We hauled big logs and built cabins. We saw dragonflies, bees…” says Serine, 7, a first-grader at Louis-Pergaud school in Les Coteaux. “We discovered that we can make syrup with a plant called birch. We made nettle bread.
We discovered many other plants and many types of insects,” recalls Abdulla, 11, in CM2 at Cour de Lorraine school in the city centre. He and his classmates and their teacher Muriel
Trommenschlager also tell us about three snails they met on a trip to the Philosopher’s Forest and decided to adopt. The children took them back to school, named them, made terrariums for them, petted and observed them, and read about the life of the geckos. And after a few weeks, Bobo, Turbot and Tchoupi – the names they gave their shell and antenna friends – were released into the wild.