Culture Trip: Garfeld Park Conservatory

A defining characteristic of the College Readiness program for participating 8th graders is the Friday outing. Most Fridays we take a trip that relates to one of "4 C's:" College, Career, Culture, and Community Service.

A friend of Circle suggested that, rather than having staff tell about these trips, we should ask College Readiness scholars to post a blog entry following each outing, and I (Dan) thought that made great sense.

Below, you'll find our first, very brief, student-written trip summary, along with some pictures from our recent "Culture" trip to Garfield Park Conservatory:

On the field trip there were many things that I learned and that I found interesting. One was the Double coconut. The double coconut is the largest kind of palm growing under glass. I roamed around the building and took pictures of the different sights that i enjoyed. There were different kinds of flowers and palm trees of different kinds of colors.