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Mt. Horeb Students Cook Up Help for Sandy Victims
Fourth-graders bake up a fundraiser that all the students want to help.
As a steady line of Mt. Horeb School students waited during lunch Friday to purchase pretzels, cinnamon or banana bread slices, fourth-graders Troy Gatto and Sunwoo Park scrambled to exchange the students' cash for bread.
Of course, this bread wasn't from some store or area bakery: the students had made it themselves as a project that followed a brief study of bread.
Teacher Susanne Sage said a group of fourth-grade students in an interest cluster studying "The Wonder of Bread" envisioned something more than a treat after learning more about it.
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"In the interest cluster, they learned about baking bread and that it's a life skill," Sage said.
The students decided to sell their breads during Friday's lunches, donating all proceeds to Hurricane Sandy Relief. The students gave up recesses and stayed after-school making the bread from scratch, Principal William Kimmick said.
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