Kolter Elementary Fifth Grade Students Cultivate Sweet Potatoes and Donate them to Stone Soup Pantry
Recently, Kolter Elementary School celebrated its Fourth Annual Sweet Potato Harvest where they dug up hundreds of pounds of sweet potatoes that they planted last spring. One year later, the now fifth graders harvested hundreds of pounds of sweet treasures; most of which they donated to Stone Soup Pantry. The largest pick of the day weighed approximately 9 pounds and was 14.5 inches long.
Kolter students were happy to donate more than half their harvest to Stone Soup Pantry. The Stone Soup AIDS Food Pantry is run by the Aids Foundation of Houston. It currently serves a weekly client base of about 400 needy people with advanced HIV disease or AIDS. The Pantry itself is able to provide dry goods and dairy products, but no fresh meats, fruits or vegetables.
“The excitement of spouting, growing, harvesting and then eating their crop will last for months,” said Kolter’s Outdoor Class Coordinator and parent, Angela Roth. Each student took a sweet potato home. Some brought back their sweet potatoes later that week for a sweet potato feast. The students served up goodies they made from their harvest. They enjoyed sweet potato muffins, cake, cheese cake, bread pudding, cookies, pie, cookies, cake roll, soup, chips, mashed, fries and quesadillas.
The project was a joint effort of Kolter’s Science Lab, the Garden and Pond Coordinator along with several parent volunteers.
The Kolter School’s magnet program provides an education in foreign languages and cultures for all students. Emphasis is placed on the values and ideals of global understanding and responsible citizenship. While children at Kolter learn new languages as a key means of communicating and problem solving, they also learn about the people and cultures of the world. It is through this understanding that we nurture critical and compassionate thinkers who will become informed participants in our local communities and leaders in our world markets. For more information about Kolter Elementary School’s magnet program, visit www.kolterelementary.org.
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