Botanical Journal 5th and 6th Class. Nov./2020
Sixth class has just finished the Botanical Period, have learned it from observation in their environment, writing, reciting poems, the reading, the drawing in their notebooks and the most anticipated, the pedagogical outings that his teacher Doña Anaya conscientiously prepared.
The first outing coincides with 5th class to L’Alcúdia and 6th class to Lo Torrent Park where there were two challenges: the first was walking from school to the park, watching mosses, mushrooms, Lion teeth, conifers, flowering plants and trees, taking samples of fruits and leaves; And the second challenge to identify the trees in the park, After sharing moments of play and lunch, they took a guided tour by their teacher who fed their knowledge and interest by answering every little detail that they observed..
They also talked about the trees of Alicante, There were several who described the three Ficus Microphylla of La Plaza de Gabriel Miró, that since 1879 houses the most remarkable ficus in Spain, they are trees protected by their size, with a trunk of more than 6 meters of perimeter and 25 m. the diameter of your cup, to tell us that what they like the most is to take shelter between its trunk and its lianas.
Doña Anaya discovered that most of the trees in Lo Torrent Park are of tropical origin., faster growing than our native trees, there are species of Cinnamon, Tipuana, bottle tree, plumbing bag, Cyclamen, Drago, thought, etc., there they drew the tree that they liked the most before starting the return.
But the great day of immersion in nature, for 5th class as first contact and as period closure to 6th, was the day in The Sierra de Aitana, the Waldorf caravan leaves the school towards the first objective: The Millenary Carob Tree of Alfaz del Pí (Photo 1 Y 2), there the species of mosses were waiting for the children to recognize them and photograph them by putting an image of the words that their teacher had explained to them in detail during the botany period.( Photo 3)
On the way to the mountains we had our second objective, Ctra. Benimantell to Polop, a majestic pine tree of more than 500 years that could only embrace him when everyone united around him, and a boy deduced that the other trees that surrounded him were very far away because the roots of the monumental tree are 2 times the size of your cup.(Photo 4 Y 5)
And the icing on the cake was placed next to the fountain in the Sierra Aitana (Photo 6) where they congratulated their partner born on this day with a beautiful song, does 11 years, another friday 13, they shared a delicious homemade chocolate cake before climbing to the top, where the maples in their most beautiful moment of observation, They showed their leaves in different shades of ocher and brown.(photo 7)
There were not a few centenary lichens and mosses, like the palms of your hands, those who encouraged us on the way, decorated with beautiful dewy spider webs; A great challenge was reaching the snow hole whose climbing produced moments of discouragement in the most sedentary travelers, that when they shared their feelings we heard them say: “I hope Doña Anaya gets tired”, but their muscles warmed up and climbing over rocks and paths, everyone reached the top victorious (Photo 8).
The leading group with their teacher in front had already camped when the last climber arrived and they were preparing lunch in view of Puig Campana, the Orcheta swamp and the Guadalest swamp which were also witnesses to the narrative of the Odyssey with the return of Ulysses to Ithaca; there they continued ascending to the highest peak to see the saffron flowers (Photo 9), who welcomed us with the rainbow that further decorated the monumental view.
going down, some running, others walking and others rolling, they had learned about the excursion shortly and they challenged their teacher: “The path has been short"; We only needed to see an inhabitant of the mountains,What animal fertilized the landscape with its little black balls or pitted olives like a traveler compared, who did not want to be seen? The goat (Photo 10)
This is how the Botany period ended, climbing to the top of Aitana accompanied by Ulises, of his knowledge and his inner strength.
Shy
