TRY THIS
By Heather Aulisio
ant some tips on how to put your best effort forward for the start of the new school year? A new year may equal a new you! Read on to see if you can relate to some of these situations and how you can handle them in a new and improved way.
Learn to Compost
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Home Composting Workshop Learn the how’s and why’s of home composting, proper soil preparation and management, mulching and grasscycling. Participants take home a free wire compost bin and a booklet on home composting. Vermicomposting Workshop Learn how red wiggler can turn your raw kitchen scraps into valuable garden compost. Bring your bin and we’ll supply the worms. Bokashi Workshop Learn this Japanese method of total food composting. Date Sat, Sept 7 Sat, Sept 14 Sat, Sept 21 Sat, Sept 21 Sat, Sept 28 Sat, Oct 5 Sat, Oct 5 Sat, Oct 12 Sat, Oct 19 Sat, Oct 19 Sat, Oct 26 Workshop Gardening/Composting Home Composting Gardening/Composting Home Composting Container Gardening Gardening/Composting Bokashi Home Composting Gardening/Composting Home Composting Home Composting
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Home Composting Workshops
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Papers left at school
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Your teacher gives you papers for your parents to sign or hands out your homework at the end of class. You stuff it in your desk and continue to chat with your classmates. You are sure that you will remember to bring it home by the time you pull out your folder and notebook at dismissal. Before you know it, you are riding the bus home and that squished paper is still hanging out in your desk. You decide to go home and tell your parents you have no homework or never received any of the important papers you needed to get signed after your teacher sends a note home the next day (sound familiar?) asking for them.
Compost Garden Now that you know how to make the Sat, Nov 2 Gardening/Composting compost, this advanced class teaches you WEAR PROPER HEAD GEAR. USE YOUR BRAIN AND AL WAYS real Sun, Nov 3 Home Composting world applications for your lawn & garden. FOR MORE SPORTS SAFETY TIPS,VISIT: Sat, Nov 9 Vermicomposting (Maximum number of 20 students per class) Sat, Nov 9 Home Composting
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As soon as you get an important paper or piece of homework, put it in your folder immediately! In fact, inside your folder you could label each side, “Leave at Home” or “Return to School.” It literally takes five seconds to do this simple task, which will also help you remember what needs to be returned and what does not. It will also not leave you in an uncomfortable situation at home where you feel you have to make up a story that will probably only result in you getting busted for your fib. Plus, even if you do remember to bring home your
Here2Grow Preschool provides your child quality education, loving care, and building blocks leading to the development of a healthy lifestyle. Our Afterschool (K-6th grade) features thematic academics, and homework assistance, combined with swimming, fitness classes, sports, and games.
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