5th Grade Cooking for the Haitian Food for Haitian Lives Project

The Haitian Food for Haitian Lives Project is a project for Haiti that takes place at Cornerstone Learning Community , because Haiti had a 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

'' So for the cooking we, um, we cooked the carrots when we were on the playground, when we came in the carrot cooker had boiled all over the place (well not everywhere).

We got all the other cans like peas,beans,corn stuff like that, we had this really terrible can opener so we had to use Mr. Jason's knife. two people (Eathan and I) cut ourselves because the can's lids were really, really sharp.

So we needed to make onions for the dressing (because we were making Haitian salad), so some people went out side to cut them, they had goggles on because the onions made their eyes water.

While people inside made the dressing with olive oil,balsamic vinaigrette,parsley and stuff like that, then we put the onoins in.

We drizzled the dressing over the salad and mixed it up.

So then we were finished with the salad.

Some parents brought in some bake sale items like brownies. People loved it.'' Zachary Jackson said

On January 29th, 2010 we made 1400 dollars from selling beans&rice, Haitian salad, and plantains.

Behind the Scenes: Cooking for the Haitian Fundraiser

Local Private school leads Fundraiser to help-Haiti-heal!

Cornerstone Learning Community's 4th, 5th and 8th grade classes have performed a huge fundraiser on Friday, January 29th, to help-Haiti-heal!

The 4th grade (with the help of some parents and their teacher, Anmerie Small) lead a big canned food drive and cookedthe fried plantains right before the event took place. "Our aim was to make them taste just like the one's that get served at restaurants, and we did!" 4th grader Riley Bohnstengel stated. "I think that it was a great experience and now I know how to cook fried plantains!" Theo Scott said. "It was the taste of teamwork" Riley added. "first we got got whole, fresh plantains, then we stripped them and cut them in to bite sized pieces and then fried them. When that was finished, we got paper plates and squished them into a more "pancake" form, then some salt and they were off to the serving table!!!" 4th grader Thomas Einerson explained.

The 5th graders made the salad and made all the media to advertise for the event. "We made the salad using green beans, carrots, onions, parsley, pea's, corn and then the dressing (which we made too)" 5th grader Peter Sass said. "Well it's for a good cause and I feel like it's Haiti's gain, my gain because I enjoyed doing it and had fun, and I'm sure Haiti is going to like the $1,400 we raised for their recovery. So over all I think that it was fun, helpful, exiting, and it's a great way to stay in shape!" 5th grader Jay Fillmore added. The 8th grade made the vegetarian and non-vegetarian rice and beans as the main coarse the day before, just like the 5th graders.

The fundraiser took place on the hill at 12:00 pm on Friday, January 29th at Cornerstone Learning Community. All of the raised money raised went to Red Cross and Doctors without Boarders. "We all went home thinking about what a big difference we had made and about the lives we saved" Zachary Jackson said...