"Soup"er Second Graders!

My sister (Dona) excels at being a librarian, working with children and writing grants (among many other things).  She's been working at her elementary school this year to bring those three things together to teach 7- and 8-year-olds to make their own food.  Through her grant writing prowess  ("Farm to School") she organized a field trip last week to visit a Science Center where the students learning about where their food comes from.  This week the kiddos working with their teachers, a dietician, a chef and, of course, their favorite school librarian used the SIXTY(!) crockpots provided by the grant to make soup from scratch.  Each of the students will be taking home not only the memory of these experiences and the lessons learned but also their very own crockpot to continue their livelong learning (and soup-making!) at home.

How cool is that!

Next up - learning to make bread (using the bread machine).

~later, elementary school cooking consultant, tw