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Event Blog Post: Harvest Night

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The elementary school I work at, S.D. Barnes has an annual Harvest Night during the end of October. My old first grade teacher asked me if I wanted to plan some activities with her and volunteer to run them during the event. The event was located at Salisbury Farm in Johnston where there is a corn maze for the children to go through. When I got in contact with the farm, I asked them if they had any fun games that they played in the corn maze. They usually do a scavenger hunt to find hole punches for your paper but I wanted to be creative. I got Halloween pencils, erasers, and stamps and hid them all in the maze for students to find. We did groups of about six and had to only let a few groups in at a time. The teachers that went each took a group into the maze. I was amazed to see how many students actually attended with their parents. Pizza was donated from East Coast pizza and our principle handed that out to families. They had raffles and raffle tickets near the concession stand w
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Event Blog Post: Outdoor Classroom

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Sarah Dyer Barnes Elementary School recently proposed a grant to build an outdoor classroom for all the students in kindergarten through fifth grade. $3,000 dollars was donated to the school to purchase materials to build and supplies to use. The building of the classroom happened this year and we had the ribbon ceremony for it as well. I went to elementary school at Barnes thirteen years ago. Getting a job there has been so much fun with so many different learning opportunities. I decided to get on board with building the outdoor classroom. Since I am only there for this school year, I wanted to leave my mark on the school. For three Saturdays in September, teachers, parents, students, and myself worked to build this classroom for others. We had to spread the soil all over the area. We got logs donated for seating and rearranged them in a circle (camp fire style). We made a pathway to the classroom with a wooden door students could walk through. Lastly, we planted a garden with all
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