This is a close up of Sarah.
By the way, the choo-choo train crew are making so much noise! They are screaming “choo-choo train!!!” As soon as I took the picture, they proceeded to try and ‘move the train out of the station’…which means a lot of chairs being dragged across the floor.
Today I met a wonderful person named Sarah at the Mary Mitchell Center.
She was about to leave the building when I asked her if I could take a picture of her lovely outfit for my blog.
She told me she got her paper bag skirt from Madewell which I think is the piece that makes her outfit so stunning.
In addition to having a perfect outfit, she also had a wonderful personality. I felt like Sarah and I were friends for a long time. She was so down to earth. Even though we didn’t have much time to talk, I could tell she was someone I wouldn’t mind being friends with.
It was her idea to take a picture with the kids as a backdrop.
During the spring, which seems like a very long time ago now, the Literacy Club brainstormed on different ways
to improve their neighborhood.
Cleaning was one of the first ideas.
I went to the Majora Carter Group center in the Bronx (http://www.majoracartergroup.com/) and purchased a few dog poop few signs. Perviously, I saw a few signs in the Hunts Point area of the Bronx and took the phone number (718-874-4313) listed at the bottom of the sign to see if I could start the same thing in my neighborhood.
They were super eager to post signs throughout the neighborhood.
I personally think they liked the opportunity to tell their community what to do.
An entire week was dedicated to talking about Dog Poop in the neighborhood. We read Dog books together as a class and even made up dog songs!
Lastly, we took care of the Mary Mitchell Center.
Yep, people let their dogs poop near the center and don’t clean it up.
We try to post the signs on poles and not the trees.
To be honest, I can’t remember if they were reading it or using it as a hitting board…
Joi wasn’t going to let her height stop her from posting a sign!
They learned that dog poop is bad, not because it stinks and it’s easy to step in but it also because it isn’t good for the trees and the plants.
While we were putting the sign up, they looked around for people walking their dogs.
They not only posted signs, but also talked with dog owners asking them to clean up after their dogs.
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