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Students in Kelly Dillon’s fourth grade class at Roanoke Avenue Elementary School in Riverhead spent an afternoon outside beautifying their school’s Star Garden. The students removed debris, weeded and added some new colorful flowers to the garden.

(Photo: Riverhead Central School District)
Kelly Dillon’s fourth grade class at Roanoke Avenue Elementary School enjoyed the spring weather by making improvements to their school’s Star Garden

(Photo: Riverhead Central School District)
The students removed debris, dug up weeds and planted colorful new flowers

(Photo: Riverhead Central School District)
They also added a garden flag purchased with the funds they had raised through a recycling campaign

(Photo: Riverhead Central School District)
The garden cleaning culminated a unit on persuasive writing in which the students expressed their thoughts on ways they can help the earth