Baking at Schools

~Monica's Addition~
My mom, who is a kindergarten teacher, came up with the idea to bake with her kindergartners. This class project has the potential to help areas that have a high amount of hunger even more than it helps my mom's class.

This project helps the children in three ways: it teaches them math and science in a fun, creative way; it teaches the kids, and by extension their parents, cheap, easy ways to make food; and on the day of the project, it sends kids home from school with their own snack.

One important thing that my mom told me is that this is similar to the motto "give a man a fish and feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for his life" in that by teaching kids how to bake food at an early age, you get them thinking about cooking and baking rather than depending on alternative methods/snacks that may not be as healthy. You are giving the children a set of skills. Also, if you think of this in terms of food banks, some families who receive food from food banks do not know how to cook this food or use it for their families...