Mrs. Raper

We have been picking lettuce from our Renaissance Garden with Mrs. Kinnamon and yesterday were able to get our first radishes!

Tomorrow we'll have some 3rd grade salad. Yum!

We had a visit from Laura Frazier and one of her Jacob sheep this week.

Laura is a local fiber artist who is working with our class during our economics unit. She will be discussing using renewable resources, setting a price for products and other economic principles. For now, the kids loved seeing the sheep and learning about shearing!

Our class visited the Cobblestone Market yesterday to talk with some vendors about economic principles. It was interesting to learn about soap making, jam and preserves, goat milk products, and bread baking. The students met a baby pig that was four days old!

Our students asked questions such as, "What are the byproducts of soap-making?" and "What expenses do you have when you make jam?" They learned that the cost of the glass jars that the jam is packaged in, plays a role in the price of the jam.

Students shopped individually but we also bought a loaf of quinoa maple bread and blueberry preserves to try in class. Yummy!