“What’s g(r)o(w)in on???”

Comenius project 2012-14

4th Primary School Tirnavos, Greece

Our school was really happy to host the first project meeting

The plant we chose:Grapes and grapevines

Students got all kind of information about the plant and its products.

We focused on wine and a local drink: tsipouro.

One of our aims was to focus on more plants and herbs that grow in our area.

So we visited an environmental school for one day.

After the class we visited a farm where organic tea is cultivated.

The owners explained the procedure and we asked them a lot of questions.

Finally it was time to start our own garden!!!We gathered seeds and we prepared seedbeds.

We also visited the city open market to look for local products and we took some interviews asking questions

about the jobs, the financial perspectives, how hard it is to produce and sell the products.

It was almost Christmas and we started preparing our chocolate rocks …

… and sweet honey buns

We decorated the walls in our classrooms with posters from the project and we played … games out in nature to learn more about it!!!

A field trip in a nearby hill …

We made our own collection of seeds and we played with them and used them in different

school events

Spring came and our little seedbeds flourished. We are very proud of our indoors gardens!!!But it was time to move our plants to bigger pots.

Everybody helped. We used cans and plastic containers we had saved in our recycling boxes.

We decorated them and used them.

And we made our own garden!!!

… to be continued