Planting Trees with Sycamore High School Environmental Club

SYCAMORE, Ill. -- On April 21, the SEAYLP group visited Sycamore High School and later planted trees with the school's Environmental Club in Afton Prairie Forest Preserve near DeKalb. When we arrived at Sycamore High School, we were greeted by the high school staff and members of the school's Environmental Club, who were our hosts for the day. Everyone was so friendly.

Front entrance to Sycamore High School

At the school, we first did some ice-breaker exercises in class. Then we were taken on a tour of the whole school by Environmental Club members and had lunch.

Students walking down one of the many hallways at Sycamore High School

Typical classroom at Sycamore High School

People were very friendly, and told us all about their school, their subjects, school facilities, clubs, and so many other interesting things.

Art classroom at Sycamore High

Hallway display case shows off student artwork

The library at SHS

After touring the school, we went by bus with the club to the Afton Prairie Forest Preserve near DeKalb, about 20 minutes from Sycamore, for a prairie restoration project. There we learned how to plant new trees.

Afton Prairie staff with the trees we are going to plant this day

Learning how to plant trees and small plants at Afton Prairie



Preparing the soil to plant

We had so much fun today and learned a lot of geographic knowledge. We thank the Environmental Club and Afton Praire Forest Preserve staff for making our day!

Atikah Amalia (Indonesia) and Fatin Jamjuree (Thailand)