DeGolyer Dads Club

This is the ongoing story of our Discovery Garden- a group of volunteers putting in a living “classroom” where once only sad grass wilted. We hope this blog will help inform our school community as well as the rest of you out in cyber land who think this may be something you may want to try. We will update regularly with our progress and hopefully someday soon with beautiful images of kids exploring nature, science and math.

Article source: http://degolyerdiscoverygarden.blogspot.com/2012/01/welcome-to-new-year.html

Today we planted hundreds of bulbs in the discovery garden as well as cleaned up the garden area in front of the school.

Although at the end of the day the garden looked no different than when we began the daffodils and iris  have all been planted with care and gently watered in the hope that they will make their grand entrance in the spring.

Lucky for us a DeGolyer neighbor and hopefully future DeGolyer grandparent, Lynn Hill, found out about our little project and donated the iris bulbs from her daughter’s yard…..
“I was told that the family who owned the house belonged to the Dallas Iris Society and had some prized bulbs in the garden.  We never found out which ones they were, but the luck of the draw may put DeGoyer in possession of show quality bulbs!” 

The iris bulbs were planted by the teacher lounge window as a splash of beauty before the kids head back into school. The daffodils will peek out from among all of the grasses.

Looking forward to the upcoming holidays and then getting back to the garden in the new year!

Article source: http://degolyerdiscoverygarden.blogspot.com/2011/12/final-push-of-2011.html

Working on the raised beds in the Veg. Garden There are no better group of parents than DeGolyer Parents! Another day of moving dirt, granite and taking back the vegetable garden.

In the vegetable garden we were able to  dig in the new dividers for the raised beds, uncover the rain barrels and designate a great location for compost as well as take back the supply corner from debris and make it a useful space again.

Veg Garden taking shape
Day Two of moving- adding more dirt granite
Raised Beds taking shape

View at the end of day, Sunday
View at the end of the day, Sunday

We are poised for the next build weekend to install the benches, finish the raised butterfly garden beds, plant some more of our landscaping (including bulbs) among other things.

Our Gazebo structure will be installed in the spring along with the vegetables and finishing touches.

Thanks to all the great parents and kids who helped this weekend. This will be a project we can all be proud of.

Article source: http://degolyerdiscoverygarden.blogspot.com/2011/11/family-build-day-sequal.html

This is the ongoing story of our Discovery Garden- a group of volunteers putting in a living “classroom” where once only sad grass wilted. We hope this blog will help inform our school community as well as the rest of you out in cyber land who think this may be something you may want to try. We will update regularly with our progress and hopefully someday soon with beautiful images of kids exploring nature, science and math.

Article source: http://degolyerdiscoverygarden.blogspot.com/2011/11/saturdays-family-build-day.html

This is the ongoing story of our Discovery Garden- a group of volunteers putting in a living “classroom” where once only sad grass wilted. We hope this blog will help inform our school community as well as the rest of you out in cyber land who think this may be something you may want to try. We will update regularly with our progress and hopefully someday soon with beautiful images of kids exploring nature, science and math.

Article source: http://degolyerdiscoverygarden.blogspot.com/2011/11/teachers-are-workers-too.html

What a beautiful cool day to pour concrete. Starting about 9:30 the truck arrived and around 13 yards of concrete was poured into the forms. We are expecting beautiful dry weather for the next few days as we make our final prep for the coming family build days!

Wow Wow Wow… I guess I should be used to the fact that this is really happening now but I am still amazed that a bunch of volunteers at a public school can pull this off!

Our kids, our teachers, our community are worth it!

Article source: http://degolyerdiscoverygarden.blogspot.com/2011/11/concrete.html

This is the ongoing story of our Discovery Garden- a group of volunteers putting in a living “classroom” where once only sad grass wilted. We hope this blog will help inform our school community as well as the rest of you out in cyber land who think this may be something you may want to try. We will update regularly with our progress and hopefully someday soon with beautiful images of kids exploring nature, science and math.

Article source: http://degolyerdiscoverygarden.blogspot.com/2011/11/birds-eye-view.html

The forms are finished and the re-bar is going in today for a Wednesday pour! Concrete pour- not rain (Please let the rain hold off on Wednesday).

Planning pow-wow this afternoon to make sure that we are ready for this weekend’s family build days.

Thanks to Kerrie Smith for the great picture and Todd Smith for heading up the concrete forms.

Article source: http://degolyerdiscoverygarden.blogspot.com/2011/11/rebar.html