Here are some photos from the 373R Elementary school site. They transformed an empty space into a beautiful vegetable/sensory garden.
Thank you to Mary Jean Lotito and Pamela Kominoski for the photographs.
A teacher who came to the District 75 Blogging workshop has created a food/cooking blog entitled Learn.Prepare.Cook. Please take a look and you will be inspired.
Okra, green Creole vegetable
Okra is a small green vegetable that gets a tad slimy when cooked, and is delicious pickled. It is very popular in New Orleans’ creole and cajun cuisines. A vegetable seller in New Orleans who drove his cart around town went by the name of “Mr. Okra.”
Mr. Okra, vegetable peddler
Recently, Mr. Okra passed away; his legacy lives on.
The NYCDOE and UFT recognized Hometown Hero Michael Masefeld of 754X. See him on the far right side?
P754X teacher Michael Masefield gets recognition as a Hometown Hero for the hard work he does in school on the farm.
Indoor Garden at 754X. Unidentified hand.
Look what’s squawking at 754X in the Bronx!
Enjoying the beauty of small, medium, and large flowers can be very “graph-tifying. (get it? “graph” and “gratifying?”) From our “Math and Nature Connections” professional development event at the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx.
A lovely photograph of Dale Chihuly’s glass sculpture from the professional development day at New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx.
754X has hatched a brilliant idea: City Fresh Eggs from the Bronx. The students collect, clean, and package the eggs laid by the school chickens. Here is the final product!
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