Dying wool with natural colour made from oak tree nuts

Astakos was very famous for its oak tree forest. The whole town used to earn a living by collecting the oak tree nuts and selling it to produce colours for dying leather and cloth.

Last week we had a special visitor at school. A grandmother came to school, talked to us about these past times and showed us the traditional way of spinning wool. We then put oak nuts into boiling water and observed it taking a nice brown colour. We dyed our wool in it, let it dry and used it for weaving.

 

 

World Environment Day

 

On the 5th of June our school celebrated the World Environment Day. We all decided to take care of our beaches in Astakos. The students spent a whole morning collecting rubbish from the seashore. We were all very happy about our effort and very proud of our beautiful, clean coast!!!

 

 

 

Working on Mixtures

Class E worked on mixtures and made beet root salad and pomegranate liquer. Here are the recipes and some photos!

 

Beet Root Salad:

1/2 kilo of beet root (boiled)

1 cup of walnut (chopped)

mayionnaize (1 table spoon)

yoghurt (5 table spoons)

dill

garlic

vinegar

 

Pomegranate liquer 

 

Pomegranates

brandy or ouzo

cinnamon

sugar

 

we take out the pomegranate seeds

we put the seeds with the sugar in a glass bottle

we add the alcohol

we add cinnamon

we leave the bottle under the sun for 40 days

we drain and keep the liquid from the mixture

 

it's ready to drink!

 

 



Counting down for Christmas

Greetings from Astakos! As you can see, we make our preparations for Christmas. Teachers and pupils are decorating their classrooms, hanging socks for Santa! Our 2-graders have already finished their beautiful Christmas cards:

Our School open to parents

During this last month we shared a lot of things with our parents. We are very happy about the work we've done with the project. 

First of all, our vegetables were ready to be cut and consumed so we invited parents to school to help us out.

 Mothers and grandmothers took our vegetables home, prepared delicious dishes and brought them to school. We all  had a very nice big meal together under the trees.

 With a father's help, we prepared a part of the garden for new plants.

We also invited parents to school to celebrate this exciting and creative year!

We showed them our plants full of summer vegetables, we danced and sang, we played games, we had a theatre performance and we sold our crafts made by reused materials and offered the money to a non profit organisation for children.

This is a short video we shared with the community on our school's blog.

It was a fantastic year!!!