US Airforce, USFWS and PTA volunteers trimming and getting inspired by nature

It takes a team to maintain the schoolyard habitat, and Curren is fortunate to have generous volunteers that give their time and muscle making our outdoor classroom ready for teachers, students and the new school year! Some volunteers even got inspired by the beauty of nature while working! Thank you volunteers! Curren is a beautiful and happy place because of you!

Enjoying Beautiful Flowering Native Plants

After meeting with the awesome John Cooper to discuss future plans for benches, tables, path and retaining wall. The flowers looked too beautiful to go unnoticed!

CA sunflower 

Ceanothus

White flowering currant

White Sage

CA Fuscia

Toyon

Milkweed

Elderberry 

Did you know that we have three plants native to the Channel Islands in our Curren SYH?

Go see if you can find all three plants native to Channel Islands in our front Schoolyard Habitat! Good luck!

Channel Island Coral Bells

Catalina Island Cherry

Santa Cruz Island Ironwood

Welcome to Curren Schoolyard Habitat Science Journal!

Welcome to our thriving Schoolyard Habit filled with native plants, animals, students, teachers and families. This is a place of science and discovery where investigation of natural phenomena happen. A place of wonder and exploration. A place to connect with and appreciate. A place where you belong. 

It is a gift to this generation and the next, a tribute to the native habitat which we share with the animals and plants in our community.  As we have traveled on this journey with these plants during the past four years, we have marveled in nature's beauty, yet have kept most of these cherished scientific moments to ourselves. From now on, we will share our joy of science and nature with you. We hope you also connect with this humble yet astonishing place.