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 … Read more

Food for Thought – From Swansea

 

1. Antonio Ramirez Hi, my name is Antonio Ramirez! Good morning to you all! One thing we learned about healthy food is that some vegetables or fruits help at least one part of your body. For example, the carrot helps your eyes.

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Hot Lunch vs Sack Lunch

Three years ago, Boulder Valley Schools hired the world renowned “Renegade Lunch Lady” Chef Ann Cooper, to make school lunches among the healthiest in the nation.  They even surpass the new USDA guidelines.  They’re free of additives and made from scratch by acclaimed local chefs who want kids to really like  healthy food.  More students do choose the hot lunches now than they did three years ago, when school food was full of sugar and additives and other junk.  But 60% of students still prefer packed lunches, and some of those packed lunches hold a lot of junk.  How do students think we can make healthy food be  more popular?

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Healthy Food For Thanksgiving

Can kids like healthy foods for Thanksgiving? Click these links to hear a 2-minute answer with a special song, from Ashley 5th graders Melody, Ronald, Ruth, Edgar, Anna, Omar, Thomas:.  Here are their healthy ideas.  Ashley student reporters learned their friends’ favorite vegetable  . . . and what they DON’T like . . . The 5th grades say that … Read more

Middle School Cooking Class – Breakfast Contest

In 2011, Centennial Middle School teacher Scott Griffith launched a cooking class, where students learned to cook in the regular cafeteria kitchen and shared the results of what they made.  Halfway through the class, the students competed in a breakfast menu cooking contest.  You can see the results above (note:  you need youtube enabled on … Read more