Auctioning off artful trees at South Dorchester PS

South Dorchester Public School kindergarten pupil Alex Berkelmans, middle, auctioned off his artwork, a small tree, during the third annual Come Grow With Us Full-Day Kindergarten Art Auction held at the school on Monday morning, June 27. Helping out with the auction were kindergarten teachers Jennifer Shackelton (wife of Shackelton Auctions’ Mike Shackelton), left, and Carolyn Van Bommel. All of the pupils in the school’s full-day kindergarten classes made the trees and auctioned them off to their and their classmates parents that day to raise money to buy more equipment for the school’s outdoor learning environment.