Holiday Shopping with Transitions Transitions is preparing for the holiday season! Each class will have the opportunity to participate in a student gift exchange and to buy a gift for a family member or friend. Students that choose to participate in the gift exchange will learn who shopped for them at our holiday party on Thursday, December 23. Be on the lookout for an email being sent home next week that has more details! Ciao for Now to Chow at Taste Buds The Page cohort had their final cooking classes at Taste Buds Kitchen and Cooking School in Chelsea. The students worked alongside two professional teaching chefs for 9 weekly sessions of gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free recipes. Students scooped batter for mamón, whipped egg whites for cloud eggs, melted and drizzled chocolate for chocolate strawberry scones, rolled dough for sugar cookies, chopped vegetables for colorful corn salsa, sliced apples for apple cinnamon fries, cracked eggs for masa real, blended ingredients for mango sago, and got creative with decorating their finale dish of buttercream frosting cupcakes. It was a great experience to prep, cook, and bake in a professional kitchen. Though their time with the Taste Buds chefs has come to an end, Page students will continue to don their aprons throughout the semester! Related service providers George (OT), John (counselor), and Suzy (speech & language therapist) will continue to support students' cooking and baking skills in the Transitions Kitchen. Additionally, the cohort will have opportunities to practice teamwork while they search for and read recipes, make shopping lists, and shop at grocery stores for ingredients. We look forward to continuing our fun, food-focused Mondays. Real World Math Students have been excited to learn both in the classroom and out in the community. Classes have been focusing on banking, budgeting, and comparing prices. Students have been making biweekly trips to banks near Transitions and have been able to open up new accounts, reactivate old ones and check their balance. Students took trips to the local grocery store to compare prices, estimate total costs by rounding up to the next dollar and calculate change due. Classes have also had the opportunity to purchase items for the Mindful Nutrition classes! During these community trips, students have also been able to practice navigation skills and make safety phone calls. A highlight for many students has been receiving their internship paychecks! They are able to practice depositing at the ATM machines or with a teller. In the upcoming weeks, students will further practice their budgeting and purchasing skills during our Transitions holiday trip. Here are a few pictures and moments from the past few weeks! -Jeremy Burgess Transitions Head Math Teacher Cultural Cuisines It's another exciting week in the Transitions kitchen with students learning about dishes from various cultures. For November and December, the curriculum theme is “My Culture”. Students continue to prepare for life after Transitions as well as become more independent presently with meal prep, by practicing here in Mindful Nutrition. They are also still learning how to safely use kitchen tools and appliances as well as have the correct measurements for recipes as they make dishes that take their special diets into consideration. An interesting lesson they have also been learning is how to modify a given recipe when certain ingredients are unavailable or when they need to make more or less servings. All these skills require continuous practice and we encourage families to try some of these recipes at home with students. Some recipes students have done so far include making arepas, mofongo, mangu, tostones, maduros and festivals. In the coming weeks we will be trying our hands at making more recipes from other cultures; stay tuned! Today we are sharing a recipe for tostones, and scrambled eggs that students made during Mindful Nutrition, as well as some highlights of students making a complete breakfasts with these dishes. - Nefertari and Nina Mindful Nutrition
Alumni Association Holiday Trivia Friday, December 10th 4:30pm - 5:00pm Do you love the holiday season - listening to music, watching movies, decorating, shopping for gifts? Put all your holiday love to the test by joining us for trivia! Click HERE to register ($10) Thanksgiving Party |
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