In the classroom this week we watched a short film called Seeds of Our Ancestors from the Cultural Conservancy featuring Native youth from California talking about their relationship to Native foodways. We spotted 12 ingredients in the film that we’ve used during our unit this year.
For our final course of the year, the fourth and fifth grade chefs made a simple chia porridge with a huckleberry sauce and topped the dessert with edible flowers, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, cocoa powder, bee pollen, and mesquite powder—all ingredients native to the Americas.
Each table played the Ohlone staves game, a fun game of chance with extreme highs and lows. It was wonderful to see how supportive the chefs were with each other through robust competition. In our closing circle, everyone shared a favorite recipe from the fall and an appreciation about Edible Social Studies. Our fifth graders will be sorely missed!
