Category: Schools

  • 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…

  • Jump Rope in the Gym at Ashley

    Healthy eating and healthy exercise often go hand in hand. Jump roping is a great way to get exercise, as these Ashley Elementary Students show.  

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Junk Food at Swansea Elementary

    Listen (3 Minutes) Swansea students decided to look at the issue of junk food.  For this story, they interviewed their teachers and worked on the script together.

  • Gratitude at Thanksgiving – From Swansea

    LISTEN (3 Minutes) Here is a holiday story from Swansea Elementary students nd it’s about having gratitude. In addition, there is a focus on the pilgrim corn and bean salad and manners, which are part of the holiday time period nutrition classes.

  • 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…

  • “School lunch is fantabulous!”

    Sierra, a middle school student in Centennial’s first cooking class, explains how cooking food from scratch in the Centennial kitchen has given her more appreciation for school cooked hot lunch.

  • 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…