Amy Smallwood

"Emerald City Garden & Market - Growing Success" is a project developed by Smallwood to provide many opportunities to integrate reading, writing, and the arts for students at Grace Hill Elementary School. With community involvement, the project will look at the business side of agriculture. The "Garden" will also provide a great opportunity for more parental and volunteer involvement. Students will learn through a variety of hands-on activities. They will plant and care for the garden, read books about gardening, keep a journal, and create works of art based on the garden. The students will also measure, graph and look at the garden under microscopes, start a business, produce products from garden items, save and reinvest money, and make a donation to charity. Smallwood hopes that the students will learn many valuable character-building traits in the process. She lives in Rogers.