Cabot Street Butterfly Garden

Here are some photographs CASP students took while in the garden near the playground.

CASP Cabot Street Garden 2014

This year was an exciting planting season for the Cabot Gardens. In addition to the Butterfly and Pizza gardens behind the Cabot School, near the outdoor classroom, CASP students expanded the garden area to the playground. Now in front of the school,we began planting flowers and some edible plants. The edible items in the garden include: honeysuckle, strawberries, blueberry bushes, cherry husks, and green beans. Other plants include:  two varieties sedum, columbine, daylilies, phlox, knockout roses, allium, sunflowers, cosmos, sunfire, and lavender. The native plants that we purchased during our Garden in the Woods field-trip are: trillium, jack in the pulpit, trout lily, a blue iris, and a Virginia blue bells.

Best wishes,
Liraz

Perennials that Attract Butterflies

These are examples of other butterfly sustaining plants that were recently added to our garden. Unfortunately, our students were not able to photograph our own flowers, but Pierce researched images online and discover both scientific and common names for each plant. 

Bachelors Button Centaurea Cornflowers

Coral Bells Heuchera Dolce

Here are some flowers photographed by CASP 4/5 students in the Cabot Butterfly and Pizza Garden.

Foxglove Digitalis

Foxglove

Petunia

Petunia

Petunia

Sunflower Sprout

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Sunfire Coreopsis

Columbine Aquilegia

Columbine Aquilegia

Columbine Aquilegia

Columbine Aquilegia

Forget Me Not Myosotis

Pizza Topping Garden

"Warning HOT" Oregano stake with mushrooms

Day Lily Hemerocallis 

 Blueberry Bush Flowers

Blueberry Bush

Honeysuckle Lonicera

Bleeding Hearts

Butterfly Bush

Lady Bug

Pizza Topping Garden and Butterfly Garden

Eco-Boutiquo Success!!!

I am pleased to tell you that the Eco-Boutiquo raised $307! Thank you to all of the CASP students for their help, and the overwhelming support from the Cabot community. The terrariums and Dutch Iris bulbs were the Eco-Boutiquo's most popular items.  The hemp bracelets and up-cycled journals were also a big hit. 

All of the money that was raised goes to purchasing plants for the Butterfly and Pizza Garden. So far Gardening Club and the 4/5 program planted two butterfly bushes, two blueberry bushes, liatris, phlox, iris, salvia, sunflowers, and honeysuckles.  The members of Gardening Club re-used wood planks and rocks to create a pizza-shaped herb and vegetable garden.  Students planted a variety of pizza toppings, such as peppers, tomatoes,  spinach, onions, basil, and oregano (WARNING SPICY).

If you have any questions about the gardens please contact Emma Payette in the 4/5 program. Thanks!

The Amazing World of Dolphins
By: Dana* and Hannah:)


The amazing world of dolphins is one you will never forget. Dive in and read away to the wonderful world under the sea. Dolphins have  lots of cool features. You will learn about those wonderful features while reading what we have written.
                    These are some facts on the dolphins body. Dolphins have 300 bones, and thirty-four muscles. Dolphins can grow to be thirteen feet (four meters). Male dolphins are generaly larger then females. Bottlenose dolphins are the chunkiest of all dolphins alike. Dolphins breathe by using a hole at the top of their head called a blowhole. Dolphins use their blowhole to breathe air like usUnder water, dolphins can hold their breath for about fifteen minnutes. Some dolphins you see will have a pink belly, they wern't just born with a pink belly, their belly is just simply sunburnt.

            

Bottlenose Dolphin

ECO-BOUTIQUO AND BUTTERFLY GARDEN 

BY: LIRAZ, SAVVAS, JOCELYN, AND DANA*

Starting April 22, 2013 we are having an Eco-friendly boutique, in order to raise money for the Butterfly Garden we are planting this spring. So far we have planted butterflyweed, zinnia and sunflower seeds in upcycled strawberry, egg, and yogurt containers. We will be selling some flowers at the Eco-Boutiquo and planting the rest in our outdoor classroom. Here are some photos of the seedlings and the garden before its planted. Please check in for updates and photos.
                                       

Butterflyweed Seedlings:

Zinnias and Sunflower seedlings for sale at Eco-Boutiquo:

Phlox Seedlings:

"Before" Gardening: