POSTED: December 20, 2009

Maui News Community Page-Thank you Letters 12/20/09

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I want to thank Martha Vockrodt and the Friends of the D.T. Fleming Arboretum so very much for the great day my 5th-graders and I had at the Fleming Arboretum.

Haleakala Waldorf School provides educational experiences through participation, and you gave that plus a good deal of aloha spirit. I think we were both very pleased by how well the children remembered the important things you shared.

They shared their excitement with everyone on campus when we returned, and were able to describe the plants they won from your ingenious quiz time. Most importantly, you gave them an awareness of the plants of this land and the balance all life requires. The children are dedicated to the propagation of the endangered plants you described so well. Your passion and enthusiasm inspired them.

A teacher only can pray to have a day as productive and beautiful as what you and the beauty of Pu'u Mahoe provided. The experience is alive and a part of the children. They already look forward to our next trip, when we can work, clear and, we hope, share plants propagated from the seeds you gave, of na'u ,'ohe, naio and pili grass.

We have begun a rich educational exchange between Fleming Arboretum and Haleakala Waldorf School, and I look forward to continuing it through the years.

Virginia Fish

Fifth-grade teacher

Haleakala Waldorf School

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