RTS Middle School students bake bread for C.H.O.W.
A lot of Southern Tier families will enjoy fresh homemade bread with their Thanksgiving meals, courtesy of Richard T. Stank Middle School students!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009, Paula Gray from King Arthur Flour Company visited the middle school to teach 6th and 7th grade students how to bake bread. SEE PICTURES FROM THE ASSEMBLIES. Mrs. Gray's baking assistants during the first assembly were Ian Lupole, Kate Meade and Kory Harder; second assembly assistants were Linnea Kolanda, Jacob Jackowsky and Katie Kitchen.
As they left school that day, each student was given a bread-baking kit containing all the ingredients necessary to bake two loaves of bread. (Pictured below - Family and Consumer Sciences Club members making the bread kits. Click any picture to see a larger version)
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Their assignment: bake two loaves - keep one at home to enjoy and bring the other back to school to be donated to the Community Hunger Outreach Warehouse (C.H.O.W.)
On November 23, students - who had spent hours over the weekend applying their newly-acquired baking skills - returned with 209 loaves of bread!!
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"C.H.O.W. was very excited about this project and the donation," said RTS Middle School Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) teacher Charlene Reagan. "The donated bread filled eight large boxes, which nearly completely filled the C.H.O.W. van."
Mrs. Reagan credited the King Arthur Flour Co., Wegman's, and her Family and Consumer Sciences Club members for the success of the project. "Wegman's donated bags for us to fill with supplies for each student. FACS Club members filled the bags and distributed them to students as they left school November 18, and helped to collect the loaves of bread students brought back," Reagan said.
Photos by Charlene Reagan and Roland Doig
Here's a link to the King Arthur Flour education website where you can watch some videos of the actual assembly: http://www.kingarthurflour.com/baking/life-skills-baking.html