Rain…

feel it on my finger tips, hear on my window pane..

Students are still waiting for the rain to fully stop at Charles White before they can come to the garden and explore.  Our indoor lesson was about exotic and tropical  vegetables  and plants. With the aid of some cards with descriptions, students learned that there is a huge variety of plants that can be eaten and are very nutritious than some of the vegetables and fruits we are accustomed to eat. At the end of the lesson, we played a game where students picked a card, put it on their forehead and described what fruit or vegetable they were without giving out the name. Then, the last two classes came outside, they helped harvest cauliflowers, snow peas and broccoli and participated in the same game but with they had to describe fruits and  vegetables they seldom ate.

Fresh produce from the wet garden.

Part of the plant poster designed by 1st graders