Thanks!

I wanted to thank all of the students for a wonderful school year. Your energy, enthusiasm, desire to learn and ability to form a strong and entertaining community in the classroom made the year special. I hope that everyone has a summer doing the things you enjoy and spending time with your family.

See you all in September!

Iron Chef

Iron Chef Menu

*Sun dried tomato, Swiss chard and Asian green Ravioli with a hint of blackberry

*Amazing mixed greens, radish and broccoli salad with a blackberry vinaigrette dressing

*Blackberry crepes

Today featured Stage 1: Preparation of the first annual SES Iron Chef competition. In our class, each student was given a garden plot this spring to cultivate. The garden squares are approximately one square foot that each student was charged with planting, weeding and watering. We are still trying to find the best way to have 30 students garden a 2 x 13 strip of land but we are learning and having fun as we go. I was excited along with the students to see crops take off and grow. Some were successes, others not. Some plots had a recent surge in tomatoes - volunteers from last year's crop. Today, many of the plots were harvested and students will be preparing the soil for the next crop.

In addition to our garden plots, we harvested and froze blackberries in the fall and used the solar dryer to prepare sun dried tomatoes. Eggs were brought in by students who have chickens or are taking care of a few nice hens. Honey was brought in from a a student's hive.

Several items were purchased/bought and these include:
*Milk which was used in the crepe batter and the making of our mozzarella cheese
*Sugar for the crepe batter
*wheat berries which was ground into flour for the crepe batter and ravioli dough

General items of use from the community kitchen included salt, vinegar and oil.

I think that we had an enjoyable time gardening and preparing this meal. The final touches will be put on tomorrow as our dishes are judged at Sunnystock. Please come by at 12:30 and stay through the family picnic after school.

For photos of the preparation of this meal, please click garden