This Week in the Tulip Room

It was a short week, but a busy one! We had a student led presentation on (edible) layers of the earth, as well as several “project based learning” projects that were turned in (presented), then our first ever student led lunch and a rocket. The first lunch seems to have gone pretty well. With such a small oven we encountered a bit of a backup that made us practice our best patience, as well as a lesson on communal purchasing/cooking and not wasting food. Each week your child will come home with an envelope to contribute towards the lunch, please try to make your contribution.  All children cooked a pizza this week and I believe all children will choose to participate in cooking their lunch. If after they cook it and taste it and decide they don’t care for it we will help them deal with that in a way that doesn’t involve the garbage can. (Look for leftovers to come home to mom and dadJ )

Speaking of lunch I just want to remind everyone that we are a Lunchable free school. I thought I should send you some research about this and learned that Uncrustables are almost as bad for you as Lunchables.  The Lunchables receive a nutrition rating of 5 (on a 100 point scale) and the Uncrustables got a 6 or 7. Wow! Throw in a peanut butter sandwich instead, or get them talking about what they might like to have in their lunch, while trying to have fun, try new things and meet all the food pyramid guidelines.

Here’s an article about the Lunchable rating:

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