Parent update after lunch meeting

Hi everyone,

Our first meeting today was special for the TPG Garden Club.  Because you signed your daughter up, she will be part of the founding group of TPG gardeners, and will forever have a share in this really valuable new beginning at TPGS.  I plan to stay involved as much as possible from here on out, but I also hope it will become an integral part of the school which teachers and whole classes help maintain and further even independent of my involvement. I hope they will learn many valuable world/nature, science, spiritual, and social/personal lessons from being involved and get a lot of enrichment from it.

14 girls came to the meeting, including a few not-yet-registered.  Please bring $10 to school tomorrow or Thursday AM at the LATEST.  This is crucial for us to start out with as much materials as possible.  (I have to go buy things.)  Although the "work party" will be fun, we want to ideally set everything up in one shot, rather than doing initial set-up of the garden for weeks to come.  Plant a lot now, harvest more sooner.

SUNDAY WORK PARTY NOTES (I will probably remind you of this with an email on Motzai Shabbos): 

-Please arrive/drop off anytime after 8:30am.  We will be in the playground side of the Torah Prep Girls School.  I would love to have a couple parents stay and help for any amount of time, please let me know if you can!

-We will conclude our work party and make time for cleaning up and changing clothes before the Middos program, so the girls can go inside for that at 10:20am.
-Please bring: clothes for painting and dirt (can be skirt turned inside out,) hat with a brim, water bottle, complete Middos Program change of clothing!!!

-Optional: large and small paint brushes, small trowel (shovel), medium/large trowel, hammer, garden gloves

-If anyone wants to provide fruit, lemonade, cups, and pretzels or something like that for the group, bring what you want!

See you Sunday, and email with any questions.

Kate