Cooking Kids

For interested 'top chefs' out there, a new afterschool cooking and gardening program will be offered at OCS beginning in October. Sessions will take place in one month blocks and are comprised of a series of 4 afterschool lessons (3 cooking/1 gardening) to different groups of students. The first session for the month of October will be open to 7th/8th graders. They will cook three different types of cuisines -- Latin, Asian and African/American and will start building a container herb garden in the patio area behind the community hall. The cuisines are reflective of our school community and the herb garden will link directly to those cuisines and (hopefully) strengthen student’s understanding of the link between garden and kitchen, nature and nutrition.

In November, the program will be offered to 1st/2nd graders and then 3rd/4th graders will try it out in February. Come March our 5th/6th graders will be hard at work and our kindergarten students will be planting, chopping and cooking in May.

Space is limited and there is a fee. For children K-3 the program will be $60 per child and for children in 4th - 8th grade, the cost will be $75. Sign up sheets will be available in the front office as well as downloadable online in the parent tab of the OCS website.

It should be a tasty, interesting and fun program.