Our weather report from February

This is our video animation.

We decided to plant an Olive Tree. We don’t have any at our school although it’s a traditional tree in Portugal. We also planted a Strawberry Tree – you can find some information about it here.

We planted the trees, sang a song about protecting forests and we measured each tree to register their height. We will watch them growing, while caring for them.

After recycling paper we decided to re-use the old newspapers we had left to make our project logo “It’s Up 2U” in paper maché. We discovered some interesting things about Earth. We know now the 5 continents, the oceans, the North and South Pole. We noticed that oceans are bigger than continents and we think that Earth is beautiful. Check your postbox, maybe you have a surprise…

We recycled old newspapers and made new paper with it. It’s something we make every year and we like it very much. This year we made small notebooks with the cover made by us and the sheets inside are of commercial recycled paper. We made natural inks:
Green – smashed spinach
Orange: curry
Brown: coffee
Purple: beetroot
Dark yellow: saffron
Yellow: egg
We wrote and made drawings with feathers from a nice rooster, like our ancestors made. It’s funny, but not easy.
Do you want to try?

This is our Eco-brochure we made together with the Ecobags.

This year we participated, once more, in the Carnival Parade with all schools from our Municipality. Thinking about the environment, we tried to make all costumes recycling materials as plastic bags and coffee bags. We all made a Medieval Royal Court with the King and Queen, the Bishop, many Princesses, many Jesters and many Soldiers. We all had a great time…

Continuing our Environmental Project we asked for a compost bin to our garden. We began collecting dried leaves at our playground and, after putting some twigs we put alternately, fruits, vegetables and dry yard clippings. In some weeks we will have “compost“ that’s a very good material for our plants in our kitchen garden as a natural fertilizer. At the same time we are contributing to reduce the greenhouse effect reducing solid waste.

Every year we participate in an ecological campaign for schools, collecting old batteries for recycle. This campaign is supported by a big national supermarket. This year all local community was involved and our kindergarten was the best in our region collecting batteries. The award was 1000 € in books for our library. With these books we will make an itinerant library for all kindergartens of our community. We’ve just received the books.

As you can see we are all very happy!

We collected many plastic stoppers from water bottles, yoghurts and different plastic containers. We took all the plastic to the local media (radio and newspaper). There they keep all the plastic stoppers, until they have 1000 kilos of it. There is a factory that recycles the plastic stoppers and offers a wheel chair. The local media offered already 5 wheel chairs to different social institutions. We are glad to say that we helped not only those institutions but also the environment.

We discovered this funny game and we remembered the penguin we received from Greece. We want to share this game with you and we hope you like it too.

This week we planted the first small plants in our Biologic Kitchen-garden. We have to take good care of it. We will show you how these small plants will grow and in the end we will make a fantastic soup to all of us.