FogHorn April 20, 2017  -  HEAL Children's Visit 

Five members of the class of about twenty four students were chosen to address the Rotary Club. Each briefly gave their name and what they most liked about the HEAL program then thanked us. It was a moving tribute especially the song they all sang up in the front of the meeting room. I believe the Song was based on the Tom Paxton song; This World Goes 'Round and 'Round. 

Each verse started with the students pantomiming the part of the plant covered such as the roots, stems, leaves, flowers etc. and then singing the verse in unison. It was a wonderful presentation and much appreciated by all present.

 

The HEAL instructor Miss Cay gave a bit of background and brokered the Question and Answer session from which we learned there was some aversion to handling slugs and snails, that they loved their plants and that some of the children had indeed come to like kale after being introduced to it in the program. Each student was given our Speaker's Gift of a canvas shopping bag with a map of the coast printed upon it. The bags were carried back to Hatch School by their teacher Miss Benson to be distributed at the end of the day. This was to avoid them being lost, used as weapons, filled with found objects, used as hats or other creative uses that surely would have been devised on their six block trek. The weather was fine for a walk out of doors, and the students were enjoying their day on the town.