Third-graders eat well at school’s Cajun Days
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DENHAM SPRINGS — It wouldn’t have been Cajun Day at Seventh Ward Elementary on Friday without good Cajun food, and parents made sure there was plenty on hand.
The third-graders participating in the Cajun Day program enjoyed boiled crawfish, jambalaya, red beans and rice and fried catfish.
The children wore paper hats they had decorated with paper crawfish, as they ate their special lunch, in the cafeteria.
They enjoyed desserts, too, such as beignets, Mississippi mud pie and strawberries.
Cajun Day is a longtime tradition at Seventh Ward.
“This is the 18th year at the school,” said Cheryl Lass, third-grade teacher.
The day is a culmination of the third-graders’ yearlong study of Louisiana, from A-to-Z, literally.
Throughout the year, the students took every letter of the alphabet and learned about something that corresponded — “K” was for King Louis; “L” was for the Louisiana Purchase; and “M” was for magnolia, for example.
The Louisiana studies are made “all across the curriculum” in math, social studies, science, art and music, Lass said.
A special guest of the day was Jesse “Scotty” Eaves, an expert in the making of nautical rope knots, who tied the knots on the destroyer USS Kidd DD-661 that’s at the heart of the riverfront veterans memorial in Baton Rouge.
Eaves uses a large metal needle-like tool called a marlinspike, to create much of his ropework.
He told the children that many of the knots he knew how to make were the kind that Cajuns of generations past used with their pirogues.
One of the more elaborate knots Eaves made — used on ships instead of pirogues — that the kids liked was the “monkey’s fist,” a cubed knot that could be used as a weight to swing a line where it needed to go.
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