One Hundred Daffodils Find a Home at Archway's Lower Campus

Archway School was 1 of almost 200 groups who signed up to plant a total of 50,000 King Alfred Daffodil Bulbs through a City of Oakland Community Service Project. Our students planted 100 bulbs around the lower campus. These bulbs will be added to the 150,000 planted over the last 3 years. Thanks to these participating groups, come spring, Oakland residents will be able to enjoy more than 200,000 bountiful yellow blooms on hillsides, parks, freeway entrances and exits, outside of schools, libraries and other public open spaces.

Archway students spent some time out of their day cleaning, digging, measuring and planting to make their school and their city more beautiful. Thanks Mr. Barry for arranging this community service project for the children. And thanks Ms Laurel for providing the photos.

Fall Carnival

On Lower Campus, on October 31st, in the final hour of the day, many of the children and Archway staff were in costume. The staff was hosting a variety of fun stations to celebrate the holiday “Carnival” style.

Ms. Kathy was swamped at her bottle making station. Here, children put shiny stuff, floaty stuff, bright stuff etc. in bottles of colored water to beautiful effect.

Ms. Sarah and Ms. Mel helped the children make ghost pops with Tootsie roll pops, markers and Kleenex. I tried to get a couple of ghost shots but they kept disappearing.

Ms. Laurel set up a station with markers, stickers, rub-on transfers and sundry items to decorate bags. These could then be used to stash treats earned at other stations.

Ms. Kym was handing out UNICEF boxes for Archway’s Annual donation. Our goal this year is $600.00. That’s just $5.00 per student . If you have not yet, but wish to contribute, you still can. Give your contribution to Ms. Kym by Monday Nov. 5th.

Mr. Scott was kept busy at the face painting station. It seemed he had many appreciative fans.

Ms. Kelly applied her own artistic talents to helping children select magical components and then build their own wand.

Mr. C.J., at the ghost bean bag throw, and Ms. Riva, at the spider toss, had non-stop customers. Hitting ghost targets taped on the wall and tossing a spider ring so that it landed and stuck in a web earned students a trip to a prize bin. I don’t even have to tell you that these two stations were popular.

Thanks to the Archway staff for giving that extra effort that goes such a long way. These events make wonderful memories for the children. They also provide opportunities for building relationships across grades that is so important in the Archway community.