Two Spanish Language Public Service Announcements

Over the past several weeks, Spanish speaking students at Edison have been working closely with Spanish class students from Kalamazoo College. The goal: to produce Public Service Announcements for the benefit of the Spanish speaking community in the West Michigan region. Edison students were involved in every step of the process, from brainstorming script ideas to shooting video.

The two videos produced cover the topics of Type 2 Diabetes and Pesticides. Check them out here, pass along the link to others, and let us know if you know of someone that could benefit from seeing these.

Congratulations to Ms. Vo, Ms. Alia, and all the Edison students that made this project happen! We are so proud of the bilingual students at our school and the important job they did to get this information in a format that will benefit the Spanish speaking community!

La Diabetes Tipo 2 PSA from Anthony Gettig on Vimeo.

Pesticidas PSA from Anthony Gettig on Vimeo.

Service and Learning

We started the day with a great discussion of plants again. There are so many things to learn about plants! Later this week, we are going on a field trip to a place that uses plants that are grown locally. That will be fun!


Today we finished up at the house of the Grandpa of one of our students. We got a lot planted yesterday, but today we did the edging and added some wood chips.

We came back, cleaned up, and starting working on our memory book. Mr. Gettig showed us a website where you can build a picture book and add your own stories. We thought about the adventures we have already had in Garden Camp and started to put them together as story pages in our book. When the book is done, we will all get a copy of it to remember this summer by.

Speaking of books, the nice people from Kazoo Books came by and brought us three big stacks of books that are related to our summer program and our Magnet school theme. Because they looked for all of these books just for us, now the nice people at Kazoo Books understand better what we are learning at Edison and will let us know if they see more books that would be good for us!

After lunch and reading, we had another great lesson from Mr. Johnson and Miss Smith. They are great teachers and keep our attention. They really make learning about plants fun!

We finished the day with a snack and listening to our book being read to us. Tomorrow, we will learn more about plants we eat and why it is good to eat locally grown food.

Week 3 is underway!

We started week three of Garden Camp today!

After a healthy breakfast, we wrote in our journals and answered two questions: what are the parts of the plant we eat? Why do we eat plants?

Plants have leaves, roots, a stem, seeds, flowers, and sometimes fruit. We eat plants to help keep us healthy. They have many nutrients that people need.

We pulled weeds in the garden today. It is important to pull the weeds so that the plants get all the nutrition, not the weed. We also pulled weeds in front of the building to help our school continue to look great!


We did some planting at one of our neighbors, who is also the grandad of one of us at garden camp!

After lunch and free time, we spent time reading silently. Then Mr. Johnson shared with us what the parts of plants do. There’s a lot going on in there!

Then we cleaned up, watered the garden one more time, and finished the day listening to Miss Smith read out loud to us.

Here is a video of today:



Garden Camp at Edison rocks!