This is a made-up story. A class keeps a seedling in a clay pot on the classroom windowsill. Someone waters it each morning, and nobody quite admits to checking on it during lessons.
It leans toward the window, so the class turns the pot every few days. A second pair of leaves opens. Then a third. A drawing of the plant appears on the wall, and then another.
By the end of term the seedling is too big for its pot. The class carries it outside together and plants it at the edge of the school garden, and somebody makes a small sign.
The lesson was never really about the plant. It was about showing up, a little at a time.