This week we celebrated two icons of the farm labor movement, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. In the classroom, we read Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez by Monica Brown and illustrated by Joe Cepeda. The second graders were fascinated by the many ways these two leaders fought for change, including organizing labor strikes, long marches, boycotts, and even hunger strikes to protest low wages, poor working conditions, and harmful pesticide use.
In the kitchen, we made an iconic breakfast dish that originated on Mexican farms, huevos rancheros. Students warmed corn tortillas, made a fresh salsa, sliced avocado, and learned to fry eggs. This is a deceptively complicated dish requiring a lot of technical skill with knives and heat - the chefs handled it all with aplomb! You can see how they scored the meal (out of 10) in the last photo.
