Hawthorne Elementary

Master Naturalists will assist with developing/leading a Junior Master Naturalist program, provide maintenance in the school’s native plant pollinator garden, and host outreach events.

The focus of the JrMN program is to serve school children by providing nature-based education and activities. Garden will be used for pollinator habitat education and promotion of a native habitat.  The focus of the maintenance work is to provide knowledge and skills with planting and maintaining native plants.  The focus of the outreach is to provide nature education for school events utilizing NTMN trunks.

Project Co-Leads:

• Sara Hutchings
• Shelby Smith (JrMN)
• Ginger Greatens (wildscape/outreach)

2024 Activities – 12 volunteers with 246 hours of service performed

• Concluded the very successful 2023-24 Jr. Master Naturalists school year with a slide show.
• Changed the name of Jr. Master Naturalists to Young Naturalists. Kevin Church designed a new patch that were ironed onto the dayglow green vests. We only had fourth grade this year.
• Hawthorne Elementary is either paying for a bus or the parents are transporting for field trips. TRAC will provide transportation for a field trip there in the spring. JBS provided transportation in the fall.
• We lost our anchor teacher at Hawthorne. The teacher who has taken on the club is a classroom teacher.  I’m hoping the stress isn’t too much and she continues to sponsor us.
• These classes are being presented at no charge to the participants.
• We also did educational sessions (seed ball making, flower dissection, pollinator life cycle activities) with their garden club and outreach booths at family/school events in the spring