Mt. Horeb Students Cook Up Help for Sandy Victims

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.

"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.