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Field Trips Are Back! Giving Thanks for the Splendor of Our City as a Classroom

Dear New Yorkers:

I had the joy on Tuesday of joining second- and third-graders from PS 46 in Brooklyn for a field trip to our wondrous American Museum of Natural History in Central Park. We spent the morning hanging out with the big blue whale in the Hall of Ocean Life and checking out the exhibits on the northern sea lion, the harbor seal, and the diving birds—which seemed to be the kids’ favorite because, as a couple of second-graders excitedly shared with me, “They’re birds that both fly in the air and swim in the water.”

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