Classroom Cooking

Hello Families!

To those that are new to our class, I try to incorporate as many cooking and baking opportunities as possible into our regular schedule. Cooking in the Montessori classroom is a Practical Life activity that the students enjoy very much. 

Over the summer we had TWO Donors Choose projects funded that were all about gathering the materials and some of the non perishable ingredients we need to make green smoothies in the classroom! The green smoothies are a new thing for our class! My hope is to get the students excited about nutrient dense foods by helping them see that kale and spinach and many other ingredients like chia seeds etc, can taste great; especially in a smoothie! My goal is to have them create the green smoothies the last Friday of each month, or at least once a month. 

Non Perishable Ingredients for the Smoothies

For this go around I would welcome perishable donations for the smoothies the week of August 22nd. In keeping with the nutrient dense and healthy food theme, I am asking for organic ingredients, such as fresh kale and/or spinach (one or two bags) and a few (two or three) bags of frozen organic fruit such as mango, strawberries or blueberries. We also welcome fresh organic bananas. I know for certain that Whole Foods has these ingredients, but I'm not sure about other grocery stores. Any extra frozen fruit will be used the next month in the smoothies. Rest assured that nothing will go to waste!      

Last year we also had a huge project funded that provided us with an oven, pots and pans, and various other kitchen accouterments to help us with our classroom cooking. As you can see I am a huge fan of Donors Choose. I usually wait until there is some sort of match offer up for grabs before creating large projects, so that our friends and families only have to try to raise half of the dollar amount. The latest project funded just last week was fully funded by Target, except for the last $98 dollars! Tom's of Maine matched every donation on a large project that had beautiful and much needed Montessori Waseca materials. I CAN NOT wait for the students to begin working with these!

My point is, thank you, thank you, thank you, for all of your past and future donations towards our Donors Choose projects. Your children are the recipients of your generosity!

If you plan to send something in for the green smoothies, please try to send it in either Monday August 22nd or Tuesday, so that I can purchase what hasn't been donated before the Friday that we make the smoothies.

I will be posting our first classroom newsletter for this school year, this Friday with various photos of some of the activities from last week and this week! In the meantime, if you have any questions or comments please email me at Jazmin.Corbell@sccpss.com.

Several students have turned in their paper work from Open House; thank you! Some missed the last page of the Student Code of Conduct. Please tear that out and return filled out. Also, please return all field trip forms with the $10 by August 26, 2016. Thank you!!