Spring has sprung! It is still quite early to dress lightly, but spring is definitely in the air! I am so so happy that the E2 class students started a garden at the back of our school, with the help of their teacher, Angelos Michalopoulos and Mrs. Olga Venizelou-Rouva, a gardener who admins the Facebook group called Ομάδα Παραδοσιακών Σπόρων Πύργου Ηλείας.

I was around when they first started planting the seeds, so I helped them make the labels.

Then I offered help to make a kind of garden book, if they wanted to, and the students were thrilled! There’s a lot of artistic talent in this class, as some of the children can draw really beautifully, so this was another chance for me to try and put this side of them to good use.

We started by making a list of what they have already planted in the garden. The students googled the items to find the English translations and see images of them. Then they drew and painted. Then we wrote a few lines about each plant in Greek and English.

But the project is still unfinished, as there are plenty more plants growing from seed in small plastic, reused containers, waiting to be taken outside, which is when we will add more pages to our book! We are also thinking about adding photos and leaves or flowers from the plants. We have already found a great piece of cardstock to form the front and back covers of our finished book, but for the moment we are all waiting, patiently!