Exploring our local products

First and second graders are learning to communicate and respect the place they live in with its quality and its assets. Messinia province is the area with the largest production of figs all over Greece and one of the finest in Europe. Each year the exports are large and the biggest production unit only 10km away from our school. Today was a great day to do that!

We went there and we got to see how the preparation of the figs which remains the same (without additions and preservatives) since 1910 when it first started. The only flavor added is the amazing messinian oregano which the students got to add to figs.

10th P.S. of Kalamata celebrates World Day for Disability

Today we celebrated the world day for disability by doing something different. We explored our neighborhood, in different terms. We were blind for one day. This is collaborative way of learning at its best. Our students were divided into small groups of 5 or 6 with specific roles. One acted as the disabled person. He/She was blindfolded and used a broom stick to provide him/her with the needed guidance along with oral instructions by a classmate who acted as the friend. The other three or four students, depending on the team, monitored and recorded the experience while at the same time they wrote down all botchery, errors and ill-practices by our fellow citizens and municipal authorities  in our neighbourhood towards short-sighted or blind people.