Outdoor Learning Alliance Back to School 2024 Updates!
/Can you smell the back-to-school flowers? The Outdoor Learning Alliance (OLA) sure can! OLA is a subgroup of the PTO committed to providing spaces for our students and staff to take a break from the fluorescent lights and classroom walls. These spaces provide a blank educational canvas for any teacher to use while rejuvenating everyone’s minds with nature. This week, OLA has been hard at work in a few outdoor learning areas at Placentino and RAMS.
At Placentino, the courtyard vegetable beds are ready to be planted by students, the weeds are gone, and the flowers are tucked in with a fresh layer of mulch. Some of the students even helped to decorate a newly donated birdhouse to add to the collection. Oh, and did we mention the smell of flowers? That would probably be the new colorful planters which now greet students and staff every morning at Placentino and Miller.
Meanwhile, RAMS has their Outdoor Learning Area Project in full-swing. Beds have been dug and filled, and the picnic tables (AKA Adult Legos) have been assembled and placed. This will surely be a cool place to read a book or witness some abscission!
If doing all of this sounds like fun, then please do not hesitate to get involved with OLA here.
If you prefer to keep the dirt from under your fingernails then we would greatly appreciate donations here or via Venmo @HollistonPTO (OLA in the comments). Our funds are used for projects such as these as well as wish-list supplies for teachers wishing to use it in their curriculum.
Lastly, if you happen to come into any of these schools for Back to School Night then please do check these projects out!
