Third graders started by planting marigold seeds in compostable pots, adding water to them and placing plastic sandwich bags over them to create tiny greenhouses.
Third grade teacher April Campbell pours marigold seeds into Marshall Austreng’s hand during class at Cathedral School in Superior on Friday, April 22, 2022. The class planted seeds in cups on Earth Day.
SUPERIOR — Third grade students in April Campbell's class at Cathedral School got to do a couple special projects to celebrate Earth Day on Friday, April 22.
The class started by planting marigold seeds in compostable pots, adding water to them and placing plastic sandwich bags over them to create tiny greenhouses.
Then they bundled up and walked across the street to the flower beds behind the Cathedral of Christ the King. The students picked trash out of the beds and did other prep work like digging old moss out of the beds.
Elsa Strand covers her freshly watered marigold seed to make a tiny greenhouse in April Campbell’s third grade class at Cathedral School in Superior on Earth Day, Friday, April 22, 2022.
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April Campbell, upper right, watches over her third grade class as they dig up the soil and clean up one of the flower beds outside of the Cathedral of Christ the King on Earth Day, Friday, April 22, 2022. The Cathedral School students also planted some seeds that they will grow in their class until it gets nicer outside.
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A student in April Campbell’s third grade class at Cathedral School pulls seeds from a dried flower in class on Earth Day, Friday, April 22, 2022.
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Third grade teacher April Campbell helps Brayah Kenville get potting soil during class at Cathedral School in Superior on Earth Day, Friday, April 22, 2022.
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Orion Pearson looks closely for any moisture in the bag he placed over his freshly watered seed in April Campbell’s third grade class at Cathedral School in Superior on Earth Day, Friday, April 22, 2022. Pearson was hoping to see evidence of the water cycle beginning in his bag.
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April Campbell, left, a third grade teacher at Cathedral School, pours marigold seeds into Emily Walker’s hand during class in Superior on Earth Day, Friday, April 22, 2022.
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Adalyn Flaherty giggles as she looks over her freshly planted seeds in April Campbell’s third grade class at Cathedral School in Superior on Earth Day, Friday, April 22, 2022.
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Students in April Campbell’s third grade class at Cathedral School in Superior dig up the soil in one of the flower beds outside of Cathedral of Christ the King on Earth Day, Friday, April 22, 2022. The Cathedral School students also planted some seeds that they will grow in their class until it gets nicer outside.
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This story was updated at 10:47 a.m. with the correct names of two of the children pictured. It was originally posted at 10:01 a.m. The Telegram regrets the error.
Jed Carlson joined the Superior Telegram in February 2001 as a photographer. He grew up in Willmar, Minnesota. He graduated from Ridgewater Community College in Willmar, then from Minnesota State Moorhead with a major in mass communications with an emphasis in photojournalism.
