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WEEKLY PICKS for reading & exploring

Calling all YouTubers: Playlists are a kind of online binge watching. Perhaps. 

Mathematicians

Crafters/Fashion designers

Sushma is so clear in her handiwork and you learn so much in so little time!

Thinkers

Indiashastra knows how to augment reading into true learning. I appreciate the very old school humor also.

Writers 

Forget Youtube. Reading sentences will help you in writing sentences. So let’s get deep but basic with a pencil paper and you.

Our mantra, don’t give up on books!! 

“reading is not optional.” — walter dean myers

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WEEKLY PICKS for reading & exploring

Calling all writers: Join the Why I Rise Poetry contest: deadline is May 8th
“Turn a bad experience into something good” Details here.

This is a short doc about the Why I Rise movement:

Along with ART, we celebrate the EARTH with the Staten Island Museum–April 25th at noon a whole playlist of How-to videos will drop….how to make ink with walnuts, how to make a hydroponics system using a recycled 5-gallon water bottle, how to infuse cooking oils with seeds and herbs, and much more!

NY Wild Film Festival – Watch films about our EARTH….check out the free streaming movies on darkness and endangered “language of light” of fireflies celebrating WILD NYC:

Brilliant Darkness: Hotaru in the Night from BonSci Films on Vimeo.

NYC’s 520 miles of waterfront!:


And, as always, find some time each day to immerse yourself in a book to de-stress, empathize with others and know you are not alone…..Here is a curated list of ebook & audiobooks for City-As-School students & staff. For access for those outside of our community, please send a request!