The Money Museum and Marina City Rooftop

Yesterday the Club took a trip to the Money Museum at Chicago's Federal Reserve Bank, and we made a stop at the Marina City Rooftop. The money Museum was an amazing experience. We even got to  take a picture with a million dollars (see the picture above)!!!!!! We also learned how to manage money. Going to the city  rooftop was a mind blowing experience, see the picture of us all jumping for joy.

-Kenny, 7th grade

Chicago Pizza Tour!

Yesterday we went on a pizza tour with Chicago Pizza Tours!

We took the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club bus to a pizza place called Pizano's near Millenium Park That is where our journey began. At Pizano's we met our tour guide. He told us how the owner of Pizano's father brought pizza to Chicago. After he explained that to us he told us about the three pizza places we were going to visit. Once he finished with that we just hung out until our pizza arrived. When the pizza finally arrived our faces lit up! There were three kinds of pizza and they were pepperoni, deep dish sausage and the bar special. Every one had at least two pieces of pizza. After everyone was finished the guide told us how the owner of Pizano's father once delivered pizza to the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton.

Then we took the HPNC bus to another pizza place called CoalFire. When we were all settled in at CoalFire our guide showed us what they cooked the pizza in. It was cooked in a stone oven that reached 1300 degrees. Then we had some of their Margarita pizza. It was named Margarita after the former Queen of Italy, who tried peasant pizza and the pizza was named that in her honor. A Margarita pizza is a pizza with a tomato and a basil leaf on top of the pizza.

After that was finished we rode the HPNC bus to another pizza place called Gino's East. Gino's East was founded by two taxi drivers. The only problem was they didn't know how to make pizza. So they offered the head chef at Uno's a job and she accepted it and brought her sister and cousins with her.  She didn't like how hard the crust of deep dish pizza was, so she added corn meal to the recipe. What that did was make the outside of the crust hard and the inside soft.

 In the 60's people would wait in line for an hour to get a table so in the mean time they wrote on the walls. Instead of banning it, Gino's East  embraced it, and made it a tradition. So what we did was write Hyde park Neighborhood Club and all the rest of the campers write their names around it. When the pizzas arrived there were two choices: pepperoni or spinach. Most of the people chose pepperoni. After we all finished our food we took a group picture. Then we took the guide home and came back to HPNC.

-Nathan, 7th grade

Cooking for the 4th of July

On Tuesday we did a cooking project to celebrate the 4th of July. I made some strawberries that were dipped in white chocolate. We sprinkled them with blue sprinkles and when we were done  they were red white and blue. We followed a recipe to make the strawberries. We also made a drink that was supposed to be red, white, and blue. There was an extra addition added on accident so the drink turned  purple.  Then we made a firework hot dog on a stick with red white, and blue ribbons on them. I tasted a hot dog and it was good. I like cooking with people because its easier when you have help.

-Riane, 7th grade

Today we are going to have fun fun fun! Today we went to the the greatest movie ever. It was called

MARVINS ROOM.


                                                                                                 Marvin ( going to 8th grade)

Gardening at the Club...

Lately we have been gardening with the younger kids at the club on Thursdays.  Thursday was fun for every one because every one was helping pull out weeds and water flowers. I think the best person to pull out weeds was Seth. He was the best worker there. He didn't  go play, he just keep working and didn't stop at all!

-Keiara, 6th grade

Chinatown!

Last week we took a trip on the train to Chinatown! It was so fun. We learned about the male and female lions who guard Chinatown. The female lion has a heart on her collar and the male lion has a circle on his collar, thats how we could tell the difference. Chinatown has twenty grocery stores in total. We also took a tour around Chinatown with a tour guide. We learned Chinese astrology facts about our birth year. After all of that we dived into some very tasty Chinese food at a resturant in a mall area. The food had alot of flavor and my favorate was the teriyaki chicken.

-Shiran 7th grade