Cleaning/Developing the School

bringing sand over to be sifted

They have just announced that the last hour of the day on Thursdays will be used for cleaning/developing the school. They split the students in half and split the school in half and assigned each group a half of the school. They also have two groups that work with planting things to come and help out each of the groups of students. Today was the first day they were working on things, so I went to see what was going on, the one half was working on cleaning up leaves and sticks and moving them to an area they had set aside to I think try to make some type of compost, and then the other half was moving sand/dirt and sifting it to get the rocks out, and then by the end of the time they put the dirt into two boxes on either side of the sidewalk and the principal told me he would demonstrate how to plant a type of bean that grows completely overnight ready to eat the next day for the students there. It seemed like a lot of work, but with many hands they had it finished before it was time to go home.

digging up the sand

girls picking rocks out who had me block the sun from them for a few minutes

carrying leaves away

gathering leaves

working together to make a chain and carry the sifted sand to where they were making the boxes

putting the sand down and leveling it out