CSK Botanists at Work!
Makiyah Tolbert
Makiyah Tolbert
Makiyah Tolbert
The "Blooming Through Literacy Project" allows students to integrate reading, writing, researching, and critical thinking skills to botany, the study of plants.
Miracle Edwards
Makiyah Tolbert
Makiyah Tolbert
This special STEM initiative allows students to have hands-on experiences while giving them an opportunity to hone their literacy skills. CSK scholars, Miracle Edwards and Makiyah Tolbert have gotten things off to a great start! They are becoming scientists and leaders, setting an example of excellence in research for their peers.
Learn Botany with Madame Hardy!
Setting up
Setting up
Setting up
Our indoor garden is ready!
Jan. 30
Setting up
Setting up
The students planted green beans, canteloupe, squash, and cabbage.
Feb. 3
Setting up
Botanists
Tiny sprouts appear.
Botanists
Botanists
Botanists
Dedicated botanists tenderly care for their plants.
Feb. 5
Botanists
Feb. 5
The beautiful botanists check on their plants!
Feb. 7
Botanists
Feb. 5
It's time to repot our new plant!
Learn Botany with Madame Hardy!
March 3
March 3
March 3
Miracle is caring for her "plant babies".
March 3
March 3
March 3
Botanist at work!
March 6
March 3
March 10
March 10
March 10
March 10
They are growing!
March 18
March 10
March 18
Our botanist is checking on her babies!
March 20
March 10
March 18
New seeds ere planted today!
Learn Botany with Madame Hardy!
April
April 16
April
Students caring for our garden!
April
April 16
April
Ms. K. Smith and her student at work!
April 16
April 16
April 16
April
April
April 16
Ms. Smith is amazing!
April
April
April
Some plants were relocated outside!
May 1
April
April
Growing! Growing! Growing!
Let's Garden Together!
March 10, 2025
March 10, 2025
March 10, 2025
This is how it started.
May 22, 2025
March 10, 2025
March 10, 2025
This is how things are going!
May 2025
The love of botany is contagious!
Miss Adebiyi, our physics teacher, is getting her students involved in the project. (May 19, 2025)
Wow!
Do you see what I see? Are those cucumbers growing? We are learning so much from our indoor garden? (May 16, 2025)
Last Photos for the 2024-25 Indoor Garden!
Our Bell peppers... June 13, 2025
Thank you Donors Choose and Alison Smith!
Thank you Donors Choose and Alison Smith!
(June 13, 2025) The Indoor Garden Project was experimental. The students and I learned so much this year. These bell peppers grew with minimal care. Their healthy green color reveals we used the right fertilizer. We are looking forward to starting again next year.
Thank you Donors Choose and Alison Smith!
Thank you Donors Choose and Alison Smith!
Thank you Donors Choose and Alison Smith!
My students and I are GRATEFUL for Donors Choose and Alison Smith for funding the "Blooming Through Literacy: An Indoor Garden Project. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! While this experience only lasted for a few months, my students will have this empowering knowledge forever!