Since the first and second graders are currently working on the "food" unit in both science and English classes, this past Friday at school, Valeria, Jose Luis, all the 1st & 2nd graders, and I spent the entire day preparing healthy snacks! We'll use the term "healthy" loosely here. The foods on our "healthy menu" were fresh-squeezed lemonade (that one fits the category), homemade pizza (a stretch considering that all the ingredients we used were prepackaged, but I s'pose this one could pass for healthy), a chocolate "milkshake" (milk + Cola Cao + more sugar...getting less healthy still), and cake (get outta here...this one's not even close).
I made recipe posters for the pizza and the cake so that they could learn the ingredients and how to follow a recipe. For the lemonade and the "milkshake," Jose Luis simply explained how to do it. While I am a little skeptical about the message we sent them about healthy and unhealthy foods, they are, after all, just kids and can pretty much get away with eating whatever they want. Plus, judging from what they normally bring to school for snacks, the things we made were a step closer to healthy for most. Overall, the kids had a really good time with the activity. They were pretty rowdy all morning and at times even unruly, but we made it through the day and I like to think they walked away from it with what little you might hope for a 5-, 6-, or 7-year-old to retain with all the excitement and distractions of food, cool cooking gadgets, and most importantly, way too much sugar!
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