Crunchy Kale Chips..

Ingredients:
one bunch organic curly kale
4 TBS olive oil
2 TBS sprouted chia powder
several pinches celtic sea salt

Step 1 
Wash Kale

Step 2
Rip up kale in bite size pieces

Step 3
Place kale in salad spinner

Step 4
Everyone gets a turn to spin the kale!

Step 5
If kale is still moist, lay it out on a cloth to dry some more

Step 6
Add olive oil, sea salt, and sprouted chia powder




Don't forget an extra pinch of salt!

Step 7
Gently massage ingredients into kale





Step 8
Spread kale out evenly on a baking sheet and bake in an oven at 275 degrees for 30 minutes, turning every 10 minutes

STEP 9
At lunch we go over the process of how we made our meal together and thank everyone for helping. We discussed how kale is rich in calcium and great for our growing bones.  Kale also helps keep us cool and energized in the Summer. 


Everyone says "more please!"

Play-doh planets!

Composting
Mr. Ben and the kids tended the compost pile and fed our friend the rhino beetle 'Cheya' with our lunch scraps.

Art Class

When children 'play' with paint they learn:

*to develop their imagination and creativity
*hand-eye coordination
*to distinguish and purposely create shapes
*to express feelings and ideas
*that their ideas have value
*relationships of space and size (math)
*concepts of symmetry balance and design (math)
*how colors mix to make new colors (science)

A beautiful meal
The kids help prepare a blanched greens salad and butterfly cucumbers.  They love their blanched veggies with a simple drizzle of organic flax oil and ume plum vinegar.

Music class
Liam's Uncle Preston came for a visit from NYC and led us all in a wonderful music class at circle time... with a few John Prine songs too!