On Wednesday October 5, Ms. Hackett’s Grade 3, Ms. Sullivan's Grade 2 and Mrs. Dickson’s Grade 1 classes went out to plant our tulip garden. It was a cool and sunny morning with a temperature of 6C. Before we planted the tulip bulbs, we went through the checklist to make sure it was a good spot to plant. Every student got one tulip bulb to plant, so we planted 51 Red Emperor tulip bulbs. We planted the bulbs in the ground making sure that the pointy part was up and there was space between them. Then we covered them up with soil. Now we will wait for them to grow!

This is part of our Global Project with our partner school at St. John's Episcopal School in Dallas, Texas. The project is done through Journey North Citizen Science, and this is our 11th year as part of the project. Each school participating has to follow the same planting rules and use Red Emperor tulips. We compare our garden to the one in Texas and other gardens around the world to find out where spring arrives first and what causes some gardens to grow faster than others.