Taking the Common Core standards outside.
We ran into Chef Ray L. Duey at the Multicultural Festival in Elk GrovGrove, California this past weekend and spent several minutes at the Kaiser-Permanente booth mesmerized by his artwork with fruits and vegetables. Chef Ray, of Lodi, Calif., has won awards for his work, been to the White House, and competed on the Food Network. […]
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Several years ago, I heard nutrition consultant Jim Painter speak at a teacher conference. I don’t remember a lot from that talk, except that he was a fun speaker, his business card said he worked for Sun-Maid Growers of California, and he gave us some advice about eating ice cream. He said he eats ice […]
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One of the most exciting things about coming home from summer vacation in our neighborhood was turning the corner to find our renovated park finally open and herds of kids using it. This park is truly a neighborhood park in every sense of the word since the neighborhood met with parks staff to plan it […]
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