"Like a fish in water!"

On Monday, 7th of July…We have started our week with many objectives in our mind, but not just any … rather very valuable ones and we are going to obtain them with the help of our little ones starting with the Owl Project. The parents have gone on holiday so that children would learn to do the house chores and the great value of helping other family members on a daily basis.

From today until Friday we will learn how to collect the plates from the table, to wash our hands before sitting at the table, to make the bed, to leave the things that we take and use in place. But the most important what we are going to learn will be how to have a good manners: to greet or to say goodbye to people that we see on a day to day basis, to ask for a permission to speak (because sometimes you learn more by listening than by speaking, do you agree?), to ask help when we need it and grant it to those who need it. And the latter is of a great importance to know how to live in society, to achieve the goals that we set in order to enjoy a full and peaceful life. 

With the help of coordinator Rosa and her colleagues, through games and workshops with the respect for people and the environment, tolerance, responsibility, commitment, patience, friendship, happiness.. all of this will reign in the second week of July in Casa de la Ciencia. With the rules of courtesy we will issue the passport without which you cannot travel through life. Will we all feel "Like a fish in water"? Let's do it!

Here we leave you a small musical album on Monday shared with Owl Project and its camp theme this week "Like a fish in water."

Miniature Nature

 Those little trees, so fragile and vigorous, and, above all, elegant as heck... Ever feel curiosity? You are probably thinking about bonsais, right? Well, in fact the word "bonsai" in Japanese refers not to the little trees but to the art of cultivating them.

And it is a very delicate art indeed, like everything stemming from the country of rising sun. Skilled bonsai masters achieve the shrunken size of the plants by using techniques such as transplantation, pruning, wire fencing, clamping... The purposes of bonsai are mostly aesthetic contemplation (for the viewer) and the pleasant exercise of effort and ingenuity (for the grower).

 

 This weekend, our Science Museum presents free educational exhibition and workshop for all audiences!

• Friday May 23th: 18:00 to 21:00
• Saturday May 24th: 10:00 to 21:00
• Sunday May 25th: 10:00 to 15:00

The exhibition corresponds to the XVI Spring Exhibition by Seville Association of Bonsai Chokkan.  The exhibition will demonstrate the approach to common techniques of this ancient art of growing trees and plants. Members of the Association will present some of the Bonsai examples over time. The professor Eduardo Hidalgo from the Association will hold a workshop this Saturday on 24^th of May at 11:30am, where he will show the entire process of growing a bonsai tree from the scratch. A plant grown in a pot during the right weather conditions but without receiving specific treatment will be elaborated in parallel with the explanation by the expert.  This activity is aimed to all audiences and the entry is free until the seats are filled. In addition, all participants have the opportunity to win a bonsai tree by taking part in the lottery that will take place during the exhibition.

See you this Saturday!