Hopewell beautiful. It’s about creating an indoor and outdoor learning environment in which your children will thrive. It is also about helping Hopewell thrive. As you know, new enrollment is absolutely essential for our school. A beautiful environment will make Hopewell more attractive to new families.
Thank you for investing in your child’s future education by giving of your time and effort this weekend! We really appreciate all who turned out to work.
Just look at all we accomplished!
- Raised vegetable garden beds built
- Tee Pee wrapped in wire
- Wagon Wheel flower and herb garden reformed and planted
- Flower bed for toddler room built (special thanks to Mike Workman who returned on Sunday to complete this project!)
- Elementary classroom doors re-installed
- Sand box for toddler classroom built
- 20 bags of Red Mulch spread
- 400 lbs of top soil spread
- 3 tons of sand moved to sand boxes
- Garden beds tilled
- Xylophone moved and “planted”
- Deck rail painted behind the xylophone
- 32 table legs painted
- Wobbly chairs made secure
- Rocking chair repaired
- Table legs secured
- Trim on shelves and wooden desks replaced
- Desks stained
- Wooden calendar repaired
- Geography folders made with beautiful pictures from around the world
- Front lawn mowed
- Tree limbs trimmed and hauled away
- 74 wheelbarrows loads of leaves raked and moved
- Lorapetlum trimmed
- Flower beds weeded
- Leaves from drive and walkways blown away
- Sign trim painted
- Bags of trash removed from ditches and roadside
- Marble stones removed from play ground
- Child sized tools hung on deck fence
- Squirrel-go-round installed
- Treads placed on stairs
- Rain barrel cistern started
Material Making
And just look at what we planted:
- 1 flat of primroses
- 1 trumpeter vine
- 3 Carolina Jasmine
- 1 Wisteria
- 100 Gladiola Bulbs
- 30 Dahlias
- 4 packs of Zinnia seeds
- 9 Cone flowers
- 9 Black Eyed Susan’s
- 2 Packs Giant Sunflowers
- 4 peonies
- 1 tea olive
- 3 trailing gardenias
- 2 camellias
- 22 mystery bulbs we don’t know the names of (we know some have beautiful red flowers)
- 3 Packs Poppy seeds
- 2 packs Birdhouse Gourd seeds
- 6 pots of annuals for decks and office porch
- 1 Milo the Cat topiary
- Countless Day Lily’s separated and moved
- Many irises separated
- Wave petunias in playground window boxes
The lemonade stand was a big hit
With numerous gallons of lemonade “sold”, every transaction requiring change… a great lesson for some of our students. Other lessons included “what to do when we find a spider beneath a rock?” (Lower the rock gently to return him to his safe home), “how fast can earth worms wiggle?”, and “why do we put shredded paper in a compost bed?”(check with Danielle Moore if you want to know the answer to this question).
The Lemonade Stand
Reburbishing Tables
Much Needed Repairs
Working on the Herb and Flower Garden
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