eTwinning Project ”Every Plant Tells a Story” Blog: July 2025

Monday, July 7, 2025

Letter A for SID Poster

The Etwinners from Mircea cel Batran Secondary School received their bookmarks from their colleagues in Bulgaria.

The 2nd grade etwinners received their participation certificates.

Plants in different views

Winter is magical. With the help of the Quivver app, 2nd grade students discovered what can be hidden in a gift box.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U6gJishb3Ig

With the help of Canva's AI image generator, Matei creates the Legend of Dadfodil

According to a legend, daffodils first bloomed upon the death of Narcissus, an incredibly beautiful young man, the son of the river god Cesiphus and the nymph Liriope from Greek mythology. Although he was surrounded by the love and admiration of those around him, Narcissus remained indifferent to the attentions and proposals of love, preferring hunting, at which he was very skilled. The nymph Echo fell madly in love with the handsome young man, but, being rejected, she died of pain and unrequited love. After the nymph's death, Narcissus was cursed by the goddess of revenge, Nemesis, to never be able to love anyone and to fall in love with himself. Making him see his face in the water of a spring, the young man fell in love with that image and, wanting to embrace his face reflected in the water, Narcissus falls and drowns. The nymphs came to mourn him and transformed him into a fragrant flower, which blooms at the arrival of spring and bears his name, a flower called the narcissus. It is said that the narcissus flowers hold their heads down like Narcissus who was reflected in the water, and in the center of the flower even the tears of the young man remained...

With the help of the AI STUDIO application, Ilinca presents you The Legend of the Peony.

Peony was the son of an old and very peaceful emperor. On his death, the emperor asked him to promise that he would be a good king and not go to the cursed lake where the ghosts and deceptive elves live that turn people into donkeys and calves, disfiguring them.

After the emperor's death the boy mourned him for a long time. Now he was the master of the kingdom. He had the mace in his hand and the golden crown on his head.

After a few years, when the promises were forgotten, the new emperor passed by the forest where the cursed lake was located. Suddenly, Peony began to lose sleep. The nightingales were singing, but also the enchanted elves that lured Peony into the forest ...

The young king walked magnetized, following the elves and ghosts, until he reached the enchanted grove. The white elves danced around the young emperor, charming him and thinking about what to turn him into.

The mother of the elves, as attractive as her daughters, ordered that she be immediately transformed into a red flower. So be it!

In an instant, king's body entered a whirlwind and transformed into a red flower, quite large and beaten like a tuft of wood. Then the elves disappeared into the cursed lake, and people called the red flower a peony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK6c92xj1F4

Legend has it that once upon a time there lived a very beautiful but lonely daughter of an emperor named Camelia. To fill her time, she spent most of her time talking to flowers and had learned their language.

In the kingdom of the young woman's father lived a dragon who used to eat all the girls over the age of 14. The closer she got to this age, the better she was guarded and the more worried her parents were. Although she was guarded by the most skilled soldiers, at 12:00 at night when the girl turned 14, the dragon managed to enter the castle, in the tower where she had been imprisoned, and kidnap her, intending to take her far away and eat her. On the way to where the dragon lived, Camelia begged the flowers on the blooming meadows they passed to transform her into a flower and save her.

The flowers fulfilled her wish and transformed her into a particularly delicate pink flower, which the dragon escaped from its clutches and which, as soon as it touched the ground, took root and gave birth to new flowers with the most varied colors and shapes. This flower was called Camellia. It symbolizes luck, presence of mind. The man who gives a woman a camellia considers her unique, special, lucky. The woman who likes camellias is generally solitary, strong, independent and likes to do things alone.

Our Etwiner, Theia, lovingly drew the legend of the camellia.