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G R O W I N G A R E A D I N G G A R D E N

Once upon a time, there was an old computer lab . . .

that needed a little sprucing up.

• Mrs. Wyatt knew her

students would appreciate a cheery, quiet place to fall into a story. She planted the seed of an idea with

• Mr. Modaff, the

PTO, GMS SLT, BFEE, and many talented people.

The Buildings & Grounds Department took away a whiteboard, some wires and other ugly debris. They painted blue skies. Mr. & Mrs. Wyatt and Hannah Ahnen camouflaged the cupboards.

Thanks to

• Mrs. Ahnen’s

incredible talent, a great big tree began to grow in this space!

Third-graders gave the birds a place to live in that tree.

• Mrs. Spence,
• Mrs. Nicely,

& Mrs. Agro helped the Kinder- gartners create a lovely Book Cottage.

The Batavia Foundation for Educational Excellence seeded the lawn and bought some nice

• flowers. The Book

Cottage passed the

• inspection. (Full

Disclosure: The building inspector is related to

• Mrs. Wyatt.)

• Ms. Pappanduros planted some

bushes, and every child in the school helped them to bud out.

• Mrs. Wyatt fenced in the Garden and made a flowery

hide-away with funds from the School Leadership Team.

• Ms. Hubbard sewed cushions for wicker furniture that was

purchased by the PTO.

• Ms. Hubbard couldn’t “leave”

it at that, so she made pillows for this garden spot.

As the garden grew, it attracted all sorts of insects - dragonflies, caterpillars, butterflies, ladybugs . . .

With a lot of help from the PTO, more seating started sprouting up!

And in the end, there was a wonderful, enchanted place

where many, many children would enjoy stories happily ever after.

Only the beginning ...