While walking to their game yesterday, the CHAH Middle School Baseball ran into Jim Leyritz!
He kindly walked and chatted with the team about the sport. He then stopped for a photo. Since he had just left a signing, he gave us all a signed photograph of his 1996 World Series homerun.
Thank you Jim Leyritz!
On Friday, the CHAH ninth grade had a very special guest, Celia Kerner, come to speak to them.
Ms. Kerner is a Holocaust survivor orignally from Poland. She told her remarkable story of escaping the horrors of the Nazi regime and eventually moving to NYC.
CHAH students were so thankful for hearing her story. You are welcome anytime Ms. Kerner!
The new CHAH Fashion Club is a real stitch! Lead by Guidance Counselor Ms. Chimilio, students have worked on various shapes and sizes of "croquis". Croquis are a quick sketchy drawing of a live model. Croquis drawings are usually made in a few minutes, after which the model changes pose. The word “croquis” comes from French and means simply "sketch". A croquis is often an outline silhouette, for use by a designer.
Members also learned to create mood boards and how it taps into their creativity.
This week they learned how to knit and cast on and off a stitch. Students are all learning the basic gauge stitch.
We're working on learning the basics of sewing soon!
The Boys Middle School Baseball team is here!! Mr. Heidke has started the Middle School Baseball team and the boys are excited and ready to go. So far, the team has played two games and shown great enthusiasm and improvement. Most games are at 128th and 2nd Avenue-head over and cheer on the CHAH Middle School Baseball team!
Takeshi Furumoto visited CHAH today and told his remarkable story. Tak was born in a Japanese Incarceration camp during WWII but his spent the following few years living in Hiroshima and saw first hand the after effects of the Atomic Bomb.
Tak never lost his faith in America and returned stateside and fought for the US in the Vietnam War.
Tak spoke to the 9th grade students and told the danger of Atomic weapons and how they must be the generation to stop war! War is expensive...peace is free! Thanks so much Tak!
