🥟✨⚽ Joe P. Eblen Intermediate School’s monthly Club Day on Nov. 21 gave students the chance to explore new skills, try new activities, and connect with classmates across grade levels.
Options ranged from sports and gaming to arts, STEM challenges, and the always-popular Cultural Cooking Club, which focused this month on Eastern European dishes. Parent volunteers joined the cooking club to demonstrate how to make borsch, cabbage rolls, and pierogies- giving students a hands-on way to learn about cultures represented in the school community.
“Our first session focused on Hispanic dishes like homemade tortillas and quesadillas,” said club sponsor and fifth grade math teacher Caitlin Carver. “Today we’re exploring Eastern European foods. Many kids had never tried these dishes, and others were excited because it represents their family’s culture.”
Club members have broadened their palates and gotten interested in cooking for themselves and their families at home.
“The club teaches you how to cook and try more things instead of eating the same foods,” said Peyton, a sixth grader. “It’s really good and really fun.”
But the cooking club was just one piece of a vibrant schoolwide afternoon where students were active, engaged, and excited to learn in new ways. From soccer to pickleball to strategy games to rodeo, Club Day had something for everyone.
