Thank you so much to West Vernon Elementary and Title I Coordinator Sharon Hall-Johnson for nominating EnrichLA to receive the AALA Community Award! It was an honor to experience and be amongst others doing great things for our schools! Tomas O’Grady receives the awards and gives a heartfelt thank you. Sharon…
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Spreading the love at Atwater Elementary
At our class this past week at Atwater Avenue Elementary, we made “seed bombs” with some of the students from Ms. Shekoyan’s day class. Packed with shredded newspaper, seeds and water to stick them together, these heart shaped seed carriers are able to spread seeds wherever you might throw them, as long as they’ve…
Cooking at Atwater Elementary!
It had been a little while since we cooked, so this week at Atwater Elementary it was back to the “cooking channel!” We made a fresh veggie and feta salad with our Kinder and First grade classes, and talked about the texture of each of the parts of the salad– how a bell pepper is crunchy,…
Bees and honey at Atwater Elementary!
A couple weeks ago at Atwater Elementary, we watched the student version of the documentary The Vanishing of the Bees, which examines why honeybees have been mysteriously disappearing, literally vanishing from their hives, known as Colony Collapse Disorder. This phenomenon has brought beekeepers to crisis in an industry responsible for producing apples, broccoli, watermelon,…
Composting and Red Wiggler Worms at Atwater Ave Elementary
At Atwater Avenue Elementary on January 25th, we had a lesson on composting. We took a bag full of various “trash” pieces and sorted them into recycling, compost or landfill trash. We learned about what compost is, how to best make it from “brown” (the round part inside a toilet paper roll and brown paper…
Leaf Rubbings and Photosynthesis at Atwater Ave Garden Class
During the garden and home economics class at Atwater Avenue Elementary on January 18th, we learned about photosynthesis and its essential parts–water, minerals from the soil, and sunlight. After discussing this with the use of our outdoor chalkboard classroom, we made leaf rubbing bookmarks to celebrate the importance of the leaves in the process of…
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