By Michele Smith
The Times
Helping Kids Eat Better
Columbia County Health Dept. presents veggies and fruits to K-1 students
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Vickie Hodgson, from the Columbia County Health Department (standing), gives presentation on veggies and fruits to Ms. Wamble's K-1 classroom. Teacher Stephanie Wamble is seated at left.
DAYTON - "Fresh-picked," "sour," "leafy," "crunchy," "spherical" and "spikey" are just a few of the adjectives students in Ms. Wamble's Kindergarten/first grade classroom used to describe the smell, appearance, taste, and sound of a variety of salad greens and oranges they sampled at last week's presentation by Vickie Hodgson, a health educator with the Columbia County Health Department.
Since the fall of 2015, Hodgson has been making interactive presentations every six weeks, in all four K-1 classrooms at Dayton Elementary School. The purpose of the program is to help students expand th...
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