East Elementary Garden Club Christmas

0:01 East Elementary kicked off the holiday season on Friday evening with a festive garden club celebration. Families

0:06 enjoyed cookies, hot chocolate, and a glowing outdoor light display in honor of the school's young gardeners. The

0:12 event capped off a busy semester for the garden club. After cocoa in the

0:16 lunchroom, families walked through the outdoor classroom where twinkling lights turned the garden into a whimsical

0:21 winter walkway. This fall, students installed a donated waterfall and pond from ProWorks, moved the sensory garden,

0:28 created new flower beds, planted vines, and even turned their old pond into a

0:33 mini pond. Students say the semester was full of learning and laughs. From digging up more than 100 worms to

0:39 accidentally harvesting lofah as zucchini and nearly sending them to the lunchroom, two East Elementary fifth

0:45 graders, Henley Nicholas and Eden Khan, shared what they most enjoy about Garden Club. Garden Club is really nice. My

0:52 granny is 94 and she has a garden in her backyard and I like to help her in it.

0:57 It's really fun and I like seeing all the plants in the wild. >> Families explored the glowing garden

1:04 Friday night where lights wrapped around planter boxes, ornaments, decorated climbing vines, and inflatable critters

1:11 greeted visitors. Students say they're already excited for spring, especially the annual garden baby shower in April.

1:19 The garden club will return next semester and students say they're ready to get their hands back in the dirt.

1:24 This has been Annabelle House with Cullman today.