Plant Sale

In February, during STEAM Week, we had Peer Planting. The plant sale consists of a group project that fifth graders prepared for younger kids and helped them do it. We made children plant their own plants and we took care of them. With 2€ of donation per plant, the little kids bought their own plant; with the 2€ of donation we bought a wooden pot to plant other school plants. Our school raised €345 from the peer planting (the planting with little kids)!!!

Plant Sale Recount
Finally the day we’ve all been waiting for has arrived, children running down the corridors, giggling, their eyes smiling with sunshine and light. They were all terribly excited,they couldn’t wait for today, when they were going to bring home their own plant. Streams of students lining up, jumping up and down as they patiently waited to feel the eco friendly soul, that even with one seed, saves a piece of our home, Earth, gently breathing as they hold it in their small palms. The feeling of happiness, helping our planet, was flooding billions of  classrooms, students handing plants swooshing down stairs, corridors, even gardens.

These were our conditions for the plant sale.

STEAM Week

STEAM Week stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics. Every year, we have this week where there are various events to celebrate. For example, there is a day, in this specific week, where we dress up as something, a profession that consists in one of the STEAM groups (Science, Tech…)

This year, we had Peer Planting! As you will know very soon, the kids of 1st,2nd,3rd and 4th grades, with the help of the fifth graders, planted their very own plants, and then we, fifth graders, planted them too!

Recount of our steam week

 The very day the steam week started, all of us were bubbling and popping inside full of content emotions, like violets dispersing their seeds. 

Erlenmeyer flask filled till’ the top with fizzling emotions, bursting free.

Bunsen burners heating idea lamps up.

Thermometers measuring the excitement in the room, breaking, not being able  to record that much temperature.

Stopwatches counting down the minutes until the timer rings and a long week of fun begins.

Stethoscope measuring our non-stop beating hearts bursting with energy!

Experiments, games, quizzes, these are just appetizers for the jollification that filled our week! 

Christmas market

The Christmas Market consists in raising money for charity. 

Every year, kids from 1st to 8th grade create small pieces of crafts to sell, and bring home. 

We always  use recycled materials and use as little plastic as possible.  

The cost for each craft is from 2-3€ and like for the plant sale, we raised a lot of money! 

We use the money to improve our school, to make it a better community and more eco friendly than it was before!

Christmas market recount

Shivers of magic jingling down children’s spines.

Blasts of magic bouncing from one wall to the next, like Santa’s reindeers hovering, scampering from a roof  to the next, striking each student, making them believe in the Christmas Miracles of blessedness. 

Parents gaping at their children’s artifacts, their jaw touching the ground and their eyes doubled in size. At the end of the day, when children go home, drenched in compliments from their illustrious mom and dad and adoring grannys and jolly grandpas and loving aunties and laughing stock uncles, expressing their smoothie of thrill and amusement while admiring the child's creation.