Blacklands County Primary School
Hastings, East Sussex, UK
We are a class of 5, 6 and 7 year olds at Blacklands Primary
School in the town of Hastings on the south coast of England. Our first
topic of the school year was Food so the Munchies project fitted in very
well. We found out about which foods were healthy and which we should eat
only a little of. Elliot's mum came in and helped us make a healthy snack.
Here is the recipe:
Monster Biscuits
You need:
- cheese spread
- cress
- cucumber
- tomato
- carrot
- savoury biscuits
First of all we spead the cheese on the biscuit and then
used the other ingredients to make a monster face. Some of us used the
cress to make green hair, a slice of cucumber cut in half for the ears,
3 slices of carrot for the eyes and nose and a quarter of a tomato for the
mouth. We found that it is best to eat these biscuits straight away because
if you leave them for too long they go soggy.
Mrs Ford took a photo of us holding our monster biscuits
but we can't send it yet because it is still in her camera!
Thank you to everyone else for their recipes. We thought
that the Friendship Fruit Salad was a really good idea and we are going
to try that some time.
With best wishes from Class 1/2 LF
P. S. 233
Brooklyn, New York
Happy Holidays from Mrs. Cuccia's 1st grade class at
P.S. 233 in Brooklyn, NY! We are an urban school of approximately 950 students
in PreK-5th grades. Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs that make up New
York City. We have many people of diverse cultures living and working side
by side.
Since first graders eat lunch at 12:30, we have a mid-morning
snack in the classroom. I begin a lesson on healthy foods by bringing in
a glass jar in which I have been collecting fat and grease. Then I collect
a sampling of food the children have brought in for snack. On brown butcher
paper I list the names of the foods and next to each a rubbing of it. Since
all food contains some water there will be a wet spot for each one. After
several hours we examine our chart. Foods with no or little fat will have
dried; however, foods containing more fat will have left a greasy spot onthe
paper. We then put happy faces next to healthy foods, and sad faces next
to unhealthy foods.
The next day we make several bowls of a healthy snack
we can all eat. Here's our recipe.
Healthy Party Mix
6 cups of plain popcorn
3 cups of cheerios
2 cups of unsalted pretzels
1 cup of raisins
1 cup of peanuts
Mix together and enjoy!!
