From the classroom: Using Jenga to learn the parts of a habitat!

Last week in Mr. Brooks' The World Outside class, students demonstrated how habitats must have a balance of resources (food, water, shelter, and space) by playing Jenga. Check out the slideshow and video of the game below!

Best of Blooms

Here are some of the marvels of nature that we enjoyed as we journaled and worked in the gardens this semester. Click on the pictures to enlarge them.

Mountain Laurel and Texas Redbud

Texas Madrone

Blanco Crabapple

Unlike most of our plant species, Blue eyed grass didn't need reintroducing.

It's a holdover from our campus's cow pasture past.

Yucca, despined.

With the city starting to fine the school district for wildflowers in campus detention ponds,

our lawn maintenance crew was instructed to mow our bluebonnets which still needed 4-6 weeks for their seeds to mature.

One of our sweetest smelling flowers, the anacacho orchid blossoms attract a lot of honey bees.

Beebalm (a hummingbird nectar source), Blackfoot daisy, and Salvia greggi

Apache plume, Engelman's daisy, Coreopsis, and Winecup

Scarlet clematis