We launch on January 30th this year, and will be keeping track of all Middle School and Lower School reading every day for 28 days. Directions and seeds will be coming home with students on Friday the 30th. PK-2nd graders will bring home slips for recording their reading time, and 3rd-8th graders will record their minutes on a poster in their homeroom (LS) or their English classrooms (MS). Every week there will be a way to earn a bonus hour that builds on the theme. Every minute read will equal a seed that will go to grow a community garden. Some of the seeds will go to our own community farm, some will go to AFSC gardens in Logan, West Virginia that our US students and faculty helped create and support on Intersession each year, and some will go to gardens identified by Seed Savers Exchange. We hope to reach 320,000 minutes/seeds and plant 8 gardens. You can see our progress in the MS Collection space and the Tanglewood Library - and we'll post pictures here, too. Currently, we're looking for 2 liter soda bottles to make planters for every classroom to have a mini garden of micro-greens. If you have any bottles bring them to either library.
