Green Week was an adventure in which we learned to be kinder to nature.
The children discovered how important it is to protect water and how much harm pollution can do — even a single wrapper thrown in the wrong place. It is the small example that works: "pollution" stays a word from the news, whereas a plastic bag that ends up in a river is an image you can follow all the way through, consequences included.
We found out how we can help the planet through recycling, we sorted materials, we talked, we played and we learned through hands-on experience. Sorting in particular is a more serious exercise than it looks: it asks you to recognise what an object is made of, to look at the packaging before throwing it away and to accept that some things do not fit a single category. These are habits that transfer straight home, to the kitchen bin.
They were days full of enthusiasm, good ideas and the wish to change something for the better. The children showed us that they understand how precious the environment is — and, as usual, they were far stricter than the adults about the rules they had just learned.