And here’s how it all begins… It’s early one morning, about fifteen years ago and I’m driving my daughter Matia to school, to her grade three class. I’m sleepy from…
I first discovered that my family’s Greek restaurant was also a classroom shortly after my parent’s Mary and Theo opened Theo’s Restaurant over forty years ago, in 1976. In the…
One morning after dropping off Matia at her classroom, I’m walking down the hallway of her school and stop to admire a wall full of fantastic sunflower paintings that the…
In the following school year the sunflower painting project branched out. Matia was in that new Grade Three classroom and it got me thinking about what other fun we could…
One evening at our restaurant a local teacher named Tammy Kay was in for dinner with her family. She informed me of an upcoming exhibit of some of the works…

After a few months of planning and production, the Nature Matters videos were ready for screening! Miss Aoki brought popcorn to help celebrate the achievement of finishing the videotaping, poetry…

Once the students finished writing their poems, they were ready for the next step of the project, which was to record themselves reciting their poetry. In preparation for this we…

