The Wonderful World of Cherries

Recipe


Dessert

Cherry
Prunus avium
Family: Rosaceae
Description & storage
Cherry: small soft round fruit, red or black when ripe, containing a stone.
Cherries always have to be picked ripe. They do not ripe well after they have been picked. You can keep cherries for one to three days.
Tree / shrub
The cherry tree grows upto 9 m.
Short histotory
Cherries are native in Europe.
Use
Cherries taste best consumed "warm" from the tree. Often jelly is made because they can't be stored. Cherries can be frozen but you better remove the stones first.
Types and family
There are red, black and yellow cherries.

Wine



A Wine Spot

(Traverse City, Michigan) June, 2009 – The National Cherry Festival will offer wine lovers of all levels an unsurpassed wine experience on the beautiful, tree-studded former Clinch Park Zoo property in downtown Traverse City. The three night event, Thursday, July 9; Friday, July 10; and Saturday, July 11 will feature a superb collection of over 90 wines selected by Master Sommelier Ron Edwards of Petoskey, Michigan.

First Post

I look forward to having my students at Gilliard Elementary School to use technology applications such as blogging. I need a break from direct instruction, and I need to get away from whole group instruction more. Especially now that I will have an inclusion class in 2009-10. The academic abilities in the class will span the gamut, and l'll need to find time for more one-on-one instruction. Blogging will help me with that. I think.

I could see blogging as a usful tool for grade level use. Posting ideas, suggestions for procedures, etc. and having teachers read and comment at leisure might work better at reaching more reflective (meaningful) opinions/ideas and doing away with dumb, time-consuming face-to-face meetings.

Finally, I'm excited about having students create acadenic blogs. We writejournals and that might be a good application