{"id":2921,"date":"2012-03-14T09:30:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T13:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foa.wpengine.com\/?post_type=news&p=2921"},"modified":"2012-09-03T20:12:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T00:12:07","slug":"upper-elementary-makes-lunch-a-community-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/news\/upper-elementary-makes-lunch-a-community-effort","title":{"rendered":"Upper Elementary Makes Lunch A Community Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"“It is fun to cook with the teachers.\u00a0 It’s kind of hard to plan.\u00a0 You know they like the food when everyone says, ‘It’s an awesome meal’.” – Walker<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Five Oaks Academy Upper Elementary classroom involves all of the members of its community in as many classroom activities as possible.\u00a0 One of these activities is the weekly community lunch.\u00a0 Each week, two Upper Elementary students plan a menu, organize, shop, and prepare a meal for the entire Upper Elementary class, visiting Lower Elementary students in the third grade, and the Five Oaks Academy Faculty.\u00a0 This exercise is an extension of the students’ practical life curriculum and is designed to foster independence, as well as expand the breadth of food experiences for the children.<\/p>\n

\"\"“It was fun and interesting.\u00a0 It was really yummy.”\u00a0\u00a0 – Maddie<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two student orchestrate an entire meal from its beginning stage of planning all the way through to the end stage of serving. \u00a0The chosen \u201cchefs\u201d research menus, make a shopping list, and go to the grocery store.\u00a0\u00a0Part of the grocery store list involves budgeting for items and looking at nutritional values. \u00a0The average meal servers over 50 people each week. \u00a0In guiding the students, the teachers emphasize a variety of cooking\u00a0methods and ethnic styles.<\/p>\n

\"\"“It is fun to go shopping and to experience cooking with other people that you normally would not have an opportunity to work with.”\u00a0 – Kaitlyn<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As the students research needs, they are asked to look at fresh and holistic ways to prepare the items. \u00a0This fall, for example, instead of boiling store bought noodles for fetuccini alfredo, the students made whole\u00a0wheat pasta by hand.<\/p>\n

\"\"“I Like to cook. \u00a0It was fun! \u00a0We made eggrolls, veggie fried rice, and sweet and sour chicken.” – Carson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“It is fun to cook with the teachers.\u00a0 It’s kind of hard to plan.\u00a0 You know they like the food when everyone says, ‘It’s an awesome meal’.” – Walker The Five Oaks Academy Upper Elementary classroom involves all of the members of its community in as many classroom activities as possible.\u00a0 One of these activities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":3370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}