Our First Ride....

Week 8

This week we was a week of firsts! Before our workshop we visited our plot in the greenhouse. Our plants are growing and our lettuces actually look like lettuce! We harvested some of the more mature leaves. We all got to taste the fruit or in our case vegetables of our labor. Our in school workshop theme was "The Power of Greens." Ms. Jennifer Taylor from the Wellness Foundation came in to speak with us again. She spoke with us about the importance of green leafy vegetables and adding them to our diet. She spoke with us about how greens how so many vitamins and nutrients as well as proteins, carbohydrates and especially fiber!!! After our discussion Ms. Taylor taught us how to make a "green" smoothie using kale, spinach and fruit. She said green smoothies are a good way to get greens into our diet without having to eat tons of salad. For some of us it was the first time we had tried a green smoothie. It was delicious! Ms. Taylor brought a friend with her to our discussion. Antonia Demas, PhD joined us in the nutrition discussion. She told us a touching story of a boy in her town who was in a terrible accident which put him in a coma. His doctors had no hope he would ever come out of his coma and informed his mother to prepare to slowly allow him to die via starvation. His mother then saught the help of Dr. Demas who created a soup-like food substance to feed the boy. Through the use of these greens and all its nutrients/vitamins the boy recovered from the coma and is living his life to the fullest!

Our afterschool activity was another first. We went on our first bike ride! Sharon McCobb from the YMCA, certified personal trainer and avid cyclist, led us on a ride from Springs School to Louse Point.  It was a great first ride; it was flat with not many turns. However we learned we are part of traffic when we ride. We learned how to ride single-file and how to signal our turns. Some of us did not have bikes to ride. However the community came together and people have loaned and donated bikes for us to use.