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Pictures of the Week: Garden City USD 457 students keep busy with pollinator garden, summer learning and reading books

This edition of Pictures of the Week features Garden City USD 457's pollinator garden, summer learning and the district's Books-on-the-Bus program that brings books directly to children during the summer months to foster their reading skills. 

Photo center: Students in the Green Club at Garden City High School, Garden City USD 457, are doing a pollinator garden project in collaboration with the school’s Robotics Club. 

This garden helps teach the importance of pollinators and how to create a sustainable and healthy garden. Mitchelle Perez, pictured second from right, is a science teacher at Garden City High School, sponsor of the Green Club and the Garden City Middle School robotics coach.  

Photo left center: Rebecca Burnfin, a Garden City High School social studies instructor, is teaching summer school at Gertrude Walker Elementary School, Garden City USD 457. Pictured here, Burnfin and her students are working on writing and sounding out different words.   

Photo right center: Garden City USD 457 Books-on-the-Bus program brings books directly to children during the summer months to foster their reading skills. 

(Photos on X, Garden City Public Schools. Information provided by Roy Cessna, Garden City USD 457.) 

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Posted: Jun 18, 2025,
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