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March is National Celery Month. Celery is a vegetable with many health benifits & myths surrounding it. There is a TON of Vitamin K in Celery, it will hold many of its nutritional values when cooked, it helps with your digestive tract, and supports cardiovascular health. …
After St. Patrick’s Day there is a chance you will have some left-over Corned Beef. If you do not have any left-over corned beef, there is a chance that your market still has it on sale this week – so you can always whip up …
This time of year people get crazy for all things green & McDonald’s has been capitalizing on that for years with their “Limited Time Only” Shamrock Shake. The main problem with the Shamrock Shake (and most things from the Double Arches to be honest) is the list of ridiculous hard-to-pronounce and not-good-for-you ingredients!
That is not to say that indulging in that kind of stuff every once in a while is not ok – but please don’t make a habit of it! If you put good stuff into your body, your body will be good to you! With the whole “you are what you eat” mentality going on here – we are doing a healthy version of the Shamrock Shake! Rich was really craving a Shamrock Shake and I was able to convince him to not pull through the drive-through the other day by promising him that I would make one at home Continue reading Shamrock Shake *Healthy Version
Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day! The week leading up to St. Patrick’s Day features Corned Beef, Potatoes, & Cabbage on fantastic sales at your local Grocery Store. It would be crazy to not take advantage of the great sale prices that you can …
It is still winter here in North-East Pennsylvania & a good hearty soup will help to warm you up any day. This soup is filling and delicious, while still being pretty healthy. Take any rainy or cold or depressing day that you might have which …
Today we invited more than a dozen local Community Leaders into our school for a Leadership Lunch. At the lunch, some of our Student Leaders had a chance to talk to these adults about what goes on at our school and how Steven Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective Leaders & The Leader in Me works within our school. The adults, in turn, had a chance to see how amazing our students are. By the end of our lunch, the Adults from the Community were standing to applaud our students as they were stating their admiration of what is going on in our school. In addition to being so impressed with our school and students, some of our adults were practically giving 5th and 6th Graders Job Offers!
Seeing our students lead not only today during our lunch, but also every day in ways beyond the maturity of what many people think of from a “tween” nearly brings tears to my eyes. These students are going to go far. Continue reading Proud to Teach