And the most popular design is...

Fourth Graders submitted designs for reusable water bottles.  We had over 50 submissions. All had a winning message...reusable bottles are better for the Earth. But one had the most votes at Ecorama.  Here are the five finalists.

Ida

Zara

Clover

Avi

William

Which would you vote for?  (Zara's was the most popular.)

Josh's & Cora's 4th Graders Display Posters at Ecorama

10 different posters with a similar message: With ingenuity,  we can solve the problem of polluted waterways. 

 Inspired by Diana Balmori's floating island Grownonus.

Forest Growers: Second Graders Plant American Chestnut Trees

Four chestnut trees traveling to the park by bus.

Bart Chezar and the Prospect Park Alliance arborist, Howard Goldstein, made it possible for our chestnut trees to be planted by BNS students. Amanda's class planted trees for the entire grade in a sectioned off area of Prospect Park between 15th and 14th Streets along Prospect Park West. 

Howard Goldstein, arborist, Prospect Park Alliance Natural Resource Crew

Is that Greta's and Andrew's tree?

Barbara Jaffess

Cady, a member of PP Alliance Crew

Peter, another PP Alliance crew member

 Stopping to eat lunch in the shade of a nearby Native American Elm.

Want to spot the tree? Just walk along path between 9th Street and 5th Street.

Bart helping kids spot the American Chestnut.

Timothy next to the native tree.

Fruit with catkin still attached

 Today's tree nursery--tomorrow's forest.

   Link to earlier entry.