GCHS Butterfly Garden

Let's plant a garden! Check here for updates, pictures, and ways you can get involved. I am lucky as a teacher to have such great, kind, intelligent students.

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I am so incredibly proud of my students. Students designed and built this garden at our school. Students will plant in the garden in a few weeks. A butterfly has already visited us while building, we hope it tells their friends. Thanks to everyone that helped! #d127getsreal

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1080 pumpkins! What a great day!

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Yay pumpkin recycling!

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Over 300 pumpkins so far! Come join us!

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This butterfly bush is out of control!

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Awesome students helped clean up the garden. A butterfly visited us while we were there. Today is a good day. #d127getsreal

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The drought can't keep us down! Established native plants can help the butterflies and keeping your garden looking nice! #stillrainthough

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First of hopefully many visitors this year.

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Students show up, and check out the glow up! The butterfly garden looks so much better after a year of neglect. #d127getsreal

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Aaaaaand we're back! Thanks so much to my three students who started renovating the garden. Thanks for all your help!

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An unbelievable turnout. We are filled to capacity! We also won a pumpkin smashing trophy for last year! What a day. #pumpkinsmash

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Incredible! We have over 300 pumpkins off to be composted. #pumpkinsmash

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I'm so happy to continue the work students started last year. Bring your pumpkins to the Grayslake Library to be composted. #pumpkinsmash #d127getsreal

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Green your Halloween! Please consider bringing pumpkins to compost to the Grayslake Library 11/7 8am-12pm. #pumpkinsmash

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277 pumpkins smashed and ready for compost! #d127getsreal #pumpkinsmash

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Swing away #pumpkinsmash

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Pumpkin recycling at the library! Bring your pumpkins until noon. #d127getsreal #pumpkinsmash

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Composty the pumpkin hopes you can bring your pumpkin to the library on Saturday from 9 to noon!

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A student is putting on this event! Please bring pumpkins to the Grayslake Library on November 2nd, 9am-12pm to get them composted. #d127getsreal #pumpkinsmash

[Melissa Thurlwell @GCHSThurlwell]

ESL teacher, Chelsey Hernandez, is working with her students to help with the @GCHSButterfly garden while teaching them important vocabulary related to environmental science. #D127getsreal #ramslife

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Butterflies on the coneflowers