To keep your vegetables safe from cold and freezing temperatures, you'll need to insulate them with some kind of shelter. Whichever kind of shelter you use, make sure you put it up before the first frost. Otherwise, your vegetables may be damaged from the cold.  One kind of shelter you can use is a mini tunnel that goes over your vegetables. You can find a mini tunnel at your local gardening center, or you can make your own using metal hoops and a row cover.  Not sure when your first frost is? Look online to find the average first frost date for your area. Straw-bale cold frames are shelters made with straw bales that help insulate plants from the cold. To make your frames, surround your garden beds with straw bales so they’re closed off. Then, lay an old door, window, or piece of polycarbonate over the top of the bales or straw to seal the frame. To harvest the vegetables in your cold frames, just lift the top and pull out the vegetables inside. Cloches are plastic covers that can be placed over plants. You can cover small vegetables with store-bought cloches, or you can make your own for larger garden beds. To make your own cloches, surround your vegetables with posts and slide a plastic garbage bag over them. Before the first frost, cover the ground around your root vegetables with 1–2 feet (0.30–0.61 m) of mulch. Then, lay a sheet or gardening row cover over the mulch and root vegetables to trap in the warmth.  Popular types of mulch you can use are shredded leaves, shredded straw, and shredded bark. When you’re ready to harvest your root vegetables, you can just lift up the sheet or row cover and dig them out of the ground.
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One-sentence summary -- Install a shelter to cover your vegetables before the first frost. Build straw-bale cold frames to protect leafy greens and brassicas. Use cloches to shelter greens and brassicas as an alternative to a frame. Lay down a thick layer of mulch to protect root vegetables from the cold.


With these events, parents can get a few hours rest and quiet by getting the kids out of the house for a while. Have teachers and parent volunteers chaperone as parents pay a fee to drop off their kids for a few hours or the whole night at the school’s gym, cafeteria or other large room. Feed the kids dinner, play games or screen a movie, and be sure that parents bring sleeping supplies if it’s a sleepover. Charge $10 per child and you’ll make a lot of money very quickly! You can hold a talent show for teachers and the principal, but said employees must first get funding by asking their students for donations, like a walk-a-thon. Any student that pays gets free admission to the talent show for them and their family. Alternatively, you can have the principals or teachers agree to do entertaining acts in response to how much money is raised by the student body. For example, at $500 the teachers all have to wear silly hats for a week, at $1,000 the teachers have to wear their underwear on the outside for a week, at $1,500 the Principals will have a bad-singing duel, etc. Your students will fall over themselves at the chance to make their superiors look silly. Get a donation from a sponsor or create one to use as a grand prize. Then sell small rubber ducks to families or students over the course of a week, a month, or just in one evening. These families will be given a number which will be put on the duck (they can even customize their duck, if you want). Now hold a race, where the ducks are placed on any body of flowing water. Whichever duck gets to the finish line first wins a prize for the family who purchased it. Everyone else can take their ducks home, so no one goes home empty-handed. You can do an alternative duck game where all of the ducks are floated on top of a large water surface, such as a kiddie pool. One duck will have a star drawn on the bottom. People pay to pick a duck and whoever picks the star wins the prize. This can be played multiple times, so long as you have prizes to hand out. Get donations of empty soup cans and remove all labels and sand down rough or sharp edges. These will serve as a flower pot. Then, have kids paint or decorate the outside of the cans. Once you have your flower pots ready, fill them with dirt and help the kids plant and grow herbs, flowers, etc. Once they're decently sized, hold a sale for everyone in the community to come and buy the plants. Auction off or sell the chance to paint or decorate the student seats. Families will pay to create a totally custom chair that their child can sit in and will act as a symbol of their donation for years to come. Way better and less boring than brick engraving! You can even get local hardware stores to donate spray paint and other appropriate paints, as well as stencils and other tools that can be used to customize the chairs.
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One-sentence summary -- Hold a Parent’s Night Out or sleepover. Turn your staff into entertainment. Have a Rubber Duck Game. Grow your green. Hold a chair auction or sale.


To rewrite a whole number as a fraction, simply place the whole number over 1. This will make an improper fraction. For example, if you have 5 x 8/10, put the 5 over 1. You should now have 5/1 x 8/10. Remember that the numerators are the numbers above the lines. Write the result and place a line below it. In the example, 5/1 x 8/10, multiply 5 by 8 to get 40. Now you can multiply the numbers below the lines to get your denominator. You should now have an answer to your equation that's in fraction form. For example, if you're multiplying 5/1 x 8/10, multiply 1 by 10 to get 10. Place this below the line to get an answer of 40/10. Because your answer will probably be an improper fraction, simplify the answer to its lowest terms. Divide the numerator by the denominator to get a simplified result.  To reduce 40/10, divide 40 by 10 to get 4 as your new answer. In many cases, you'll get a mixed number since the answer will have a remainder.
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One-sentence summary --
Rewrite the whole number as a fraction. Multiply the numerators of the two fractions. Multiply the denominators of the two fractions. Reduce the answer if possible.