Last week, our CHAH Esports Team visited Pace University and got to see how esports teams operate at the collegiate level. The students had a blast.
We met the director of esports. He spent the time talking to us about what pace offers and enjoyed watching our students play. Our kids held a friendly competition with BRHS too.
CHAH MS Baseball got its first win ever last week against Harold O'Levy MS. 4-1. We are not 1-0 for the season! Eiffry Moncion struck out 8 batters in 4 innings and had 2 RBIs. Leynin Aquilles scored two runs. Dennis Riley and Stephen Batista Tejada scored 1 each. There was great fielding by the whole team, which is a major improvement from last year.
The core of the team is the same as last year and they are excited for the rest of the season, as are all of us here at CHAH! The players all signed a ball for Coach Heidke and were ecstatic!
Students from our Middle School After School Literacy Program spent weeks reading about food and cultures from around the world. Last week, they took a field trip to Chinatown to experience some of the things they had read about for themselves. Students explored the neighborhood, stood in awe of the paper lanterns that they had previously learned how to make, and tried lots of new foods like soup dumplings and spring rolls. Everyone said the soup dumplings were their favorite and they were so happy they got to go on this trip.
CHAH is in the process of creating a gaming club as a pathway to coding. To help drive the club, students visited The Paley Center for Media and their Paley GX Gaming Studio! Students experienced and learned the historical aspect of gaming and now in its present day form. The studio featured the latest in gaming systems and VR games.
The future is now!
Our after school literacy club has been learning about Lunar New Year! Over the last few weeks students have read articles on the meaning of the holiday as well as what special foods to eat to bring good luck, wealth, and happiness.
After learning about the meaning of the holidays, students had the opportunity to make a lunar new year craft. They chose between a lantern and two different types of dragons.
The following week students read about special foods people eat on Lunar New Year. They learned how to use chopsticks and got to try a variety of foods: seaweed snacks, dumplings, red bean buns, and pocky. We took a poll: students overwhelmingly loved the pocky as well as the chicken dumplings. However, most students were not a fan of the seaweed snacks. It has been fun learning about different cultures!
