On February 24, 2010, the students and staff of Sierra School at Eastern – Lower (formerly Sierra School at Edison) officially “Replanted their Roots” at their beautiful new campus located at 1150 Eastern Avenue in Sacramento, California.  With parents and visitors from various outside agencies looking on, students from each classroom planted acorns from the Edison campus to symbolize their new beginning, all while honoring the rich history Sierra School encompasses.

Preparing for the ceremony was a wonderful experience within its self.  The students participated in a “campus clean-up” day, demonstrating their pride in their new school site.  Additionally, each classroom decorated their own terracotta pot in which the acorns were eventually planted.  Finally, students decorated leaf and acorn-shaped cookies and packaged them with leaf-shaped tags, also decorated by the students, for the visitors to take home and enjoy.

The students were very involved with the ceremony, as well.  Students from Classroom #9 lead the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance and the students from Classroom #7 provided a touching performance with each student listing what they appreciated most about their new campus.  The event concluded with Katie Hancock, Regional Director for Sierra School, discussing why roots are important and how the individual students of Sierra at Eastern make the school a wonderful “garden.”  Once the ceremony was over, visitors enjoyed refreshments and took tours of the beautiful classrooms.   Overall, it was an exceptional event and all the staff and students of Sierra School at Eastern are ecstatic to have an amazing new facility in which to grow.

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