Description of our school's work at stage 2 of our Comenius project: We Want to be a Real Green School

1. We Want to be a Real Green School.
St. Brendan’s N.S. Ireland

2. Fruit Tasting
 We tasted five different
types of fruit
 Oranges
 Banana
 Mango
 Pineapple
 Avocado

3. Fruit Pictogram
 First class made a
pictogram .
 The most popular fruit
was pineapple.
 The least popular fruit
was avocado.
 We put our results in our
self assessment and
learning folders

4. Handa’s Surprise
 We made the fruit that
was in the story Handa’s
Surprise with play
dough.
 This is a basket of
tangerines.

5. Fruit Shop
 We set up a Fruit Shop in
the play area.
 We played shopkeeper
and customers.
 We got clip boards for
our shopping lists.
 We wrote our shopping
lists.

6. Fruit Shop
 We put prices on all the
fruit .
 We had play money and
a cash register.
 We had to figure out
how much we could buy
with the money that we
got.

7. Art Display
 We also made an art
display of the animals
and the fruit.
 It is just beside our shop
 Can you see the
elephant, the giraffe, the
goat and the parrot?

8. Drama
 We acted out the story.
 The monkey ate a
banana.
 The zebra ate an orange.
 The goat knocked all the
tangerines off the tree
 Can you guess who is
playing Handa in this
picture?

9. Growing Watercress
 We grew water cress in
little pots of garden
compost.
 We left them on the
window ledge for ten
days.
 You can put water cress
in sandwiches.

10. Recycled Decorations
 We made
Christmas
decorations from
recycled paper.
 Who put Mr.
Grass on the tree?

11. Recycled Materials in our lessons
History Project Musical
Viking Houses instruments made
from old containers

12. Every week we count which class
eats the most fruit
 The class with the most
fruit gets free homework
for a night.
 The class with the least
fruit gets this reminder

13. •We planted
seeds in our
greenhouse.
•We planted
carrots,
cauliflower,
turnips and
lettuce.

14. We are
also
growing
potatoes

15. Can you
guess
who is
watering
the
seeds?

16. •Our school has earned a first green flag.
•We hope to get our second green flag this
year.