Dear CKS Families,

This week our students enjoyed their last visit with the staff of Common Roots. Students learned about kale and how to make smoothies from veggies and fruit. A smoothie is appropriate for the heat we are experiencing this week! Be sure to pack sunscreen in your child(ren)’s backpack. More importantly, last Saturday 2nd graders received their First Communion, and 6th and 7th graders were confirmed on Tuesday. Our 2nd-grade families gathered to support their son or daughter who received the sacrament of Holy First Communion co-celebrated by Fr. Baker and Fr. Marchand at Christ the King Church. Our 6th and 7th graders received the sacrament of Confirmation along with other parishes at St. Joseph's Cathedral by Bishop Coyne. I want to acknowledge Mr. Verdirame (2nd-grade teacher) and Mrs. Cade (Religion teacher & Director of Religious Education) for preparing our students for sacraments this week.

Best Regards,

Best Regards,

Dr. Dwyer

Try this refreshing recipe as a nutritious detox pick me up for breakfast or a cool-down refresher on a hot summer day! Just prep ahead and freeze ingredients in small batches to enjoy as an electrolyte replacement. You can also pour all the blended ingredients into ice pop forms. Freeze, and enjoy a pick me up on a stick. Add strawberries and watermelon or other new flavors to this recipe.

Ingredients:

A heaping handful of kale (baby kale is less bitter, for mature kale simply remove the stem and leaf rib.

Massaging the kale opens the leaf cells promoting easier digestion and less burping)

2 ½ cups water

½ fresh organic apple sliced, skin on

5” of organic cucumber sliced, peel on

1 heaping TBL ginger root grated OR half an organic lemon zested and the juice (seeds removed) OR

both

(PreK-K juice and zest from a whole lemon, no ginger, a TBSP maple or double the apple)

Freeze together overnight:

½ fresh apple sliced with skin on

5” cucumber slices, peel on

1 heaping TBL ginger root grated OR half a lemon zested, and juice (seeds removed)

Food Prep: Pre-package and freeze the apple, cucumber, ginger and lemon juice and zest. One package needed for a taste test for each class of 20.

Using a Vitamix or strong blender: add liquid ingredients, then the frozen ingredients. Add a handful of massaged and de-stemmed kale. Makes 20+ refreshing ounces. Add some ice if you want to make a summer slushie.

Serve cold as a great pick me up and detox morning juice! Or pour into popsicle containers and freeze.

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In the PreK-K classes, we learned to remove the kale ribs and feed them to cows, pigs, and chickens and to massage or “burp” the kale leaf so it wouldn’t burp us. We also learned how to make lemon zest. Did you know that a cucumber is a fruit and one a day provides most of the daily vitality we need? Cucumber electrolytes will keep us hydrated and feeling uplifted after biking, swimming, and enjoying summer adventures.

We at Common Roots wish you a happy, healthy, adventure-filled summer. We hope that you’ll keep cucumbers on hand, visit our farm at South Village, and If you like to stargaze or moon watch you can support your night vision and energy by sipping on this recipe as you relax and wonder beneath the blanket of the evening sky.

Calling all parents! We are looking for volunteers for our annual Spring Challenge (Fun Run and Field Days). The event is on Friday, May 27th and we need volunteers to help make this event a great success. We appreciate any help you can give, whether it be all day or part of the day. We ask that you sign up by Friday, May 20th so we can organize all of our volunteers. Thank you!

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Mrs. Cade displayed the 3rd-grade project of students’ artwork at the front entrance of the school. Students wrote their names and designed a fish symbol representing Christ’s presence in their lives and connecting it to a passage in the Gospel of Matthew.

CKS beat Shelburne 11-10:

Owen Audette had 1 hit and came in relief to shut down the Shelburne offense, and got the win on the mound.

Nicholas Handy walked 3x and scored the winning run.

Sam Murphy got one hit.

Nolan Byrne got 2 at-bats and reached base both times.

Jack Cislo went 1-3 and scored once.

CKS beat Brown’s River 16-7:

Owen Audette went 2-3 and scored 3 times.

Nick Handy walked 2x and scored twice.

Jack Cislo went 2-4 and scored once.

Timmy Hunt went 1-1 and scored.

Student Riddle: What gets sharper the more you use it?

Trivia Question of the Week: Which animal has no vocal cords?

Send your best guesses to CKSTRIVIA@gmail.com and please include the name /grade of the person(s) submitting the answer [for parent answers, include the grade(s) of your student(s)]. For student responses, please indicate whether you helped your student with the answer, so we can recognize both assist and w/o assist categories. As always, no Googling, just noodling! Good luck, CKS!

Deadline for submissions to The Cardinal's Nest: Wednesday, 1:00 p.m. to Dr. Dwyer

"May grace and peace be yours in abundance.”

(1 Peter 1:3)