Mayor Lyman Amsden reads the Arbor Day Proclamation at Broadus Elementary School last week. Also pictured is Broadus Tree Board Member Margaret Scoles.
By Mayor M. Lyman Amsden
After a brief presentation about Arbor Day by Tree Board members and a lively quiz about trees, the students shared poetry about trees. Mrs. Emmons' first graders read the poem "Growth of a Tree" in unison.
They also created tree artwork which will be displayed in the window of the International Organic Inspectors Association downtown. The first grade reading was followed by the reading of a poem by at least one student selected in each class --Rickee Bilbrey (2nd grade); Carter D'Amico and Courtney Kuhbacher (3rd grade); Sammy Threefingers-Hart (4th grade), and Kassie Hagedorn (6th grade).
The morning was spent planting trees at Cliff Park (next to the clinic) along the walking trail. Don Birkholz, Tree Board member, dug the holes and helped the students plant the trees with compost and water. Seven trees were planted, with each class planting a different tree and naming it. Trees included lanceolate cottonwood, flowering plum, crabapple, Canadian red chokecherry, Hot Wings Tartarian maple, American linden, and Wichita blue juniper.
The celebration ended with tree cookies and wood pencils for everyone. Tree Board members who helped with the celebration were Don, Kathy Roberts, Kelda Page, and Margaret Scoles. Rain came the following day - a perfect end to the celebration. The Arbor Day celebration was delayed for a week because there was no school on the last Friday of April, which is the official date each year. Funds for the tree purchase and celebration were provided by grant funds from the DNRC. The Town of Broadus has been a Tree City USA since 1999, maintaining recertification each year, and is therefore eligible each year to apply for a $750 grant to use for the celebration.
2nd Grade (this was written in the shape of a tree)
by Rickee Bilbrey
Trees
smell beautiful,
blooming, flowering, budding
make delicious sweet treats
Cherry Trees
3rd grade poems
Always planting trees on this day
Roots going into the ground
Big trees about to grow soon
Oxygen flying through
Round and round people planting
by Carter D'Amico
Kinds of trees, Pine trees,
coconut trees, sap trees,
lilac trees, evergreen trees.
Looks, Sharp, beautiful,
smooth, rough.
Bark, Roots, take in sunlight,
water, Bark covers like a shirt
Size, Large, medium, small.
Paper, made from trees.
by Courtney Kuhbacher.
4th Grade Arbor Day Poem
Growing Trees
Falling Trees
Growing trees, growing trees
Oak, Pine, Birch, Elm, Cedar, Evergreen
Growing trees, growing trees
Trees are growing, growing, growing
Roots reach low as branches reach high
Trees are growing, growing, growing
New trees are growing, growing, growing
Seeds are falling and seedlings are growing
New trees are growing, growing, growing
Growing seedlings, growing seedlings
Growing through the seasons and getting bark
Growing seedlings, growing seedlings
Falling trees, falling trees
The tree has been made into The New York Times
Falling trees, falling trees
By Sammie Threefingers-Hart
Trees
By Kassie L Hagedorn
6th grade
Tall, majestic wood
Watching over the vast forest
Standing tall always
Green beautiful leaves
Household of animal kin
Rough bark to protect
Reaching the blue sky
Limbs holding it all up
Forever strong
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