The CHAH Boys Basketball team attended the Fordham Team Camp last week. The camp was four days after school, where the students were able to visit the world-class campus and play against top notch competition from all around New York State.
Do you know the concept of mottainai? Have you ever made kombu or tasted nori? Thanks to the Wa-Shokuiku Program, CHAH's Food Ambassadors have had the opportunity to experience and learn about all of these elements of Japanese food education.
Wa-shokuiku comes from the Japanese words "washoku" for Japanese food and "shokuiku" for food education. The project, developed by nonprofit Table for Two USA, chose CHAH to help pilot their cooking class series.
While healthy cooking is familiar territory for Food Ambassadors, Japanese cuisine and values are new and exciting to learn. Students count to ten in Japanese as they wash their hands before cooking. They are taught about staple ingredients such as rice, seaweed, and fish. They prepare beautiful and wholesome bento boxes with a variety of colors, flavors, and textures, eager for the moment that they get to say "Ittadakimasu" (a polite way of saying, "Let's eat!") and enjoy their creations.
We are grateful for the Wa-Shokuiku Program for expanding our culinary horizons!
For more information on the program or the classes they provide, check out wa-shokuiku.org
Last week CHAH Sophomores and Juniors participated in Junior Achievement: High School Heroes. The program provides high school students the opportunity to become role models by becoming teachers for a day!
The CHAH students worked in teams of two or three and spent the day at PS 128. They taught a series of five fun and inspiring activities to the elementary students.
CHAH students arrived early to get settled and were greeted personally by the school principal. Throughout the day, they taught in Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd Grade classrooms.
Ailani and Marialy both said this was indeed a positive experience and look forward to doing it again next year. “You have to be really patient,” they said.
Steven and Ronaldy engaged the kindergarteners, saying "I now understand what my teachers go through.”
Yeimi was paired off with Alberto Hernandez in a self contained classroom. "I am now going to run andthank my teachers!” Yeimi said.
This past week, CHAH and our partner organization, CLOTH, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for our new medical clinic. The medical clinic will serve our students and their families right here in our school building. One parent wrote an article on Public School Proud, a UFT division aimed at celebrating all the good work our public schools are doing.
Check out the article by clicking the link below!
CHAH students got to see the hit show The Lion King this week at Minskoff Theatre on Broadway. The Lion King is the longest running Broadway show and the students could understand why. “It was amazing,” Manuel Irizarry said, “Something that I’ve never seen before. It was way better than the movie!”
His friend and baseball teammate Kevenz Gonzalez agreed. “It was remarkable to see the actor’s enthusiasm,” he said.
The field trip was organized by the CHAH dance teacher, Ms. Jacobson, who earned the funding by participating in a mentorship program for dance teachers through the NYC Department of Education. Ms. Jacobson worked closely with the music teacher, Ms. Calev, on a cross-curricular unit that culminated in the Broadway outing.
“This is why I became a teacher,” Ms. Jacobson said. “I’m happy that we got to offer our students an experience like this. I’m so glad they enjoyed it.”
And enjoy it they did. 10th Grader Emily Leon liked the play for the nostalgic feelings it gave her. “The performance brought me back to my childhood because it gave me good memories of the movie.”
Her friend, Kharina Cordero, got emotional. “It was so good that I cried,” she said. Then added, “In a good way.”
