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Category: Schoolwide

  • Kwanzaa Salad – Superfood Recipe Lesson

    RECIPE Ingredients: Yield: 6-8 servings 1 2 pounds seedless grapes 3 oranges 4 kiwi fruit 1 can diced peaches (15 ounce) 1 can pineapple chunks (20 ounce) 1 cup coconut flakes 1 lime Directions: 1. Peel kiwi and cut into small bite size pieces. 2. Peel oranges and separate them into sections. 3. Cut grapes…

  • Parents ask: Can we have healthy food for literacy night?

    Listen to Parents Editor’s note: Parents and families and school all say they’d like healthy food at family and school events, such as back-to-school day and literacy night. The problem is how to pay for it, and how to plan for it. At Ashley Elementary, the least expensive food to provide is pizza and lemonade.…

  • Healthy Food at the Holiday Bazaar

    Some stories don’t happen on paper or in a video.   They happen as a real-live event.  We’ve seen many times how Eat Your Radio students can make a difference in how schools choose to be healthy.  Here’s one story about that.   Once upon a time at a Denver public school, the “Family Days”…

  • Chicken Salad (W)rap

    Ashley 5th Graders learn  to make a tasty and healthy Chicken Salad Rap, with their teachers Mr. Herd and Mr. Zwick.  They make a song about it, too! Recipe: My Pyramid Chicken Salad Wrap INGREDIENTS 1 – 2 lb. seedless grapes 1 – 2 lb. romaine lettuce, bagged 8 oz. plain yogurt 12 6 whole…

  • Corn and Bean Salad for YOU!

    Ashley 5th graders make a corn and bean salad with their teachers. 

  • Humming for Hummus

    Ashley 4th and 5th graders learn how to make Hummus with teacher Mr. Zwick.  

  • Kwanzaa Salad Celebrates Family

    Ashley 5th graders talk about the meaning of the Kwanzaa Holiday and what it’s like to make a Kwanzaa Salad in class.

  • Student Reporters Awarded Eat Your Radio CDs, DVDs and Wristbands

        This year KGNU provided all 45 5th graders at Ashley Elementary with a combination DVD/CD that contains the songs and announcements and movies they helped create this year. The 10 student reporters at Swansea received a CD of their work as well.  Eatyourradio decided to provide these CDs and DVDs so that even…

  • Superfoods – Apples at Ashley

    Superfoods are natural foods high in vitamins, minerals, fiber and other healthy nutrition.  In this video, Ashley 5th graders encourage classmates to enjoy apples in the school lunchroom on a Superfoods Day that features Miss Anne Wilson, the Superfoods Lady, dressed up in her apple costume.  Ashley broadcast the audio portion of this presentation during…

  • Walk to School Day

    Students at Ashley Elementary encourage friends and family to join in for national Walk to School Day.  The audio version of these announcements broadcast throughout the school on the morning announcements, and here they are as videos for Eat Your Radio.  This was also part of “Bike to School” Day. Ashley 5th grade students featured:…