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Grade 8 Reflections on Unity Campus
We planted a garden at Something great about Unity
the Unity campus. It’s large Is the big and spacious field
enough for us to have enough There are lots of opportunities
room for each class to have To play sports and be weird
its own section to plant lots of Lots of students play soccer
flowers and veggies! Some ex- And some just sit on the
amples of what we planted are: ground
spinach, peppergrass, beets, But the biggest shocker is that
and cilantro. Our facilities coor- There are no little kids running
dinator’s wife, Mrs. Byl, visited, ‘round
to tell us about plants. She –Naomi C. Gr. 8A
gave us good advice and a bag
full of seeds to plant. Then we At the beginning of the year,
planted the plants! They started I thought the Unity campus
to grow shortly after planting. would not be as good as
We realized that we needed they were hyping it up to
some way of watering our be. I remember on the first
plants and we discovered that day when I walked into the
we had this cool in-ground wa- classroom I instantly felt
tering system that still worked! better. I was used to having
The system was made up of a lots of posters on the walls
whole bunch of tiny sprinklers and different things around
that slowly squirted out water the room, but there was only
in a circle! Now that we have a the desks, the whiteboard,
way of watering, and our plants and the cubbies on the side
were planted, we just had to of the classroom. Usually, we
wait for the plants to grow! would have an assembly in
They did! The radishes, cilantro the morning but because of
and peppergrass were the first Covid we just stayed in our
to pop through the soil! The classroom. My favourite part
radishes were very ripe and of Unity is the big field. I am
ready! We took them out and proud to be a student at Unity.
they looked terrific! I tried some –Rose H. Gr. 8C
cilantro and it tasted exactly
like I hoped! The peppergrass Tick tock, tick tock
was growing fruitfully! They Goes the insanely slow clock
were growing like crazy! I tried Only five more minutes till the
some and they tasted okay. My fun begins
teacher says they are mostly We bring out the soccer ball
for salads. Right now, since it and we’re convinced we’re
is winter, the plants aren’t really going to win
growing anymore but that is One goal,two goals, three
okay. We can try again in the goals, four
spring when the temperatures One more and we tie the
are warmer and the ground score
thaws. But wait, no is that the cow
–Nella B. and Ana V. Gr. 8B bell I hear?
The only thing we can do is
shed a tear.
To a new building we go Back to class we go, oh no!
Without our masks? No! –Halie M. Gr. 8A
We wear them all hours of the
day All God’s people
Except for when we go out to United in God’s love
play Even through in the pandemic
–Emily BS Gr. 8A At Unity Road.
–Daniel K. Gr. 8C
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