Mission Avenue Open provides students a unique, hands-on education designed to make a difference locally and anywhere life may lead our students. This commitment to hands on learning and community service is well reflected by our school motto from Confucius; “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand”.
The PTA Garden Committee is working to provide a true school garden and learning area where the entire school community can benefit. Currently there are six garden boxes that are able to be used by teachers and classes for gardening, lessons and activities in the lower grades. The Mission Avenue School Garden will allow students in all grade levels to have access to these hands-on lessons to make learning more meaningful, applicable, and enriching. Students will be able to develop a deeper understanding of gardening, biomes, ecosystems and more as they build their knowledge from year to year. It will allow teachers to plan cross grade level and long-range STEM lessons for students. It will provide school-wide opportunities for service learning projects during the planting and harvest time. The school garden will also be able to provide teachers, staff, students, and parents a place to gather, work together, and enjoy as part of the greater school community.
At Mission, the special, unique sense of community is often referred to as “Mission Magic.” This project broadens the opportunities that teachers and students have to apply learning to growing food. Growing, harvesting, and sharing food strengthens a community and provides an opportunity for families to gather together; adding to the unique sense of community that is “Mission Magic.”
View the high res drawing here! (You can get a closer look in the MP room.)
