Sarah Spencer, a graphic recorder and artist from Phoenix, Arizona, visited CHP to draw our recipe for latkes as an illustration for our cookbook. Graphic recording is the art of listening and drawing a conversation or event in illustrations as […]
Just before break, we had another parent visit the classroom as a guest cook at CHP. Originally from Libya, Sara wanted to cook a traditional and healthy Libyan snack for the children. As a literacy component to our cooking program, […]
by Jen Swezey CHP parent, Marisol, originally from El Salvador, came to school on Tuesday to teach the children and teachers how to make pupusas! Pupusas are a traditional Salvadoran masa cake, made with a variety of fillings including, but […]
Our garden has been dictating our cooking projects so far this year, providing us with produce that is ripe and ready to cook with. However, what do you do when a cold snap is predicted, and there are still loads […]
Our snack menu continues to follow the season as we harvest the final veggies from our garden. One creation the children made was pickled vegetables. The children worked diligently slicing radishes and white turnips with plastic knives for pickling. We talked […]
Cooking the chips With fresh kale growing in the garden, Michael biked over to cut some kale leaves. Four children volunteered to wash and cut the kale. Some specialized words associated to this experiential job were “kale”, “rib”, “half”, and […]
Oh, what fun Elaine and Michael had biking to the Wednesday afternoon Farmers Market in downtown Boulder. First stop was our community garden plot to turn the water on for our garden beds. Then we were off, Burley in tow […]
The children and the teachers jumped right into cooking. Apples from our 120+ year-old-tree on the playground were gathered, washed and cooked down in a slow cooker, for applesauce. Zucchini was harvested from the CHP garden, and giant zucchini donated […]
On June 21st, the first day of summer, 5 CHP families met Elaine and Jen at the CHP community garden to harvest herbs and lettuce to make “First Day of Summer Salad”. It was already very hot at 9 am! […]
Will (Ruby’s dad) put his exceptional wood working skills to use to create a wonderful gate for the Children’s House Garden. Delphine, Gabriel (4) and Romain (7) joined Elaine and Michael at the garden today. Romain watered the garden beds […]
