Continuing our sensory lesson, we spent this week exploring our sense of sight and touch. Lessons revolved around using a very gentle touch with animals and when is best to use only the sense of sight. We’ve found an abundance of caterpillars and not all are safe to touch! Mushrooms are another wild forest find where sight is the best sense to use; not only because of potentially poisonous species, but also because fungi is an important food for wildlife.
During Friday’s Garden Day, students weeded 3 raised beds, harvested fresh carrots, planted cabbage, collard greens, and kale, hulled black beans, collected American Beautyberry berries, and observed a beautiful tiger swallowtail caterpillar brought in a jar from Deanna’s home garden.
Fruits and veggies of the week included pickled beets, pickled okra, steamed broccoli, raw broccoli, steamed carrots, raw carrots, dried medjool dates, apples, mandarine oranges, and muscadines. Comparing cooked and raw vegetables was a fun experience!
Thank you to parents, Kristin and Marilyn, as well as UGA interns, Madison and Cat, for helping us in the forest!
